Kenya vs Melanesia: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested

Kenya
134,900 ha
in 2024
Melanesia
47,271 ha
in 2024
Kenya rank
27th
Melanesia rank
12th

Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested over time

  • Kenya
  • Melanesia
25.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k125.0k196119922024

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 134,900 ha against 47,271 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 87,629 ha.

That makes Kenya's figure about 2.9 times Melanesia's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Melanesia ahead.

Kenya ranks 27th and Melanesia ranks 12th of 155 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Kenya averaged higher in 2 and Melanesia in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Kenya Melanesia Difference Ahead
1960s 20,319 ha 41,555 ha 21,236 ha Melanesia
1970s 29,242 ha 48,966 ha 19,724 ha Melanesia
1980s 43,061 ha 70,366 ha 27,305 ha Melanesia
1990s 51,642 ha 77,238 ha 25,596 ha Melanesia
2000s 55,430 ha 66,600 ha 11,170 ha Melanesia
2010s 77,054 ha 51,004 ha 26,050 ha Kenya
2020s 103,330 ha 47,889 ha 55,441 ha Kenya

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sugar crops primary — area harvested, Kenya or Melanesia?
Kenya, at 134,900 ha against 47,271 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
What is the difference in sugar crops primary — area harvested between Kenya and Melanesia?
87,629 ha, with Kenya ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Kenya and Melanesia?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Kenya and Melanesia rank globally for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
Kenya ranks 27th and Melanesia ranks 12th 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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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
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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.