Madagascar vs Oceania: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Madagascar
- Oceania
How they compare
Oceania currently reports 158,426 ha against 150,429 ha in Madagascar, a difference of 7,997 ha.
That makes Oceania's figure about 1.1 times Madagascar's.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Oceania ahead.
Madagascar ranks 8th and Oceania ranks 11th of 113 countries.
Oceania has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Madagascar | Oceania | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 56,347 ha | 82,517 ha | 26,170 ha | Oceania |
| 1970s | 65,890 ha | 96,433 ha | 30,543 ha | Oceania |
| 1980s | 90,036 ha | 104,537 ha | 14,500 ha | Oceania |
| 1990s | 91,423 ha | 109,047 ha | 17,624 ha | Oceania |
| 2000s | 111,106 ha | 120,013 ha | 8,906 ha | Oceania |
| 2010s | 138,324 ha | 145,490 ha | 7,166 ha | Oceania |
| 2020s | 151,473 ha | 158,254 ha | 6,781 ha | Oceania |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Madagascar or Oceania?
- Oceania, at 158,426 ha against 150,429 ha in Madagascar as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Madagascar and Oceania?
- 7,997 ha, with Oceania ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Madagascar and Oceania?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Madagascar and Oceania rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Madagascar ranks 8th and Oceania ranks 11th 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.