Eastern Africa vs Melanesia: Vegetables Primary — Area harvested

Eastern Africa
2.22 million ha
in 2024
Melanesia
64,242 ha
in 2024
Eastern Africa rank
12th
Melanesia rank
15th

Vegetables Primary — Area harvested over time

  • Eastern Africa
  • Melanesia
0500.0k1.0M1.5M2.0M2.5M196119922024

How they compare

Eastern Africa currently reports 2.22 million ha against 64,242 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 2.16 million ha.

That makes Eastern Africa's figure about 34.6 times Melanesia's.

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

Eastern Africa ranks 12th and Melanesia ranks 15th of 29 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Eastern Africa Melanesia Difference Ahead
1960s 476,455 ha 16,827 ha 459,628 ha Eastern Africa
1970s 598,787 ha 21,762 ha 577,025 ha Eastern Africa
1980s 718,589 ha 29,324 ha 689,265 ha Eastern Africa
1990s 889,244 ha 36,747 ha 852,496 ha Eastern Africa
2000s 1.17 million ha 46,414 ha 1.12 million ha Eastern Africa
2010s 1.88 million ha 51,807 ha 1.82 million ha Eastern Africa
2020s 2.23 million ha 60,962 ha 2.17 million ha Eastern Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher vegetables primary — area harvested, Eastern Africa or Melanesia?
Eastern Africa, at 2.22 million ha against 64,242 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
What is the difference in vegetables primary — area harvested between Eastern Africa and Melanesia?
2.16 million ha, with Eastern Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Africa and Melanesia?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Eastern Africa and Melanesia rank globally for vegetables primary — area harvested?
Eastern Africa ranks 12th and Melanesia ranks 15th of 29 groups.
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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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.