Brazil vs Europe: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Brazil
- Europe
How they compare
Brazil currently reports 65,178 ha against 3,577 ha in Europe, a difference of 61,601 ha.
That makes Brazil's figure about 18.2 times Europe's.
Across all 57 years both countries report, Brazil has been ahead every year.
Brazil ranks 19th and Europe ranks 21st of 113 countries.
Brazil has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brazil | Europe | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 165,460 ha | 15,740 ha | 149,720 ha | Brazil |
| 1970s | 144,320 ha | 13,465 ha | 130,855 ha | Brazil |
| 1980s | 77,702 ha | 8,873 ha | 68,828 ha | Brazil |
| 1990s | 53,272 ha | 5,148 ha | 48,125 ha | Brazil |
| 2000s | 44,504 ha | 5,559 ha | 38,945 ha | Brazil |
| 2010s | 43,648 ha | 3,021 ha | 40,626 ha | Brazil |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Brazil or Europe?
- Brazil, at 65,178 ha against 3,577 ha in Europe as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Brazil and Europe?
- 61,601 ha, with Brazil ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Europe?
- 57 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2017.
- How do Brazil and Europe rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Brazil ranks 19th and Europe ranks 21st 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.