Americas vs Madagascar: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Americas
- Madagascar
How they compare
Americas currently reports 279,429 ha against 150,429 ha in Madagascar, a difference of 129,000 ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 1.9 times Madagascar's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 9th and Madagascar ranks 8th of 26 groups.
Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Madagascar | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 445,802 ha | 56,347 ha | 389,454 ha | Americas |
| 1970s | 425,896 ha | 65,890 ha | 360,005 ha | Americas |
| 1980s | 327,058 ha | 90,036 ha | 237,021 ha | Americas |
| 1990s | 282,183 ha | 91,423 ha | 190,760 ha | Americas |
| 2000s | 281,334 ha | 111,106 ha | 170,228 ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 288,564 ha | 138,324 ha | 150,240 ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 259,786 ha | 151,473 ha | 108,313 ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Americas or Madagascar?
- Americas, at 279,429 ha against 150,429 ha in Madagascar as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Americas and Madagascar?
- 129,000 ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Madagascar?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Madagascar rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 9th and Madagascar ranks 8th of 26 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sweet potatoes — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.