Portugal vs Tonga: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Portugal
- Tonga
How they compare
Portugal currently reports 954 ha against 671 ha in Tonga, a difference of 283 ha.
That makes Portugal's figure about 1.4 times Tonga's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Portugal ahead.
Portugal ranks 72nd and Tonga ranks 75th of 113 countries.
Portugal has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Portugal | Tonga | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,089 ha | 1,167 ha | 6,922 ha | Portugal |
| 1970s | 8,600 ha | 1,209 ha | 7,391 ha | Portugal |
| 1980s | 5,340 ha | 665 ha | 4,675 ha | Portugal |
| 1990s | 2,757 ha | 402.9 ha | 2,354 ha | Portugal |
| 2000s | 2,912 ha | 540.9 ha | 2,371 ha | Portugal |
| 2010s | 1,026 ha | 610.5 ha | 415.25 ha | Portugal |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Portugal or Tonga?
- Portugal, at 954 ha against 671 ha in Tonga as of 2017.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Portugal and Tonga?
- 283 ha, with Portugal ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Portugal and Tonga?
- 57 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2017.
- How do Portugal and Tonga rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Portugal ranks 72nd and Tonga ranks 75th 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.