China (People’s Republic of) vs Eastern Asia: Apples — Area harvested

China (People’s Republic of)
2.09 million ha
in 2024
Eastern Asia
2.23 million ha
in 2024
China (People’s Republic of) rank
1st
Eastern Asia rank
2nd

Apples — Area harvested over time

  • China (People’s Republic of)
  • Eastern Asia
01.0M2.0M3.0M196119922024

How they compare

Eastern Asia currently reports 2.23 million ha against 2.09 million ha in China (People’s Republic of), a difference of 135,360 ha.

That makes Eastern Asia's figure about 1.1 times China (People’s Republic of)'s.

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

China (People’s Republic of) ranks 1st and Eastern Asia ranks 2nd of 96 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade China (People’s Republic of) Eastern Asia Difference Ahead
1960s 160,000 ha 250,622 ha 90,622 ha Eastern Asia
1970s 459,179 ha 569,412 ha 110,233 ha Eastern Asia
1980s 1.04 million ha 1.20 million ha 156,173 ha Eastern Asia
1990s 2.40 million ha 2.56 million ha 164,545 ha Eastern Asia
2000s 1.98 million ha 2.12 million ha 140,178 ha Eastern Asia
2010s 2.15 million ha 2.29 million ha 141,021 ha Eastern Asia
2020s 2.00 million ha 2.14 million ha 137,130 ha Eastern Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher apples — area harvested, China (People’s Republic of) or Eastern Asia?
Eastern Asia, at 2.23 million ha against 2.09 million ha in China (People’s Republic of) as of 2024.
What is the difference in apples — area harvested between China (People’s Republic of) and Eastern Asia?
135,360 ha, with Eastern Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for China (People’s Republic of) and Eastern Asia?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do China (People’s Republic of) and Eastern Asia rank globally for apples — area harvested?
China (People’s Republic of) ranks 1st and Eastern Asia ranks 2nd of 96 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Apples — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Apples — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
130 places, 6,462 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.