Cameroon vs Eastern Africa: Vegetables Primary — Area harvested

Cameroon
680,510 ha
in 2024
Eastern Africa
2.22 million ha
in 2024
Cameroon rank
10th
Eastern Africa rank
12th

Vegetables Primary — Area harvested over time

  • Cameroon
  • Eastern Africa
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How they compare

Eastern Africa currently reports 2.22 million ha against 680,510 ha in Cameroon, a difference of 1.54 million ha.

That makes Eastern Africa's figure about 3.3 times Cameroon's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Eastern Africa has been ahead every year.

Cameroon ranks 10th and Eastern Africa ranks 12th of 191 countries.

Eastern Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Cameroon Eastern Africa Difference Ahead
1960s 39,809 ha 476,455 ha 436,646 ha Eastern Africa
1970s 61,275 ha 598,787 ha 537,512 ha Eastern Africa
1980s 69,711 ha 718,589 ha 648,878 ha Eastern Africa
1990s 224,205 ha 889,244 ha 665,039 ha Eastern Africa
2000s 393,171 ha 1.17 million ha 777,028 ha Eastern Africa
2010s 613,591 ha 1.88 million ha 1.26 million ha Eastern Africa
2020s 669,990 ha 2.23 million ha 1.56 million ha Eastern Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher vegetables primary — area harvested, Cameroon or Eastern Africa?
Eastern Africa, at 2.22 million ha against 680,510 ha in Cameroon as of 2024.
What is the difference in vegetables primary — area harvested between Cameroon and Eastern Africa?
1.54 million ha, with Eastern Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Eastern Africa?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Cameroon and Eastern Africa rank globally for vegetables primary — area harvested?
Cameroon ranks 10th and Eastern Africa ranks 12th of 191 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Vegetables Primary — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
240 places, 13,973 data points, 1961–2024
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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.