Americas vs Viet Nam: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Americas
- Viet Nam
How they compare
Americas currently reports 279,429 ha against 80,807 ha in Viet Nam, a difference of 198,622 ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 3.5 times Viet Nam's.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Americas ahead.
Americas ranks 9th and Viet Nam ranks 8th of 26 groups.
Across the 7 decades both report, Americas averaged higher in 5 and Viet Nam in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Viet Nam | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 445,802 ha | 230,067 ha | 215,735 ha | Americas |
| 1970s | 425,896 ha | 266,930 ha | 158,966 ha | Americas |
| 1980s | 327,058 ha | 362,661 ha | 35,603 ha | Viet Nam |
| 1990s | 282,183 ha | 321,084 ha | 38,901 ha | Viet Nam |
| 2000s | 281,334 ha | 200,920 ha | 80,414 ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 288,564 ha | 130,974 ha | 157,590 ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 259,786 ha | 90,707 ha | 169,079 ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Americas or Viet Nam?
- Americas, at 279,429 ha against 80,807 ha in Viet Nam as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Americas and Viet Nam?
- 198,622 ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Viet Nam?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Viet Nam rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 9th and Viet Nam 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.