Artichokes — 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
Artichokes — Area harvested is currently reported for 31 countries. The highest value is 36,370 ha in Italy; the lowest is 0 ha in Hungary.
The median across all reporting countries is 295 ha, and the mean is 4,090 ha.
Over the past decade 12 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Switzerland (down 100.0%).
Artichokes — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy | 36,370 ha | 2024 | down 21.7% | falling |
| 2 | Egypt | 23,349 ha | 2024 | up 84.6% | volatile |
| 2 | Türkiye | 2,623 ha | 2024 | down 2.1% | volatile |
| 3 | China, mainland | 12,407 ha | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 3 | China | 12,407 ha | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 3 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 959 ha | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 4 | Syrian Arab Republic | 309 ha | 2024 | down 40.7% | rising |
| 5 | Spain | 11,880 ha | 2024 | down 31.8% | falling |
| 6 | Peru | 7,057 ha | 2024 | up 33.4% | volatile |
| 7 | Algeria | 5,931 ha | 2024 | up 26.1% | rising |
| 8 | France | 3,670 ha | 2024 | down 52.4% | falling |
| 9 | Tunisia | 3,582 ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | rising |
| 10 | Morocco | 2,729 ha | 2024 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 11 | Argentina | 1,419 ha | 2024 | down 34.8% | falling |
| 12 | Chile | 1,177 ha | 2024 | down 30.1% | falling |
| 13 | Israel | 295 ha | 2024 | up 7.3% | falling |
| 14 | Malta | 169 ha | 2017 | up 12.7% | rising |
| 15 | Uzbekistan | 128 ha | 2024 | up 28.0% | rising |
| 16 | Lebanon | 101 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 17 | Greece | 60 ha | 2024 | down 95.2% | falling |
| 18 | Mexico | 53 ha | 2024 | down 77.3% | volatile |
| 19 | Cyprus | 50 ha | 2024 | down 57.3% | volatile |
| 20 | Kazakhstan | 40 ha | 2024 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 21 | Zimbabwe | 24 ha | 2024 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 22 | Costa Rica | 6 ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 23 | Kenya | 5 ha | 2024 | down 16.7% | volatile |
| 24 | Switzerland | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Jordan | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 24 | Romania | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Lithuania | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 24 | Hungary | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 116,063 ha
- Asia 16,913 ha
- European Union (27) 52,138 ha
- Europe 52,088 ha
- Southern Europe 48,418 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 36,723 ha
- Africa 35,620 ha
- Northern Africa 35,591 ha
- Eastern Asia 12,407 ha
- Americas 11,412 ha
- South America 9,653 ha
- Western Europe 3,670 ha
- Western Asia 3,379 ha
- United States of America 1,700 ha
- Northern America 1,700 ha
- Southern Asia 959 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 466 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 192 ha
- Central Asia 168 ha
- Central America 59 ha
- Eastern Africa 29 ha
- Northern Europe 0 ha
- Eastern Europe 0 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.