Angola vs Melanesia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Angola
- Melanesia
How they compare
Angola currently reports 200,311 ha against 153,788 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 46,523 ha.
That makes Angola's figure about 1.3 times Melanesia's.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Melanesia ahead.
Angola ranks 6th and Melanesia ranks 6th of 113 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Angola averaged higher in 3 and Melanesia in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Angola | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16,667 ha | 80,704 ha | 64,037 ha | Melanesia |
| 1970s | 18,000 ha | 94,292 ha | 76,292 ha | Melanesia |
| 1980s | 18,600 ha | 102,893 ha | 84,293 ha | Melanesia |
| 1990s | 21,659 ha | 106,807 ha | 85,148 ha | Melanesia |
| 2000s | 125,772 ha | 116,477 ha | 9,295 ha | Angola |
| 2010s | 166,620 ha | 141,001 ha | 25,619 ha | Angola |
| 2020s | 192,169 ha | 153,421 ha | 38,748 ha | Angola |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Angola or Melanesia?
- Angola, at 200,311 ha against 153,788 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Angola and Melanesia?
- 46,523 ha, with Angola ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Angola and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Angola and Melanesia rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Angola ranks 6th and Melanesia ranks 6th of 113 countries.
- 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.