Cuba vs Europe: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Cuba
- Europe
How they compare
Cuba currently reports 36,422 ha against 3,577 ha in Europe, a difference of 32,845 ha.
That makes Cuba's figure about 10.2 times Europe's.
Across all 57 years both countries report, Cuba has been ahead every year.
Cuba ranks 25th and Europe ranks 21st of 113 countries.
Cuba has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cuba | Europe | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 55,222 ha | 15,740 ha | 39,482 ha | Cuba |
| 1970s | 66,200 ha | 13,465 ha | 52,735 ha | Cuba |
| 1980s | 45,720 ha | 8,873 ha | 36,847 ha | Cuba |
| 1990s | 64,234 ha | 5,148 ha | 59,086 ha | Cuba |
| 2000s | 64,547 ha | 5,559 ha | 58,988 ha | Cuba |
| 2010s | 52,465 ha | 3,021 ha | 49,444 ha | Cuba |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Cuba or Europe?
- Cuba, at 36,422 ha against 3,577 ha in Europe as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Cuba and Europe?
- 32,845 ha, with Cuba ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cuba and Europe?
- 57 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2017.
- How do Cuba and Europe rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Cuba ranks 25th 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.