Papua New Guinea vs Rwanda: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita

Papua New Guinea
0.0135 ha per person
in 2024
Rwanda
0.0126 ha per person
in 2024
Papua New Guinea rank
2nd
Rwanda rank
3rd

Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita over time

  • Papua New Guinea
  • Rwanda
0.010.020.030.04196119922024

How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 0.0135 ha per person against 0.0126 ha per person in Rwanda, a difference of 0.0009 ha per person.

That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.

Papua New Guinea ranks 2nd and Rwanda ranks 3rd of 99 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Papua New Guinea averaged higher in 6 and Rwanda in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Papua New Guinea Rwanda Difference Ahead
1960s 0.0338 ha per person 0.0179 ha per person 0.0159 ha per person Papua New Guinea
1970s 0.0321 ha per person 0.0182 ha per person 0.0139 ha per person Papua New Guinea
1980s 0.0284 ha per person 0.0206 ha per person 0.0078 ha per person Papua New Guinea
1990s 0.0223 ha per person 0.0223 ha per person 0 ha per person Papua New Guinea
2000s 0.0169 ha per person 0.0177 ha per person 0.0008 ha per person Rwanda
2010s 0.0154 ha per person 0.012 ha per person 0.0034 ha per person Papua New Guinea
2020s 0.014 ha per person 0.0135 ha per person 0.0006 ha per person Papua New Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita, Papua New Guinea or Rwanda?
Papua New Guinea, at 0.0135 ha per person against 0.0126 ha per person in Rwanda as of 2024.
What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita between Papua New Guinea and Rwanda?
0.0009 ha per person, with Papua New Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Papua New Guinea and Rwanda?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Papua New Guinea and Rwanda rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested, per capita?
Papua New Guinea ranks 2nd and Rwanda ranks 3rd of 99 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Statizoid (derived), published as Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per capita
Unit
ha per person
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
100 places, 5,679 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

Sweet potatoes — Area harvested divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.