Timor-Leste vs Viet Nam: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Timor-Leste
- Viet Nam
How they compare
Viet Nam currently reports 80,807 ha against 1,927 ha in Timor-Leste, a difference of 78,880 ha.
That makes Viet Nam's figure about 41.9 times Timor-Leste's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Viet Nam has been ahead every year.
Timor-Leste ranks 11th and Viet Nam ranks 8th of 16 countries.
Viet Nam has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Timor-Leste | Viet Nam | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,678 ha | 230,067 ha | 226,389 ha | Viet Nam |
| 1970s | 3,880 ha | 266,930 ha | 263,050 ha | Viet Nam |
| 1980s | 2,940 ha | 362,661 ha | 359,720 ha | Viet Nam |
| 1990s | 3,677 ha | 321,084 ha | 317,406 ha | Viet Nam |
| 2000s | 5,596 ha | 200,920 ha | 195,324 ha | Viet Nam |
| 2010s | 2,688 ha | 130,974 ha | 128,286 ha | Viet Nam |
| 2020s | 1,928 ha | 90,707 ha | 88,779 ha | Viet Nam |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Timor-Leste or Viet Nam?
- Viet Nam, at 80,807 ha against 1,927 ha in Timor-Leste as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Timor-Leste and Viet Nam?
- 78,880 ha, with Viet Nam ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Timor-Leste and Viet Nam?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Timor-Leste and Viet Nam rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Timor-Leste ranks 11th and Viet Nam ranks 8th 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.