Indonesia vs World: Oil palm fruit — Area harvested

Indonesia
14.32 million ha
in 2024
World
29.02 million ha
in 2024
Indonesia rank
1st
World rank
1st

Oil palm fruit — Area harvested over time

  • Indonesia
  • World
010.0M20.0M30.0M196119922024

How they compare

World currently reports 29.02 million ha against 14.32 million ha in Indonesia, a difference of 14.70 million ha.

That makes World's figure about 2.0 times Indonesia's.

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

Indonesia ranks 1st and World ranks 1st of 41 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Indonesia World Difference Ahead
1960s 80,556 ha 3.42 million ha 3.34 million ha World
1970s 129,700 ha 3.53 million ha 3.40 million ha World
1980s 349,470 ha 4.82 million ha 4.47 million ha World
1990s 1.22 million ha 8.16 million ha 6.94 million ha World
2000s 3.57 million ha 13.10 million ha 9.53 million ha World
2010s 8.89 million ha 21.07 million ha 12.17 million ha World
2020s 13.87 million ha 28.32 million ha 14.45 million ha World

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher oil palm fruit — area harvested, Indonesia or World?
World, at 29.02 million ha against 14.32 million ha in Indonesia as of 2024.
What is the difference in oil palm fruit — area harvested between Indonesia and World?
14.70 million ha, with World ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Indonesia and World?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Indonesia and World rank globally for oil palm fruit — area harvested?
Indonesia ranks 1st and World ranks 1st of 41 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Oil palm fruit — 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
Oil palm fruit — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
64 places, 3,870 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.