El Salvador vs Japan: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested

El Salvador
76,307 ha
in 2024
Japan
71,228 ha
in 2024
El Salvador rank
41st
Japan rank
44th

Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested over time

  • El Salvador
  • Japan
20.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100.0k120.0k196119922024

How they compare

El Salvador currently reports 76,307 ha against 71,228 ha in Japan, a difference of 5,079 ha.

That makes El Salvador's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.

El Salvador ranks 41st and Japan ranks 44th of 155 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, El Salvador averaged higher in 1 and Japan in 6.

Head to head by decade

Decade El Salvador Japan Difference Ahead
1960s 26,600 ha 91,356 ha 64,756 ha Japan
1970s 37,353 ha 86,410 ha 49,057 ha Japan
1980s 35,273 ha 106,229 ha 70,957 ha Japan
1990s 55,570 ha 95,965 ha 40,395 ha Japan
2000s 62,430 ha 89,690 ha 27,260 ha Japan
2010s 75,994 ha 81,700 ha 5,706 ha Japan
2020s 77,242 ha 76,806 ha 436.4 ha El Salvador

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sugar crops primary — area harvested, El Salvador or Japan?
El Salvador, at 76,307 ha against 71,228 ha in Japan as of 2024.
What is the difference in sugar crops primary — area harvested between El Salvador and Japan?
5,079 ha, with El Salvador ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for El Salvador and Japan?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do El Salvador and Japan rank globally for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
El Salvador ranks 41st and Japan ranks 44th of 155 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
200 places, 10,929 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.