Americas vs Melanesia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Americas
- Melanesia
How they compare
Americas currently reports 279,429 ha against 153,788 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 125,641 ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 1.8 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 9th and Melanesia ranks 6th of 26 groups.
Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 445,802 ha | 80,704 ha | 365,098 ha | Americas |
| 1970s | 425,896 ha | 94,292 ha | 331,604 ha | Americas |
| 1980s | 327,058 ha | 102,893 ha | 224,165 ha | Americas |
| 1990s | 282,183 ha | 106,807 ha | 175,376 ha | Americas |
| 2000s | 281,334 ha | 116,477 ha | 164,857 ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 288,564 ha | 141,001 ha | 147,563 ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 259,786 ha | 153,421 ha | 106,364 ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Americas or Melanesia?
- Americas, at 279,429 ha against 153,788 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Americas and Melanesia?
- 125,641 ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Melanesia rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 9th and Melanesia ranks 6th 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.