Burundi vs Kenya: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Burundi
- Kenya
How they compare
Burundi currently reports 80,064 ha against 68,449 ha in Kenya, a difference of 11,615 ha.
That makes Burundi's figure about 1.2 times Kenya's.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Burundi ahead.
Burundi ranks 15th and Kenya ranks 18th of 113 countries.
Burundi has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Burundi | Kenya | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 61,667 ha | 27,111 ha | 34,556 ha | Burundi |
| 1970s | 64,500 ha | 33,102 ha | 31,398 ha | Burundi |
| 1980s | 87,640 ha | 42,430 ha | 45,210 ha | Burundi |
| 1990s | 106,300 ha | 35,790 ha | 70,510 ha | Burundi |
| 2000s | 126,350 ha | 64,410 ha | 61,940 ha | Burundi |
| 2010s | 84,079 ha | 63,554 ha | 20,525 ha | Burundi |
| 2020s | 90,980 ha | 58,297 ha | 32,683 ha | Burundi |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Burundi or Kenya?
- Burundi, at 80,064 ha against 68,449 ha in Kenya as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Burundi and Kenya?
- 11,615 ha, with Burundi ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Burundi and Kenya?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Burundi and Kenya rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Burundi ranks 15th and Kenya ranks 18th 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.