Areca nuts — 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
Areca nuts — Area harvested is currently reported for 12 countries. The highest value is 949,403 ha in India; the lowest is 9 ha in Malaysia.
The median across all reporting countries is 29,442 ha, and the mean is 113,135 ha.
Over the past decade 8 countries rose and 4 fell. The largest increase was in Maldives (up 333.3%), and the largest decrease in Malaysia (down 95.9%).
Areca nuts — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 949,403 ha | 2024 | up 110.0% | volatile |
| 2 | Indonesia | 164,217 ha | 2024 | up 19.8% | rising |
| 3 | Myanmar | 85,046 ha | 2024 | up 22.9% | volatile |
| 4 | Bangladesh | 39,657 ha | 2024 | up 164.9% | falling |
| 5 | China | 36,184 ha | 2024 | down 18.7% | volatile |
| 5 | China, Taiwan Province of | 36,184 ha | 2024 | down 18.7% | volatile |
| 7 | Thailand | 22,700 ha | 2024 | up 5.4% | volatile |
| 8 | Sri Lanka | 18,806 ha | 2024 | up 14.5% | volatile |
| 9 | Nepal | 4,081 ha | 2024 | down 10.7% | rising |
| 10 | Bhutan | 1,325 ha | 2024 | up 62.8% | volatile |
| 11 | Maldives | 13 ha | 2024 | up 333.3% | volatile |
| 12 | Malaysia | 9 ha | 2024 | down 95.9% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Asia 1.32 million ha
- World 1.32 million ha
- Southern Asia 1.01 million ha
- South-eastern Asia 271,972 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 148,928 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 128,784 ha
- Eastern Asia 36,184 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 5,406 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 4,081 ha
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 13 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.