Americas vs Cameroon: Yams — Area harvested
Yams — Area harvested over time
- Americas
- Cameroon
How they compare
Americas currently reports 100,763 ha against 80,505 ha in Cameroon, a difference of 20,258 ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 1.3 times Cameroon's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 8th and Cameroon ranks 7th of 23 groups.
Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Cameroon | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 73,864 ha | 40,676 ha | 33,189 ha | Americas |
| 1970s | 84,665 ha | 61,224 ha | 23,441 ha | Americas |
| 1980s | 99,374 ha | 36,396 ha | 62,978 ha | Americas |
| 1990s | 120,631 ha | 21,469 ha | 99,162 ha | Americas |
| 2000s | 143,040 ha | 34,054 ha | 108,985 ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 148,685 ha | 58,339 ha | 90,346 ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 106,149 ha | 74,288 ha | 31,861 ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher yams — area harvested, Americas or Cameroon?
- Americas, at 100,763 ha against 80,505 ha in Cameroon as of 2024.
- What is the difference in yams — area harvested between Americas and Cameroon?
- 20,258 ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Cameroon?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Cameroon rank globally for yams — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 8th and Cameroon ranks 7th of 23 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Yams — 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.