Benin vs Equatorial Guinea: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Benin
- Equatorial Guinea
How they compare
Equatorial Guinea currently reports 19,150 ha against 12,318 ha in Benin, a difference of 6,832 ha.
That makes Equatorial Guinea's figure about 1.6 times Benin's.
The two have swapped places 13 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Benin ahead.
Benin ranks 37th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 34th of 113 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Benin averaged higher in 3 and Equatorial Guinea in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Benin | Equatorial Guinea | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,116 ha | 6,111 ha | 7,005 ha | Benin |
| 1970s | 14,782 ha | 6,150 ha | 8,632 ha | Benin |
| 1980s | 7,426 ha | 6,800 ha | 625.6 ha | Benin |
| 1990s | 8,708 ha | 12,440 ha | 3,732 ha | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2000s | 14,550 ha | 15,126 ha | 576.2 ha | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2010s | 10,884 ha | 18,361 ha | 7,477 ha | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2020s | 10,602 ha | 18,892 ha | 8,290 ha | Equatorial Guinea |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Benin or Equatorial Guinea?
- Equatorial Guinea, at 19,150 ha against 12,318 ha in Benin as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Benin and Equatorial Guinea?
- 6,832 ha, with Equatorial Guinea ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Benin and Equatorial Guinea?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Benin and Equatorial Guinea rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Benin ranks 37th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 34th 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.