India vs Papua New Guinea: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- India
- Papua New Guinea
How they compare
Papua New Guinea currently reports 142,854 ha against 111,866 ha in India, a difference of 30,988 ha.
That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 1.3 times India's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was India ahead.
India ranks 10th and Papua New Guinea ranks 9th of 113 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, India averaged higher in 5 and Papua New Guinea in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Papua New Guinea | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 174,283 ha | 75,634 ha | 98,648 ha | India |
| 1970s | 220,490 ha | 89,200 ha | 131,290 ha | India |
| 1980s | 193,770 ha | 97,700 ha | 96,070 ha | India |
| 1990s | 140,200 ha | 101,123 ha | 39,077 ha | India |
| 2000s | 125,100 ha | 108,813 ha | 16,287 ha | India |
| 2010s | 116,217 ha | 132,543 ha | 16,326 ha | Papua New Guinea |
| 2020s | 108,573 ha | 143,134 ha | 34,561 ha | Papua New Guinea |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, India or Papua New Guinea?
- Papua New Guinea, at 142,854 ha against 111,866 ha in India as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between India and Papua New Guinea?
- 30,988 ha, with Papua New Guinea ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Papua New Guinea?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do India and Papua New Guinea rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- India ranks 10th and Papua New Guinea ranks 9th 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.