Apples — 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
Apples — Area harvested is currently reported for 103 countries. The highest value is 2.09 million ha in China; the lowest is 6 ha in Malta.
The median across all reporting countries is 10,859 ha, and the mean is 78,751 ha.
Over the past decade 41 countries rose and 62 fell. The largest increase was in Montenegro (up 412.7%), and the largest decrease in Guatemala (down 80.1%).
Apples — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2.09 million ha | 2024 | down 8.0% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 2.09 million ha | 2024 | down 8.0% | volatile |
| 2 | Türkiye | 165,319 ha | 2024 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 3 | USSR | 1.30 million ha | 1991 | down 15.6% | rising |
| 3 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 120,514 ha | 2024 | down 48.8% | volatile |
| 4 | India | 304,130 ha | 2024 | down 2.8% | rising |
| 4 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 68,637 ha | 2024 | down 6.8% | rising |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 189,893 ha | 2024 | up 3.8% | falling |
| 5 | Syrian Arab Republic | 48,092 ha | 2024 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 6 | Poland | 148,000 ha | 2024 | down 16.1% | rising |
| 7 | Uzbekistan | 123,847 ha | 2024 | up 38.9% | rising |
| 7 | Republic of Moldova | 37,309 ha | 2024 | down 16.1% | falling |
| 8 | Ukraine | 76,300 ha | 2024 | down 23.9% | volatile |
| 8 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 730 ha | 2024 | up 8.0% | volatile |
| 9 | Pakistan | 68,779 ha | 2024 | down 31.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Mexico | 54,488 ha | 2024 | down 1.7% | rising |
| 11 | Romania | 53,600 ha | 2024 | down 4.5% | rising |
| 11 | Yugoslav SFR | 53,600 ha | 1991 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 13 | Italy | 53,380 ha | 2024 | down 2.5% | falling |
| 14 | France | 52,760 ha | 2024 | up 5.2% | falling |
| 15 | Morocco | 47,609 ha | 2024 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 16 | Tajikistan | 46,740 ha | 2024 | up 5.5% | rising |
| 17 | Egypt | 35,632 ha | 2024 | up 38.2% | volatile |
| 18 | Belarus | 33,534 ha | 2024 | down 41.5% | falling |
| 19 | Japan | 33,403 ha | 2024 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 20 | Republic of Korea | 33,313 ha | 2024 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 21 | Germany | 33,110 ha | 2024 | up 5.2% | volatile |
| 22 | Brazil | 33,054 ha | 2024 | down 10.8% | volatile |
| 23 | Afghanistan | 32,280 ha | 2024 | up 163.6% | volatile |
| 24 | Algeria | 31,875 ha | 2024 | down 21.1% | volatile |
| 25 | South Africa | 31,099 ha | 2024 | up 49.3% | rising |
| 25 | Caribbean | 100 ha | 2024 | down 67.4% | falling |
| 26 | Czechoslovakia | 30,842 ha | 1992 | down 30.5% | falling |
| 27 | Serbia and Montenegro | 30,025 ha | 2005 | up 6.1% | falling |
| 28 | Kazakhstan | 28,678 ha | 2024 | down 5.5% | falling |
| 29 | Australia and New Zealand | 28,032 ha | 2024 | up 11.6% | falling |
| 30 | Spain | 27,940 ha | 2024 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 31 | Kyrgyzstan | 27,187 ha | 2024 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 32 | Serbia | 26,947 ha | 2024 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 33 | Azerbaijan | 26,152 ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | rising |
| 34 | Georgia | 25,457 ha | 2024 | up 13.7% | falling |
| 35 | Chile | 24,994 ha | 2024 | down 32.8% | rising |
| 36 | Tunisia | 24,720 ha | 2024 | up 24.9% | volatile |
| 37 | Iraq | 24,596 ha | 2024 | up 23.0% | rising |
| 38 | Hungary | 22,560 ha | 2024 | down 32.2% | falling |
| 39 | Australia | 18,510 ha | 2024 | up 10.8% | falling |
| 40 | Argentina | 18,184 ha | 2024 | down 31.9% | falling |
| 41 | Lebanon | 16,100 ha | 2024 | up 34.2% | rising |
| 42 | Canada | 15,557 ha | 2024 | down 2.0% | falling |
| 43 | North Macedonia | 15,216 ha | 2024 | up 38.9% | rising |
| 44 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 15,049 ha | 2024 | up 167.9% | rising |
| 45 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 13,827 ha | 2024 | down 13.9% | falling |
