Eastern Asia vs Myanmar: Sunflower seed — Area harvested

Eastern Asia
780,219 ha
in 2024
Myanmar
230,000 ha
in 2024
Eastern Asia rank
16th
Myanmar rank
16th

Sunflower seed — Area harvested over time

  • Eastern Asia
  • Myanmar
0500.0k1.0M1.5M196119922024

How they compare

Eastern Asia currently reports 780,219 ha against 230,000 ha in Myanmar, a difference of 550,219 ha.

That makes Eastern Asia's figure about 3.4 times Myanmar's.

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

Eastern Asia ranks 16th and Myanmar ranks 16th of 25 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Eastern Asia Myanmar Difference Ahead
1960s 64,556 ha 509.22 ha 64,046 ha Eastern Asia
1970s 147,150 ha 10,616 ha 136,534 ha Eastern Asia
1980s 948,488 ha 137,479 ha 811,009 ha Eastern Asia
1990s 807,664 ha 162,330 ha 645,334 ha Eastern Asia
2000s 1.01 million ha 595,752 ha 417,642 ha Eastern Asia
2010s 970,129 ha 460,056 ha 510,073 ha Eastern Asia
2020s 747,155 ha 232,322 ha 514,833 ha Eastern Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sunflower seed — area harvested, Eastern Asia or Myanmar?
Eastern Asia, at 780,219 ha against 230,000 ha in Myanmar as of 2024.
What is the difference in sunflower seed — area harvested between Eastern Asia and Myanmar?
550,219 ha, with Eastern Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Asia and Myanmar?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Eastern Asia and Myanmar rank globally for sunflower seed — area harvested?
Eastern Asia ranks 16th and Myanmar ranks 16th of 25 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sunflower seed — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Eastern Asia vs Myanmar: Sunflower seed — Area harvested. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 27 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sunflower-seed-area-harvested/eastern-asia/myanmar/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sunflower-seed-area-harvested/eastern-asia/myanmar/">Eastern Asia vs Myanmar: Sunflower seed — Area harvested</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Sunflower seed — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
119 places, 5,957 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.