Cook Islands vs Melanesia: Sweet potatoes — Yield
Sweet potatoes — Yield over time
- Cook Islands
- Melanesia
How they compare
Cook Islands currently reports 27,481 kg/ha against 5,636 kg/ha in Melanesia, a difference of 21,845 kg/ha.
That makes Cook Islands's figure about 4.9 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Cook Islands has been ahead every year.
Cook Islands ranks 11th and Melanesia ranks 10th of 112 countries.
Cook Islands has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cook Islands | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21,082 kg/ha | 4,394 kg/ha | 16,688 kg/ha | Cook Islands |
| 1970s | 20,121 kg/ha | 4,766 kg/ha | 15,355 kg/ha | Cook Islands |
| 1980s | 25,122 kg/ha | 5,014 kg/ha | 20,108 kg/ha | Cook Islands |
| 1990s | 26,306 kg/ha | 5,030 kg/ha | 21,277 kg/ha | Cook Islands |
| 2000s | 27,490 kg/ha | 5,381 kg/ha | 22,110 kg/ha | Cook Islands |
| 2010s | 27,468 kg/ha | 5,558 kg/ha | 21,910 kg/ha | Cook Islands |
| 2020s | 27,481 kg/ha | 5,619 kg/ha | 21,862 kg/ha | Cook Islands |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sweet potatoes — yield, Cook Islands or Melanesia?
- Cook Islands, at 27,481 kg/ha against 5,636 kg/ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in sweet potatoes — yield between Cook Islands and Melanesia?
- 21,845 kg/ha, with Cook Islands ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cook Islands and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Cook Islands and Melanesia rank globally for sweet potatoes — yield?
- Cook Islands ranks 11th 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.