Japan vs Zimbabwe: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Japan
- Zimbabwe
How they compare
Japan currently reports 31,800 ha against 28,137 ha in Zimbabwe, a difference of 3,663 ha.
That makes Japan's figure about 1.1 times Zimbabwe's.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.
Japan ranks 26th and Zimbabwe ranks 29th of 113 countries.
Japan has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Zimbabwe | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 262,433 ha | 130.67 ha | 262,303 ha | Japan |
| 1970s | 80,960 ha | 544.5 ha | 80,416 ha | Japan |
| 1980s | 64,470 ha | 451.7 ha | 64,018 ha | Japan |
| 1990s | 51,170 ha | 1,383 ha | 49,787 ha | Japan |
| 2000s | 40,970 ha | 14,608 ha | 26,362 ha | Japan |
| 2010s | 37,220 ha | 26,220 ha | 11,000 ha | Japan |
| 2020s | 32,320 ha | 29,211 ha | 3,109 ha | Japan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Japan or Zimbabwe?
- Japan, at 31,800 ha against 28,137 ha in Zimbabwe as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Japan and Zimbabwe?
- 3,663 ha, with Japan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Zimbabwe?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Japan and Zimbabwe rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Japan ranks 26th and Zimbabwe ranks 29th 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.