Madagascar vs South-Eastern Asia: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Madagascar
- South-Eastern Asia
How they compare
South-Eastern Asia currently reports 255,878 ha against 150,429 ha in Madagascar, a difference of 105,449 ha.
That makes South-Eastern Asia's figure about 1.7 times Madagascar's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, South-Eastern Asia has been ahead every year.
Madagascar ranks 8th and South-Eastern Asia ranks 10th of 113 countries.
South-Eastern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Madagascar | South-Eastern Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 56,347 ha | 832,480 ha | 776,132 ha | South-Eastern Asia |
| 1970s | 65,890 ha | 797,957 ha | 732,066 ha | South-Eastern Asia |
| 1980s | 90,036 ha | 811,500 ha | 721,464 ha | South-Eastern Asia |
| 1990s | 91,423 ha | 704,805 ha | 613,382 ha | South-Eastern Asia |
| 2000s | 111,106 ha | 542,457 ha | 431,351 ha | South-Eastern Asia |
| 2010s | 138,324 ha | 388,259 ha | 249,934 ha | South-Eastern Asia |
| 2020s | 151,473 ha | 274,082 ha | 122,609 ha | South-Eastern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Madagascar or South-Eastern Asia?
- South-Eastern Asia, at 255,878 ha against 150,429 ha in Madagascar as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Madagascar and South-Eastern Asia?
- 105,449 ha, with South-Eastern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Madagascar and South-Eastern Asia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Madagascar and South-Eastern Asia rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Madagascar ranks 8th and South-Eastern Asia ranks 10th 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.