Papua New Guinea vs Sierra Leone: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per square kilometre
Papua New Guinea
0.3162 ha per square kilometre
in 2023
Sierra Leone
0.4674 ha per square kilometre
in 2023
Papua New Guinea rank
15th
Sierra Leone rank
12th
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per square kilometre over time
- Papua New Guinea
- Sierra Leone
How they compare
Sierra Leone currently reports 0.4674 ha per square kilometre against 0.3162 ha per square kilometre in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 0.1512 ha per square kilometre.
That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.5 times Papua New Guinea's.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.
Papua New Guinea ranks 15th and Sierra Leone ranks 12th of 99 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Papua New Guinea averaged higher in 4 and Sierra Leone in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Papua New Guinea | Sierra Leone | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.167 ha per square kilometre | 0.0732 ha per square kilometre | 0.0938 ha per square kilometre | Papua New Guinea |
| 1970s | 0.197 ha per square kilometre | 0.092 ha per square kilometre | 0.105 ha per square kilometre | Papua New Guinea |
| 1980s | 0.2157 ha per square kilometre | 0.0672 ha per square kilometre | 0.1485 ha per square kilometre | Papua New Guinea |
| 1990s | 0.2233 ha per square kilometre | 0.1775 ha per square kilometre | 0.0458 ha per square kilometre | Papua New Guinea |
| 2000s | 0.2403 ha per square kilometre | 0.4062 ha per square kilometre | 0.166 ha per square kilometre | Sierra Leone |
| 2010s | 0.2927 ha per square kilometre | 0.5242 ha per square kilometre | 0.2315 ha per square kilometre | Sierra Leone |
| 2020s | 0.3162 ha per square kilometre | 0.4248 ha per square kilometre | 0.1086 ha per square kilometre | Sierra Leone |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, per square kilometre, Papua New Guinea or Sierra Leone?
- Sierra Leone, at 0.4674 ha per square kilometre against 0.3162 ha per square kilometre in Papua New Guinea as of 2023.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested, per square kilometre between Papua New Guinea and Sierra Leone?
- 0.1512 ha per square kilometre, with Sierra Leone ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Papua New Guinea and Sierra Leone?
- 63 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
- How do Papua New Guinea and Sierra Leone rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested, per square kilometre?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 15th and Sierra Leone ranks 12th of 99 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Statizoid (derived), published as Sweet potatoes — Area harvested, per square kilometre. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.