Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) vs USSR: Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested

Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
3.67 million ha
in 2024
USSR
3.17 million ha
in 1991
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank
5th
USSR rank
3rd

Sugar Crops Primary — Area harvested over time

  • Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
  • USSR
01.0M2.0M3.0M4.0M196119922024

How they compare

Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) currently reports 3.67 million ha against 3.17 million ha in USSR, a difference of 506,760 ha.

That makes Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)'s figure about 1.2 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1961 it was USSR ahead.

Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 5th and USSR ranks 3rd of 29 groups.

Across the 4 decades both report, Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) averaged higher in 2 and USSR in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) USSR Difference Ahead
1960s 2.64 million ha 3.62 million ha 982,309 ha USSR
1970s 3.29 million ha 3.60 million ha 311,608 ha USSR
1980s 3.74 million ha 3.47 million ha 269,514 ha Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
1990s 3.97 million ha 3.23 million ha 744,880 ha Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sugar crops primary — area harvested, Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) or USSR?
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), at 3.67 million ha against 3.17 million ha in USSR as of 2024.
What is the difference in sugar crops primary — area harvested between Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) and USSR?
506,760 ha, with Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) and USSR?
31 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 1991.
How do Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) and USSR rank globally for sugar crops primary — area harvested?
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 5th and USSR ranks 3rd of 29 groups.
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.