Apples — Area harvested in Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Apples — Area harvested was 68,637 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
68,637 ha
Change on year
up 0.7%
World rank
4th
of 9 countries
All-time high
73,631 ha
in 2014
All-time low
10,000 ha
in 1961
Years of data
64
1961–2024

Apples — Area harvested in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1961–2024

020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k196119922024

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.

Analysis

Democratic People's Republic of Korea recorded 68,637 ha for apples — area harvested in 2024.

That represents a change of up 0.7% on the previous year and down 6.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, apples — area harvested in Democratic People's Republic of Korea peaked at 73,631 ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 10,000 ha, in 1961.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.

Apples — Area harvested in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, year by year

Annual values for Apples — Area harvested in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1961 to 2024.
Year ha Change
1961 10,000 ha
1962 10,000 ha +0.0%
1963 10,000 ha +0.0%
1964 10,000 ha +0.0%
1965 10,000 ha +0.0%
1966 10,000 ha +0.0%
1967 10,000 ha +0.0%
1968 10,000 ha +0.0%
1969 10,000 ha +0.0%
1970 10,000 ha +0.0%
1971 20,000 ha +100.0%
1972 20,000 ha +0.0%
1973 20,000 ha +0.0%
1974 20,000 ha +0.0%
1975 30,000 ha +50.0%
1976 30,000 ha +0.0%
1977 30,000 ha +0.0%
1978 30,000 ha +0.0%
1979 30,000 ha +0.0%
1980 45,000 ha +50.0%
1981 50,000 ha +11.1%
1982 55,000 ha +10.0%
1983 55,000 ha +0.0%
1984 60,000 ha +9.1%
1985 68,000 ha +13.3%
1986 68,000 ha +0.0%
1987 68,000 ha +0.0%
1988 68,000 ha +0.0%
1989 68,000 ha +0.0%
1990 65,905 ha -3.1%
1991 72,692 ha +10.3%
1992 72,764 ha +0.1%
1993 66,618 ha -8.4%
1994 71,910 ha +7.9%
1995 69,449 ha -3.4%
1996 69,834 ha +0.6%
1997 69,027 ha -1.2%
1998 69,000 ha -0.0%
1999 70,000 ha +1.4%
2000 70,388 ha +0.6%
2001 71,000 ha +0.9%
2002 70,735 ha -0.4%
2003 70,000 ha -1.0%
2004 72,000 ha +2.9%
2005 72,481 ha +0.7%
2006 72,511 ha +0.0%
2007 70,000 ha -3.5%
2008 70,076 ha +0.1%
2009 71,220 ha +1.6%
2010 71,473 ha +0.4%
2011 72,800 ha +1.9%
2012 73,500 ha +1.0%
2013 73,500 ha +0.0%
2014 73,631 ha +0.2%
2015 72,419 ha -1.6%
2016 71,983 ha -0.6%
2017 71,394 ha -0.8%
2018 70,737 ha -0.9%
2019 69,912 ha -1.2%
2020 69,235 ha -1.0%
2021 69,175 ha -0.1%
2022 68,600 ha -0.8%
2023 68,134 ha -0.7%
2024 68,637 ha +0.7%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1960s 10,000 ha 10,000 ha 10,000 ha 9
1970s 24,000 ha 10,000 ha 30,000 ha 10
1980s 60,500 ha 45,000 ha 68,000 ha 10
1990s 69,720 ha 65,905 ha 72,764 ha 10
2000s 71,041 ha 70,000 ha 72,511 ha 10
2010s 72,135 ha 69,912 ha 73,631 ha 10
2020s 68,756 ha 68,134 ha 69,235 ha 5

Countries ranked near Democratic People's Republic of Korea

  1. 1 China 2.09 million ha compare
  2. 2 China, mainland 2.09 million ha compare
  3. 2 Türkiye 165,319 ha compare
  4. 3 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 120,514 ha compare
  5. 3 USSR 1.30 million ha compare
  6. 4 India 304,130 ha compare
  7. 5 Russian Federation 189,893 ha compare
  8. 5 Syrian Arab Republic 48,092 ha compare
  9. 6 Poland 148,000 ha compare
  10. 7 Republic of Moldova 37,309 ha compare
  11. 7 Uzbekistan 123,847 ha compare

See the full ranking of 130 places →

More agriculture & rural data for Democratic People's Republic of Korea

All data for Democratic People's Republic of Korea →

Frequently asked questions

What is apples — area harvested in Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
Apples — area harvested in Democratic People's Republic of Korea was 68,637 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest apples — area harvested recorded in Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
The highest recorded value was 73,631 ha in 2014.
What is the lowest apples — area harvested recorded in Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
The lowest recorded value was 10,000 ha in 1961.
How does Democratic People's Republic of Korea rank for apples — area harvested?
Democratic People's Republic of Korea ranks 4th out of 9 countries with data for 2024.
Is apples — area harvested rising or falling in Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
Over the last ten years it is down 6.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Democratic People's Republic of Korea data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Apples — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Apples — Area harvested in Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 06 September 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/stat/apples-area-harvested/democratic-people-s-republic-of-korea/

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/stat/apples-area-harvested/democratic-people-s-republic-of-korea/">Apples — Area harvested in Democratic People's Republic of Korea</a> — Statizoid

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
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.