Cuba vs Japan: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Cuba
- Japan
How they compare
Cuba currently reports 36,422 ha against 31,800 ha in Japan, a difference of 4,622 ha.
That makes Cuba's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.
Cuba ranks 25th and Japan ranks 26th of 113 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Cuba averaged higher in 4 and Japan in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cuba | Japan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 55,222 ha | 262,433 ha | 207,211 ha | Japan |
| 1970s | 66,200 ha | 80,960 ha | 14,760 ha | Japan |
| 1980s | 45,720 ha | 64,470 ha | 18,750 ha | Japan |
| 1990s | 64,234 ha | 51,170 ha | 13,064 ha | Cuba |
| 2000s | 64,547 ha | 40,970 ha | 23,577 ha | Cuba |
| 2010s | 51,734 ha | 37,220 ha | 14,514 ha | Cuba |
| 2020s | 35,778 ha | 32,320 ha | 3,458 ha | Cuba |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Cuba or Japan?
- Cuba, at 36,422 ha against 31,800 ha in Japan as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Cuba and Japan?
- 4,622 ha, with Cuba ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cuba and Japan?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Cuba and Japan rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Cuba ranks 25th and Japan ranks 26th 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.