Brazil vs Melanesia: Watermelons — Area harvested
Watermelons — Area harvested over time
- Brazil
- Melanesia
How they compare
Brazil currently reports 83,288 ha against 18,464 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 64,824 ha.
That makes Brazil's figure about 4.5 times Melanesia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Brazil has been ahead every year.
Brazil ranks 7th and Melanesia ranks 8th of 131 countries.
Brazil has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brazil | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 117,100 ha | 15.22 ha | 117,085 ha | Brazil |
| 1970s | 87,751 ha | 19.9 ha | 87,731 ha | Brazil |
| 1980s | 74,098 ha | 25.3 ha | 74,073 ha | Brazil |
| 1990s | 74,044 ha | 166 ha | 73,878 ha | Brazil |
| 2000s | 85,341 ha | 281.9 ha | 85,059 ha | Brazil |
| 2010s | 96,408 ha | 406.5 ha | 96,002 ha | Brazil |
| 2020s | 87,816 ha | 11,261 ha | 76,555 ha | Brazil |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher watermelons — area harvested, Brazil or Melanesia?
- Brazil, at 83,288 ha against 18,464 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in watermelons — area harvested between Brazil and Melanesia?
- 64,824 ha, with Brazil ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Brazil and Melanesia rank globally for watermelons — area harvested?
- Brazil ranks 7th and Melanesia ranks 8th of 131 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Watermelons — 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.