Argentina vs Uruguay: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Argentina
- Uruguay
How they compare
Argentina currently reports 8,918 ha against 8,462 ha in Uruguay, a difference of 456 ha.
That makes Argentina's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Argentina has been ahead every year.
Argentina ranks 42nd and Uruguay ranks 44th of 113 countries.
Argentina has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Argentina | Uruguay | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 38,511 ha | 14,086 ha | 24,425 ha | Argentina |
| 1970s | 37,807 ha | 14,172 ha | 23,635 ha | Argentina |
| 1980s | 28,819 ha | 15,000 ha | 13,819 ha | Argentina |
| 1990s | 19,929 ha | 6,725 ha | 13,204 ha | Argentina |
| 2000s | 16,626 ha | 6,905 ha | 9,721 ha | Argentina |
| 2010s | 12,429 ha | 8,185 ha | 4,243 ha | Argentina |
| 2020s | 9,642 ha | 8,452 ha | 1,190 ha | Argentina |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Argentina or Uruguay?
- Argentina, at 8,918 ha against 8,462 ha in Uruguay as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Argentina and Uruguay?
- 456 ha, with Argentina ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Argentina and Uruguay?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Argentina and Uruguay rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Argentina ranks 42nd and Uruguay ranks 44th 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.