Americas vs Melanesia: Tea leaves — Area harvested
Tea leaves — Area harvested over time
- Americas
- Melanesia
How they compare
Americas currently reports 35,079 ha against 3,543 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 31,536 ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 9.9 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 11th and Melanesia ranks 11th of 20 groups.
Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 27,161 ha | 138.44 ha | 27,023 ha | Americas |
| 1970s | 45,365 ha | 3,035 ha | 42,330 ha | Americas |
| 1980s | 47,209 ha | 3,446 ha | 43,763 ha | Americas |
| 1990s | 46,355 ha | 3,349 ha | 43,006 ha | Americas |
| 2000s | 45,107 ha | 3,792 ha | 41,316 ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 43,860 ha | 3,659 ha | 40,201 ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 35,817 ha | 3,414 ha | 32,403 ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tea leaves — area harvested, Americas or Melanesia?
- Americas, at 35,079 ha against 3,543 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tea leaves — area harvested between Americas and Melanesia?
- 31,536 ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Melanesia rank globally for tea leaves — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 11th and Melanesia ranks 11th of 20 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Tea leaves — 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.