Egypt vs Faroe Islands: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Egypt
64,509 tonnes
in 2018
Faroe Islands
64,470 tonnes
in 2018
Egypt rank
45th
Faroe Islands rank
46th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Egypt
  • Faroe Islands
0100.0k200.0k300.0k400.0k195019842018

How they compare

Egypt currently reports 64,509 tonnes against 64,470 tonnes in Faroe Islands, a difference of 39 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Faroe Islands ahead.

Egypt ranks 45th and Faroe Islands ranks 46th of 111 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Egypt averaged higher in 2 and Faroe Islands in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Egypt Faroe Islands Difference Ahead
1950s 20,549 tonnes 141,087 tonnes 120,538 tonnes Faroe Islands
1960s 39,995 tonnes 307,676 tonnes 267,681 tonnes Faroe Islands
1970s 25,926 tonnes 142,905 tonnes 116,979 tonnes Faroe Islands
1980s 34,684 tonnes 134,204 tonnes 99,521 tonnes Faroe Islands
1990s 77,336 tonnes 108,940 tonnes 31,604 tonnes Faroe Islands
2000s 108,785 tonnes 107,046 tonnes 1,739 tonnes Egypt
2010s 81,098 tonnes 73,707 tonnes 7,391 tonnes Egypt

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher wild fish catch from bottom trawling, Egypt or Faroe Islands?
Egypt, at 64,509 tonnes against 64,470 tonnes in Faroe Islands as of 2018.
What is the difference in wild fish catch from bottom trawling between Egypt and Faroe Islands?
39 tonnes, with Egypt ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Egypt and Faroe Islands?
69 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2018.
How do Egypt and Faroe Islands rank globally for wild fish catch from bottom trawling?
Egypt ranks 45th and Faroe Islands ranks 46th of 111 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data, published as Wild fish catch from bottom trawling. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Egypt vs Faroe Islands: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling. Statizoid, drawing on Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data. Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/compare/bottom-trawling/egypt-arab-rep/faroe-islands/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/compare/bottom-trawling/egypt-arab-rep/faroe-islands/">Egypt vs Faroe Islands: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling</a> β€” Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Wild fish catch from bottom trawling
Unit
tonnes
Source
Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
111 places, 6,156 data points, 1950–2018
Last refreshed

Bottom trawling is a fishing method in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the seafloor to catch fish and other marine life.