Almonds, in shell — Area harvested by country
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...
What the numbers show
Almonds, in shell — Area harvested is currently reported for 64 countries. The highest value is 766,070 ha in Spain; the lowest is 0 ha in Lithuania.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,266 ha, and the mean is 30,342 ha.
Over the past decade 26 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Slovenia (up 1,900.0%), and the largest decrease in Ukraine (down 100.0%).
Almonds, in shell — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 766,070 ha | 2024 | up 45.3% | rising |
| 2 | Morocco | 246,275 ha | 2024 | up 54.8% | volatile |
| 3 | Tunisia | 198,531 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 4 | Türkiye | 77,237 ha | 2024 | up 185.9% | volatile |
| 5 | Portugal | 73,770 ha | 2024 | up 155.5% | rising |
| 6 | Syrian Arab Republic | 71,258 ha | 2024 | down 1.0% | volatile |
| 7 | Libya | 61,702 ha | 2024 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 8 | Australia and New Zealand | 60,586 ha | 2024 | up 115.9% | volatile |
| 8 | Australia | 60,586 ha | 2024 | up 115.9% | volatile |
| 10 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 57,649 ha | 2024 | down 37.7% | volatile |
| 11 | Italy | 53,390 ha | 2024 | down 2.5% | volatile |
| 12 | Afghanistan | 39,794 ha | 2024 | up 190.4% | volatile |
| 13 | Algeria | 36,926 ha | 2024 | down 5.4% | volatile |
| 14 | USSR | 26,000 ha | 1991 | up 66.7% | rising |
| 15 | Greece | 17,980 ha | 2024 | up 54.7% | falling |
| 16 | China, mainland | 10,431 ha | 2024 | down 25.5% | rising |
| 16 | China | 10,431 ha | 2024 | down 25.5% | rising |
| 18 | India | 9,680 ha | 2024 | down 53.9% | falling |
| 19 | Chile | 8,324 ha | 2024 | down 2.9% | rising |
| 20 | Pakistan | 7,821 ha | 2024 | down 26.6% | rising |
| 21 | Yemen | 7,263 ha | 2024 | up 26.5% | volatile |
| 22 | Uzbekistan | 5,205 ha | 2024 | down 34.9% | falling |
| 23 | Lebanon | 4,900 ha | 2024 | down 8.5% | volatile |
| 24 | Tajikistan | 4,277 ha | 2024 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 25 | Burkina Faso | 3,508 ha | 2024 | up 29.5% | rising |
| 26 | Yugoslav SFR | 3,000 ha | 1991 | up 57.9% | rising |
| 27 | Côte d'Ivoire | 2,840 ha | 2024 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 28 | France | 2,720 ha | 2024 | up 139.9% | flat |
| 29 | Cyprus | 1,890 ha | 2024 | down 25.2% | falling |
| 30 | Bulgaria | 1,840 ha | 2024 | up 193.5% | falling |
| 31 | Turkmenistan | 1,486 ha | 2024 | down 7.1% | flat |
| 32 | Azerbaijan | 1,463 ha | 2024 | up 241.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Croatia | 1,070 ha | 2024 | up 279.4% | volatile |
| 34 | Georgia | 974 ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 35 | Palestine | 857 ha | 2022 | down 71.5% | volatile |
| 36 | Eswatini | 662 ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 37 | Kyrgyzstan | 551 ha | 2024 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 38 | North Macedonia | 448 ha | 2024 | up 30.2% | falling |
| 39 | Hungary | 420 ha | 2024 | up 133.3% | volatile |
| 40 | Argentina | 389 ha | 2024 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 41 | Jordan | 383 ha | 2024 | up 23.9% | volatile |
| 42 | Israel | 379 ha | 2024 | up 5.3% | volatile |
| 43 | Republic of Moldova | 349 ha | 2024 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 44 | Iraq | 313 ha | 2024 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 45 | Kazakhstan | 96 ha | 2024 | down 4.0% | falling |
| 46 | Saudi Arabia | 79 ha | 2024 | — | rising |
| 47 | United Arab Emirates | 37 ha | 2024 | down 95.2% | volatile |
| 48 | Mexico | 33 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 49 | Slovenia | 20 ha | 2024 | up 1,900.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Nepal | 16 ha | 2024 | up 23.1% | rising |
| 51 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10 ha | 2024 | down 69.7% | volatile |
| 52 | Estonia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Ukraine | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 52 | Sweden | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Belgium | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Romania | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Poland | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Ireland | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Finland | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Malta | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Latvia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Luxembourg | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 52 | Lithuania | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 2.40 million ha
- European Union (27) 919,170 ha
- Europe 918,086 ha
- Southern Europe 912,758 ha
- Americas 567,218 ha
- Northern America 558,472 ha
- United States of America 558,472 ha
- Africa 550,443 ha
- Northern Africa 543,434 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 507,093 ha
- Asia 303,929 ha
- Western Asia 166,922 ha
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.