Jamaica vs Mexico: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Jamaica
- Mexico
How they compare
Mexico currently reports 3,287 ha against 3,214 ha in Jamaica, a difference of 73 ha.
The two have swapped places 10 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Mexico ahead.
Jamaica ranks 54th and Mexico ranks 53rd of 113 countries.
Mexico has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Jamaica | Mexico | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,658 ha | 15,950 ha | 14,291 ha | Mexico |
| 1970s | 2,517 ha | 8,763 ha | 6,246 ha | Mexico |
| 1980s | 2,379 ha | 2,745 ha | 365.6 ha | Mexico |
| 1990s | 1,773 ha | 1,989 ha | 216 ha | Mexico |
| 2000s | 1,490 ha | 2,781 ha | 1,291 ha | Mexico |
| 2010s | 2,438 ha | 2,890 ha | 452 ha | Mexico |
| 2020s | 3,201 ha | 3,576 ha | 374.8 ha | Mexico |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Jamaica or Mexico?
- Mexico, at 3,287 ha against 3,214 ha in Jamaica as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Jamaica and Mexico?
- 73 ha, with Mexico ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Jamaica and Mexico?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Jamaica and Mexico rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Jamaica ranks 54th and Mexico ranks 53rd 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.