Cuba vs Sierra Leone: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Cuba
- Sierra Leone
How they compare
Cuba currently reports 36,422 ha against 31,045 ha in Sierra Leone, a difference of 5,377 ha.
That makes Cuba's figure about 1.2 times Sierra Leone's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Cuba ahead.
Cuba ranks 25th and Sierra Leone ranks 27th of 113 countries.
Cuba has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cuba | Sierra Leone | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 55,222 ha | 5,286 ha | 49,936 ha | Cuba |
| 1970s | 66,200 ha | 6,642 ha | 59,558 ha | Cuba |
| 1980s | 45,720 ha | 4,850 ha | 40,870 ha | Cuba |
| 1990s | 64,234 ha | 12,815 ha | 51,419 ha | Cuba |
| 2000s | 64,547 ha | 29,323 ha | 35,224 ha | Cuba |
| 2010s | 51,734 ha | 37,835 ha | 13,899 ha | Cuba |
| 2020s | 35,778 ha | 30,741 ha | 5,037 ha | Cuba |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Cuba or Sierra Leone?
- Cuba, at 36,422 ha against 31,045 ha in Sierra Leone as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Cuba and Sierra Leone?
- 5,377 ha, with Cuba ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cuba and Sierra Leone?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Cuba and Sierra Leone rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Cuba ranks 25th and Sierra Leone ranks 27th 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.