Japan vs Mali: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Japan
- Mali
How they compare
Mali currently reports 38,026 ha against 31,800 ha in Japan, a difference of 6,226 ha.
That makes Mali's figure about 1.2 times Japan's.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.
Japan ranks 26th and Mali ranks 24th of 113 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Japan averaged higher in 6 and Mali in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Mali | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 262,433 ha | 5,067 ha | 257,367 ha | Japan |
| 1970s | 80,960 ha | 3,470 ha | 77,490 ha | Japan |
| 1980s | 64,470 ha | 1,962 ha | 62,508 ha | Japan |
| 1990s | 51,170 ha | 2,909 ha | 48,261 ha | Japan |
| 2000s | 40,970 ha | 8,621 ha | 32,349 ha | Japan |
| 2010s | 37,220 ha | 25,631 ha | 11,589 ha | Japan |
| 2020s | 32,320 ha | 35,565 ha | 3,245 ha | Mali |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Japan or Mali?
- Mali, at 38,026 ha against 31,800 ha in Japan as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Japan and Mali?
- 6,226 ha, with Mali ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Mali?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Japan and Mali rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Japan ranks 26th and Mali ranks 24th 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.