Democratic People's Republic of Korea vs Papua New Guinea: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested

Democratic People's Republic of Korea
42,159 ha
in 2024
Papua New Guinea
142,854 ha
in 2024
Democratic People's Republic of Korea rank
9th
Papua New Guinea rank
9th

Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time

  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • Papua New Guinea
050.0k100.0k150.0k196119922024

How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 142,854 ha against 42,159 ha in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a difference of 100,695 ha.

That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 3.4 times Democratic People's Republic of Korea's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Papua New Guinea has been ahead every year.

Democratic People's Republic of Korea ranks 9th and Papua New Guinea ranks 9th of 16 countries.

Papua New Guinea has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Democratic People's Republic of Korea Papua New Guinea Difference Ahead
1960s 9,278 ha 75,634 ha 66,357 ha Papua New Guinea
1970s 11,750 ha 89,200 ha 77,450 ha Papua New Guinea
1980s 15,750 ha 97,700 ha 81,950 ha Papua New Guinea
1990s 19,953 ha 101,123 ha 81,170 ha Papua New Guinea
2000s 26,801 ha 108,813 ha 82,012 ha Papua New Guinea
2010s 35,961 ha 132,543 ha 96,583 ha Papua New Guinea
2020s 42,007 ha 143,134 ha 101,127 ha Papua New Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Democratic People's Republic of Korea or Papua New Guinea?
Papua New Guinea, at 142,854 ha against 42,159 ha in Democratic People's Republic of Korea as of 2024.
What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Papua New Guinea?
100,695 ha, with Papua New Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Papua New Guinea?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Papua New Guinea rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
Democratic People's Republic of Korea ranks 9th and Papua New Guinea ranks 9th of 16 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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Democratic People's Republic of Korea vs Papua New Guinea: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 12 October 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sweet-potatoes-area-harvested/democratic-people-s-republic-of-korea/papua-new-guinea/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/sweet-potatoes-area-harvested/democratic-people-s-republic-of-korea/papua-new-guinea/">Democratic People's Republic of Korea vs Papua New Guinea: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
155 places, 8,909 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.