Melanesia vs Uganda: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Melanesia
- Uganda
How they compare
Uganda currently reports 221,783 ha against 153,788 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 67,995 ha.
That makes Uganda's figure about 1.4 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Uganda has been ahead every year.
Melanesia ranks 6th and Uganda ranks 5th of 16 regions.
Uganda has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Uganda | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 80,704 ha | 162,111 ha | 81,407 ha | Uganda |
| 1970s | 94,292 ha | 466,370 ha | 372,078 ha | Uganda |
| 1980s | 102,893 ha | 378,272 ha | 275,379 ha | Uganda |
| 1990s | 106,807 ha | 483,506 ha | 376,698 ha | Uganda |
| 2000s | 116,477 ha | 555,500 ha | 439,023 ha | Uganda |
| 2010s | 141,001 ha | 417,403 ha | 276,402 ha | Uganda |
| 2020s | 153,421 ha | 258,357 ha | 104,935 ha | Uganda |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Melanesia or Uganda?
- Uganda, at 221,783 ha against 153,788 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Melanesia and Uganda?
- 67,995 ha, with Uganda ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Uganda?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and Uganda rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 6th and Uganda ranks 5th of 16 regions.
- 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.