Guinea vs Melanesia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Guinea
- Melanesia
How they compare
Melanesia currently reports 153,788 ha against 83,476 ha in Guinea, a difference of 70,312 ha.
That makes Melanesia's figure about 1.8 times Guinea's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Melanesia has been ahead every year.
Guinea ranks 13th and Melanesia ranks 6th of 113 countries.
Melanesia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Guinea | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,000 ha | 80,704 ha | 70,704 ha | Melanesia |
| 1970s | 9,511 ha | 94,292 ha | 84,781 ha | Melanesia |
| 1980s | 14,381 ha | 102,893 ha | 88,512 ha | Melanesia |
| 1990s | 32,536 ha | 106,807 ha | 74,271 ha | Melanesia |
| 2000s | 48,082 ha | 116,477 ha | 68,395 ha | Melanesia |
| 2010s | 49,446 ha | 141,001 ha | 91,555 ha | Melanesia |
| 2020s | 71,895 ha | 153,421 ha | 81,527 ha | Melanesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Guinea or Melanesia?
- Melanesia, at 153,788 ha against 83,476 ha in Guinea as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Guinea and Melanesia?
- 70,312 ha, with Melanesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Guinea and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Guinea and Melanesia rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Guinea ranks 13th and Melanesia ranks 6th 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.