| 46 | Portugal | 13,650 ha | 2024 | down 1.4% | falling |
| 47 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 10,859 ha | 1999 | up 52.9% | rising |
| 48 | Armenia | 10,058 ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 49 | New Zealand | 9,522 ha | 2024 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 50 | Greece | 9,100 ha | 2024 | down 7.2% | falling |
| 51 | Lithuania | 8,370 ha | 2024 | down 39.5% | falling |
| 52 | Peru | 6,864 ha | 2024 | down 29.0% | rising |
| 53 | El Salvador | 6,698 ha | 2024 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 54 | Nepal | 6,285 ha | 2024 | up 22.3% | rising |
| 55 | Turkmenistan | 6,122 ha | 2024 | up 3.8% | falling |
| 56 | Austria | 5,980 ha | 2024 | down 11.5% | rising |
| 57 | Czechia | 5,440 ha | 2024 | down 39.3% | falling |
| 58 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 5,250 ha | 2024 | down 33.1% | volatile |
| 59 | Madagascar | 4,681 ha | 2024 | up 3.2% | falling |
| 60 | Belgium | 4,490 ha | 2024 | down 36.8% | falling |
| 61 | Albania | 4,322 ha | 2024 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 62 | Croatia | 3,830 ha | 2024 | down 35.6% | falling |
| 63 | Switzerland | 3,624 ha | 2024 | down 6.9% | falling |
| 64 | Bulgaria | 3,530 ha | 2024 | down 10.7% | volatile |
| 65 | Latvia | 3,100 ha | 2024 | up 16.8% | volatile |
| 66 | Yemen | 2,457 ha | 2024 | up 4.8% | volatile |
| 67 | Uruguay | 2,297 ha | 2024 | down 16.7% | rising |
| 68 | Israel | 2,011 ha | 2024 | down 25.1% | rising |
| 69 | Slovenia | 1,910 ha | 2024 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 70 | Norway | 1,600 ha | 2024 | up 16.5% | volatile |
| 71 | Slovakia | 1,530 ha | 2024 | down 40.2% | falling |
| 72 | Denmark | 1,470 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | falling |
| 73 | Sweden | 1,420 ha | 2024 | up 10.1% | volatile |
| 74 | Ecuador | 1,357 ha | 2024 | down 2.7% | volatile |
| 75 | Guatemala | 1,280 ha | 2024 | down 80.1% | volatile |
| 76 | Montenegro | 1,251 ha | 2024 | up 412.7% | rising |
| 77 | Jordan | 845 ha | 2024 | down 64.6% | volatile |
| 78 | Malawi | 736 ha | 2024 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 79 | Ireland | 710 ha | 2024 | up 11.8% | volatile |
| 80 | Estonia | 670 ha | 2024 | down 77.1% | volatile |
| 81 | Finland | 630 ha | 2024 | down 5.8% | rising |
| 82 | Colombia | 467 ha | 2024 | up 133.5% | falling |
| 83 | Bhutan | 411 ha | 2024 | down 62.6% | falling |
| 84 | Cyprus | 390 ha | 2024 | down 35.6% | falling |
| 85 | Zimbabwe | 227 ha | 2024 | down 21.5% | falling |
| 86 | China, Taiwan Province of | 177 ha | 2024 | up 1.7% | volatile |
| 87 | Libya | 137 ha | 2024 | down 67.4% | volatile |
| 88 | Luxembourg | 110 ha | 2024 | down 54.5% | volatile |
| 89 | Honduras | 91 ha | 2024 | down 5.2% | rising |
| 90 | Kenya | 90 ha | 2024 | up 45.2% | volatile |
| 91 | Paraguay | 84 ha | 2024 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 92 | Palestine | 82 ha | 2022 | down 53.9% | falling |
| 93 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 50 ha | 2024 | down 74.0% | falling |
| 94 | Grenada | 49 ha | 2024 | down 57.4% | falling |
| 95 | Réunion | 7 ha | 2006 | down 65.0% | volatile |
| 96 | Malta | 6 ha | 2017 | down 60.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 4.69 million ha
- Asia 3.31 million ha
- Eastern Asia 2.23 million ha
- Europe 881,413 ha
- Eastern Europe 571,696 ha
- Southern Asia 532,399 ha
- European Union (27) 462,930 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 46,440 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 362,064 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 361,260 ha
- Western Asia 321,544 ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 100 ha
- Americas 287,450 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 238,279 ha
- Central Asia 232,575 ha
- Africa 176,807 ha
- Southern Europe 172,595 ha
- Northern Africa 139,973 ha
- Northern America 136,762 ha
- United States of America 121,205 ha
- Western Europe 105,324 ha
- South America 88,031 ha
- Central America 62,557 ha
- Northern Europe 31,797 ha
- Southern Africa 31,099 ha
- Oceania 28,032 ha
- Eastern Africa 5,734 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.