Europe vs Sierra Leone: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Europe
- Sierra Leone
How they compare
Sierra Leone currently reports 31,045 ha against 3,577 ha in Europe, a difference of 27,468 ha.
That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 8.7 times Europe's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Europe ahead.
Europe ranks 21st and Sierra Leone ranks 27th of 26 groups.
Across the 6 decades both report, Europe averaged higher in 3 and Sierra Leone in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Europe | Sierra Leone | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15,740 ha | 5,286 ha | 10,454 ha | Europe |
| 1970s | 13,465 ha | 6,642 ha | 6,824 ha | Europe |
| 1980s | 8,873 ha | 4,850 ha | 4,023 ha | Europe |
| 1990s | 5,148 ha | 12,815 ha | 7,667 ha | Sierra Leone |
| 2000s | 5,559 ha | 29,323 ha | 23,764 ha | Sierra Leone |
| 2010s | 3,021 ha | 42,312 ha | 39,290 ha | Sierra Leone |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Europe or Sierra Leone?
- Sierra Leone, at 31,045 ha against 3,577 ha in Europe as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Europe and Sierra Leone?
- 27,468 ha, with Sierra Leone ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Europe and Sierra Leone?
- 57 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2017.
- How do Europe and Sierra Leone rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Europe ranks 21st and Sierra Leone ranks 27th of 26 groups.
- 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.