Benin vs Central America: Tomatoes — Area harvested
Tomatoes — Area harvested over time
- Benin
- Central America
How they compare
Central America currently reports 100,964 ha against 40,000 ha in Benin, a difference of 60,964 ha.
That makes Central America's figure about 2.5 times Benin's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Central America has been ahead every year.
Benin ranks 24th and Central America ranks 21st of 169 countries.
Central America has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Benin | Central America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,912 ha | 74,356 ha | 71,444 ha | Central America |
| 1970s | 5,023 ha | 94,012 ha | 88,989 ha | Central America |
| 1980s | 9,191 ha | 101,169 ha | 91,978 ha | Central America |
| 1990s | 19,150 ha | 119,869 ha | 100,720 ha | Central America |
| 2000s | 26,985 ha | 132,626 ha | 105,642 ha | Central America |
| 2010s | 38,208 ha | 106,954 ha | 68,746 ha | Central America |
| 2020s | 39,406 ha | 101,807 ha | 62,401 ha | Central America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tomatoes — area harvested, Benin or Central America?
- Central America, at 100,964 ha against 40,000 ha in Benin as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tomatoes — area harvested between Benin and Central America?
- 60,964 ha, with Central America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Benin and Central America?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Benin and Central America rank globally for tomatoes — area harvested?
- Benin ranks 24th and Central America ranks 21st of 169 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Tomatoes — 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.