Barbados vs Melanesia: Sweet potatoes — Yield
Sweet potatoes — Yield over time
- Barbados
- Melanesia
How they compare
Barbados currently reports 27,604 kg/ha against 5,636 kg/ha in Melanesia, a difference of 21,968 kg/ha.
That makes Barbados's figure about 4.9 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Barbados has been ahead every year.
Barbados ranks 10th and Melanesia ranks 10th of 112 countries.
Barbados has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Barbados | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,775 kg/ha | 4,394 kg/ha | 3,381 kg/ha | Barbados |
| 1970s | 9,806 kg/ha | 4,766 kg/ha | 5,039 kg/ha | Barbados |
| 1980s | 10,297 kg/ha | 5,014 kg/ha | 5,283 kg/ha | Barbados |
| 1990s | 9,970 kg/ha | 5,030 kg/ha | 4,940 kg/ha | Barbados |
| 2000s | 19,367 kg/ha | 5,381 kg/ha | 13,987 kg/ha | Barbados |
| 2010s | 23,499 kg/ha | 5,558 kg/ha | 17,941 kg/ha | Barbados |
| 2020s | 27,183 kg/ha | 5,619 kg/ha | 21,564 kg/ha | Barbados |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — yield, Barbados or Melanesia?
- Barbados, at 27,604 kg/ha against 5,636 kg/ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — yield between Barbados and Melanesia?
- 21,968 kg/ha, with Barbados ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Barbados and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Barbados and Melanesia rank globally for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Barbados ranks 10th and Melanesia ranks 10th of 112 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sweet potatoes — Yield. 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.