Southern Asia vs Timor-Leste: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Southern Asia
- Timor-Leste
How they compare
Southern Asia currently reports 145,440 ha against 1,927 ha in Timor-Leste, a difference of 143,513 ha.
That makes Southern Asia's figure about 75.5 times Timor-Leste's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Southern Asia has been ahead every year.
Southern Asia ranks 12th and Timor-Leste ranks 11th of 26 groups.
Southern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Southern Asia | Timor-Leste | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 240,140 ha | 3,678 ha | 236,463 ha | Southern Asia |
| 1970s | 317,704 ha | 3,880 ha | 313,824 ha | Southern Asia |
| 1980s | 270,149 ha | 2,940 ha | 267,209 ha | Southern Asia |
| 1990s | 196,231 ha | 3,677 ha | 192,554 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2000s | 168,916 ha | 5,596 ha | 163,319 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2010s | 148,860 ha | 2,688 ha | 146,171 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2020s | 141,956 ha | 1,928 ha | 140,029 ha | Southern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Southern Asia or Timor-Leste?
- Southern Asia, at 145,440 ha against 1,927 ha in Timor-Leste as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Southern Asia and Timor-Leste?
- 143,513 ha, with Southern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Southern Asia and Timor-Leste?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Southern Asia and Timor-Leste rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Southern Asia ranks 12th and Timor-Leste ranks 11th of 26 groups.
- 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.