Asparagus — 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...

Countries reporting
51
Highest
1.42 million ha
China
Lowest
0 ha
Romania
Median
450 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,697

What the numbers show

Asparagus — Area harvested is currently reported for 51 countries. The highest value is 1.42 million ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Romania.

The median across all reporting countries is 450 ha, and the mean is 58,600 ha.

Over the past decade 24 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Türkiye (up 1,557.9%), and the largest decrease in Bulgaria (down 100.0%).

Asparagus — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 1.42 million ha 2024 up 6.5% volatile
2 China, mainland 1.42 million ha 2024 up 6.5% volatile
2 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 876 ha 2024 down 1.9% rising
3 Mexico 35,662 ha 2024 up 74.5% volatile
3 Türkiye 315 ha 2024 up 1,557.9% volatile
4 Peru 28,500 ha 2024 down 10.7% volatile
5 Germany 19,760 ha 2024 down 1.8% volatile
6 Spain 13,130 ha 2024 up 29.8% rising
7 Italy 9,320 ha 2024 up 47.6% rising
8 France 7,400 ha 2024 up 65.0% volatile
9 Japan 4,295 ha 2024 down 23.0% flat
10 Argentina 2,683 ha 2024 up 4.2% rising
11 Canada 2,494 ha 2024 up 31.3% rising
12 Poland 2,400 ha 2024 up 948.0% volatile
13 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 2,190 ha 2024 down 17.1% rising
14 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2,063 ha 2024 down 3.8% volatile
15 Thailand 1,717 ha 2024 down 4.1% volatile
16 Chile 1,554 ha 2024 down 26.1% volatile
17 Australia and New Zealand 1,448 ha 2024 down 37.1% falling
18 Greece 1,240 ha 2024 down 22.3% volatile
19 Australia 1,124 ha 2024 down 32.9% flat
20 Hungary 1,000 ha 2024 down 21.3% rising
21 Austria 760 ha 2024 up 23.2% volatile
22 Ecuador 654 ha 2024 up 42.2% rising
23 Belgium 640 ha 2024 up 60.0% volatile
24 China, Taiwan Province of 521 ha 2024 down 9.7% volatile
25 Switzerland 450 ha 2024 up 21.3% rising
26 New Zealand 324 ha 2024 down 48.4% volatile
27 North Macedonia 302 ha 2024 up 4.1% rising
28 Croatia 210 ha 2024 — rising
28 Denmark 210 ha 2024 up 75.0% volatile
30 Czechia 200 ha 2024 up 63.9% rising
31 South Africa 197 ha 2024 up 146.2% volatile
32 Portugal 170 ha 2024 up 466.7% volatile
33 Belgium-Luxembourg 135 ha 1999 down 32.5% volatile
34 Sweden 130 ha 2024 down 13.3% falling
35 Colombia 125 ha 2024 up 443.5% volatile
36 Slovakia 100 ha 2023 down 62.4% volatile
36 Slovenia 100 ha 2024 up 51.5% volatile
38 Lithuania 72 ha 2017 down 20.0% falling
38 Zimbabwe 72 ha 2024 down 8.9% rising
40 Philippines 47 ha 2024 down 84.6% volatile
41 Bhutan 41 ha 2024 down 63.1% volatile
41 Kenya 41 ha 2024 up 86.4% volatile
43 Costa Rica 32 ha 2024 unchanged flat
44 Finland 30 ha 2024 up 25.0% rising
45 Luxembourg 20 ha 2024 up 100.0% rising
46 Morocco 17 ha 2024 down 91.5% volatile
47 Israel 9 ha 2024 down 10.0% volatile
48 Bulgaria 0 ha 2022 down 100.0% falling
48 Romania 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Asparagus — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
77 places, 3,697 data points, 1961–2024
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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.