India vs Southern Asia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- India
- Southern Asia
How they compare
Southern Asia currently reports 145,440 ha against 111,866 ha in India, a difference of 33,574 ha.
That makes Southern Asia's figure about 1.3 times India's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Southern Asia has been ahead every year.
India ranks 10th and Southern Asia ranks 12th of 113 countries.
Southern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Southern Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 174,283 ha | 240,140 ha | 65,858 ha | Southern Asia |
| 1970s | 220,490 ha | 317,704 ha | 97,214 ha | Southern Asia |
| 1980s | 193,770 ha | 270,149 ha | 76,379 ha | Southern Asia |
| 1990s | 140,200 ha | 196,231 ha | 56,031 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2000s | 125,100 ha | 168,916 ha | 43,816 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2010s | 116,217 ha | 148,860 ha | 32,643 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2020s | 108,573 ha | 141,956 ha | 33,383 ha | Southern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, India or Southern Asia?
- Southern Asia, at 145,440 ha against 111,866 ha in India as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between India and Southern Asia?
- 33,574 ha, with Southern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Southern Asia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do India and Southern Asia rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- India ranks 10th and Southern Asia ranks 12th 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.