Jamaica vs Sri Lanka: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Jamaica
- Sri Lanka
How they compare
Sri Lanka currently reports 4,479 ha against 3,214 ha in Jamaica, a difference of 1,265 ha.
That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.4 times Jamaica's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Sri Lanka has been ahead every year.
Jamaica ranks 54th and Sri Lanka ranks 51st of 113 countries.
Sri Lanka has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Jamaica | Sri Lanka | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,658 ha | 15,414 ha | 13,755 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 1970s | 2,517 ha | 27,158 ha | 24,641 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 1980s | 2,379 ha | 14,361 ha | 11,982 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 1990s | 1,773 ha | 9,449 ha | 7,676 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 2000s | 1,490 ha | 7,007 ha | 5,517 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 2010s | 2,438 ha | 4,896 ha | 2,458 ha | Sri Lanka |
| 2020s | 3,201 ha | 4,228 ha | 1,027 ha | Sri Lanka |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Jamaica or Sri Lanka?
- Sri Lanka, at 4,479 ha against 3,214 ha in Jamaica as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Jamaica and Sri Lanka?
- 1,265 ha, with Sri Lanka ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Jamaica and Sri Lanka?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Jamaica and Sri Lanka rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Jamaica ranks 54th and Sri Lanka ranks 51st 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.