Japan vs Sierra Leone: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Japan
- Sierra Leone
How they compare
Japan currently reports 31,800 ha against 31,045 ha in Sierra Leone, a difference of 755 ha.
The two have swapped places 8 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.
Japan ranks 26th and Sierra Leone ranks 27th of 113 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Japan averaged higher in 6 and Sierra Leone in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Sierra Leone | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 262,433 ha | 5,286 ha | 257,147 ha | Japan |
| 1970s | 80,960 ha | 6,642 ha | 74,318 ha | Japan |
| 1980s | 64,470 ha | 4,850 ha | 59,620 ha | Japan |
| 1990s | 51,170 ha | 12,815 ha | 38,355 ha | Japan |
| 2000s | 40,970 ha | 29,323 ha | 11,647 ha | Japan |
| 2010s | 37,220 ha | 37,835 ha | 614.6 ha | Sierra Leone |
| 2020s | 32,320 ha | 30,741 ha | 1,579 ha | Japan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Japan or Sierra Leone?
- Japan, at 31,800 ha against 31,045 ha in Sierra Leone as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Japan and Sierra Leone?
- 755 ha, with Japan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Sierra Leone?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Japan and Sierra Leone rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Japan ranks 26th and Sierra Leone ranks 27th 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.