Benin vs Peru: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Benin
- Peru
How they compare
Peru currently reports 16,290 ha against 12,318 ha in Benin, a difference of 3,972 ha.
That makes Peru's figure about 1.3 times Benin's.
The two have swapped places 12 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Peru ahead.
Benin ranks 37th and Peru ranks 36th of 111 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Benin averaged higher in 2 and Peru in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Benin | Peru | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,116 ha | 13,609 ha | 493.78 ha | Peru |
| 1970s | 14,782 ha | 13,785 ha | 997 ha | Benin |
| 1980s | 7,426 ha | 12,767 ha | 5,342 ha | Peru |
| 1990s | 8,708 ha | 11,860 ha | 3,152 ha | Peru |
| 2000s | 14,550 ha | 13,100 ha | 1,450 ha | Benin |
| 2010s | 10,884 ha | 15,944 ha | 5,059 ha | Peru |
| 2020s | 10,602 ha | 15,869 ha | 5,267 ha | Peru |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Benin or Peru?
- Peru, at 16,290 ha against 12,318 ha in Benin as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Benin and Peru?
- 3,972 ha, with Peru ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Benin and Peru?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Benin and Peru rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Benin ranks 37th and Peru ranks 36th of 111 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.