Egypt vs Italy: Wheat — Area harvested
Wheat — Area harvested over time
- Egypt
- Italy
How they compare
Italy currently reports 1.70 million ha against 1.39 million ha in Egypt, a difference of 310,860 ha.
That makes Italy's figure about 1.2 times Egypt's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Italy has been ahead every year.
Egypt ranks 27th and Italy ranks 24th of 124 countries.
Italy has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Egypt | Italy | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 554,225 ha | 4.31 million ha | 3.75 million ha | Italy |
| 1970s | 559,390 ha | 3.60 million ha | 3.04 million ha | Italy |
| 1980s | 559,455 ha | 3.17 million ha | 2.61 million ha | Italy |
| 1990s | 956,456 ha | 2.46 million ha | 1.51 million ha | Italy |
| 2000s | 1.14 million ha | 2.19 million ha | 1.05 million ha | Italy |
| 2010s | 1.35 million ha | 1.84 million ha | 488,125 ha | Italy |
| 2020s | 1.41 million ha | 1.76 million ha | 350,470 ha | Italy |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher wheat — area harvested, Egypt or Italy?
- Italy, at 1.70 million ha against 1.39 million ha in Egypt as of 2024.
- What is the difference in wheat — area harvested between Egypt and Italy?
- 310,860 ha, with Italy ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and Italy?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Egypt and Italy rank globally for wheat — area harvested?
- Egypt ranks 27th and Italy ranks 24th of 124 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Wheat — 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.