Asia vs China (People's Republic of): Tomatoes β€” Area harvested

Asia
2.65 million ha
in 2024
China (People's Republic of)
1.09 million ha
in 2024
Asia rank
1st
China (People's Republic of) rank
1st

Tomatoes β€” Area harvested over time

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

How they compare

Asia currently reports 2.65 million ha against 1.09 million ha in China (People's Republic of), a difference of 1.55 million ha.

That makes Asia's figure about 2.4 times China (People's Republic of)'s.

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

Asia ranks 1st and China (People's Republic of) ranks 1st of 37 regions.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Asia China (People's Republic of) Difference Ahead
1960s 502,778 ha 232,060 ha 270,719 ha Asia
1970s 584,479 ha 183,820 ha 400,659 ha Asia
1980s 944,417 ha 273,844 ha 670,573 ha Asia
1990s 1.49 million ha 491,406 ha 1.00 million ha Asia
2000s 2.16 million ha 839,919 ha 1.32 million ha Asia
2010s 2.61 million ha 1.02 million ha 1.59 million ha Asia
2020s 2.65 million ha 1.10 million ha 1.55 million ha Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tomatoes β€” area harvested, Asia or China (People's Republic of)?
Asia, at 2.65 million ha against 1.09 million ha in China (People's Republic of) as of 2024.
What is the difference in tomatoes β€” area harvested between Asia and China (People's Republic of)?
1.55 million ha, with Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Asia and China (People's Republic of)?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Asia and China (People's Republic of) rank globally for tomatoes β€” area harvested?
Asia ranks 1st and China (People's Republic of) ranks 1st of 37 regions.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Tomatoes β€” Area harvested. 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

Asia vs China (People's Republic of): Tomatoes β€” Area harvested. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 17 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/tomatoes-area-harvested/asia/china/

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-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/tomatoes-area-harvested/asia/china/">Asia vs China (People's Republic of): Tomatoes β€” Area harvested</a> β€” Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Tomatoes β€” Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
215 places, 11,672 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.