Zambia vs Zimbabwe: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested over time
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
How they compare
Zambia currently reports 29,784 ha against 28,137 ha in Zimbabwe, a difference of 1,647 ha.
That makes Zambia's figure about 1.1 times Zimbabwe's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Zambia has been ahead every year.
Zambia ranks 28th and Zimbabwe ranks 29th of 113 countries.
Zambia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,156 ha | 130.67 ha | 2,025 ha | Zambia |
| 1970s | 2,610 ha | 544.5 ha | 2,066 ha | Zambia |
| 1980s | 3,230 ha | 451.7 ha | 2,778 ha | Zambia |
| 1990s | 22,700 ha | 1,383 ha | 21,317 ha | Zambia |
| 2000s | 37,611 ha | 14,608 ha | 23,002 ha | Zambia |
| 2010s | 48,644 ha | 26,220 ha | 22,424 ha | Zambia |
| 2020s | 57,767 ha | 29,211 ha | 28,555 ha | Zambia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — area harvested, Zambia or Zimbabwe?
- Zambia, at 29,784 ha against 28,137 ha in Zimbabwe as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — area harvested between Zambia and Zimbabwe?
- 1,647 ha, with Zambia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Zambia and Zimbabwe?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Zambia and Zimbabwe rank globally for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Zambia ranks 28th and Zimbabwe ranks 29th 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.