Melanesia vs Middle Africa: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Melanesia
- Middle Africa
How they compare
Middle Africa currently reports 479,881 ha against 153,788 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 326,093 ha.
That makes Middle Africa's figure about 3.1 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Middle Africa has been ahead every year.
Melanesia ranks 6th and Middle Africa ranks 3rd of 16 countries.
Middle Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Middle Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 80,704 ha | 119,060 ha | 38,356 ha | Middle Africa |
| 1970s | 94,292 ha | 131,295 ha | 37,003 ha | Middle Africa |
| 1980s | 102,893 ha | 135,704 ha | 32,811 ha | Middle Africa |
| 1990s | 106,807 ha | 153,764 ha | 46,957 ha | Middle Africa |
| 2000s | 116,477 ha | 231,486 ha | 115,009 ha | Middle Africa |
| 2010s | 141,001 ha | 374,410 ha | 233,409 ha | Middle Africa |
| 2020s | 153,421 ha | 450,118 ha | 296,696 ha | Middle Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Melanesia or Middle Africa?
- Middle Africa, at 479,881 ha against 153,788 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Melanesia and Middle Africa?
- 326,093 ha, with Middle Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Middle Africa?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and Middle Africa rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 6th and Middle Africa ranks 3rd of 16 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.