Rwanda vs Uganda: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Rwanda
- Uganda
How they compare
Uganda currently reports 221,783 ha against 179,717 ha in Rwanda, a difference of 42,066 ha.
That makes Uganda's figure about 1.2 times Rwanda's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Uganda has been ahead every year.
Rwanda ranks 7th and Uganda ranks 5th of 111 countries.
Uganda has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Rwanda | Uganda | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 61,014 ha | 162,111 ha | 101,097 ha | Uganda |
| 1970s | 83,309 ha | 466,370 ha | 383,061 ha | Uganda |
| 1980s | 128,100 ha | 378,272 ha | 250,172 ha | Uganda |
| 1990s | 165,203 ha | 483,506 ha | 318,303 ha | Uganda |
| 2000s | 157,788 ha | 555,500 ha | 397,712 ha | Uganda |
| 2010s | 139,682 ha | 417,403 ha | 277,721 ha | Uganda |
| 2020s | 183,859 ha | 258,357 ha | 74,498 ha | Uganda |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Rwanda or Uganda?
- Uganda, at 221,783 ha against 179,717 ha in Rwanda as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Rwanda and Uganda?
- 42,066 ha, with Uganda ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Rwanda and Uganda?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Rwanda and Uganda rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Rwanda ranks 7th and Uganda ranks 5th of 111 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.