Madagascar vs Nigeria: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested

Madagascar
100,974 ha
in 2024
Nigeria
88,518 ha
in 2024
Madagascar rank
34th
Nigeria rank
35th

Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested over time

  • Madagascar
  • Nigeria
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How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 100,974 ha against 88,518 ha in Nigeria, a difference of 12,456 ha.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.1 times Nigeria's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Madagascar has been ahead every year.

Madagascar ranks 34th and Nigeria ranks 35th of 155 countries.

Madagascar has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Madagascar Nigeria Difference Ahead
1960s 18,682 ha 12,000 ha 6,682 ha Madagascar
1970s 30,844 ha 18,250 ha 12,594 ha Madagascar
1980s 54,496 ha 21,860 ha 32,636 ha Madagascar
1990s 62,093 ha 21,877 ha 40,216 ha Madagascar
2000s 75,415 ha 47,095 ha 28,320 ha Madagascar
2010s 94,057 ha 73,994 ha 20,064 ha Madagascar
2020s 101,200 ha 88,847 ha 12,353 ha Madagascar

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sugar crops primary — area harvested, Madagascar or Nigeria?
Madagascar, at 100,974 ha against 88,518 ha in Nigeria as of 2024.
What is the difference in sugar crops primary — area harvested between Madagascar and Nigeria?
12,456 ha, with Madagascar ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Madagascar and Nigeria?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Madagascar and Nigeria rank globally for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
Madagascar ranks 34th and Nigeria ranks 35th 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.