Broad beans and horse beans, dry β 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
Broad beans and horse beans, dry β Area harvested is currently reported for 73 countries. The highest value is 818,255 ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Slovenia.
The median across all reporting countries is 5,800 ha, and the mean is 58,510 ha.
Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Sierra Leone (up 1,836.4%), and the largest decrease in Canada (down 100.0%).
Broad beans and horse beans, dry β Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 818,255 ha | 2024 | up 16.6% | volatile |
| 1 | China, mainland | 818,255 ha | 2024 | up 16.6% | volatile |
| 3 | Ethiopia | 491,913 ha | 2024 | down 9.3% | rising |
| 4 | Australia | 343,100 ha | 2024 | up 125.6% | volatile |
| 4 | Australia and New Zealand | 343,100 ha | 2024 | up 125.6% | volatile |
| 6 | Ethiopia PDR | 297,600 ha | 1992 | down 14.7% | rising |
| 7 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 135,387 ha | 2024 | up 30.8% | volatile |
| 8 | Lithuania | 90,330 ha | 2024 | β | volatile |
| 9 | France | 80,440 ha | 2024 | up 7.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Sudan (former) | 72,420 ha | 2011 | up 25.9% | volatile |
| 11 | Morocco | 72,255 ha | 2024 | down 62.2% | falling |
| 12 | Germany | 61,700 ha | 2024 | up 201.0% | volatile |
| 13 | Tunisia | 55,212 ha | 2024 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 14 | Peru | 53,874 ha | 2024 | down 7.5% | rising |
| 15 | Italy | 53,350 ha | 2024 | up 29.9% | volatile |
| 16 | Poland | 46,330 ha | 2024 | up 244.5% | volatile |
| 17 | Algeria | 37,838 ha | 2024 | up 0.9% | flat |
| 18 | Egypt | 33,752 ha | 2024 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 19 | Brazil | 31,968 ha | 2024 | up 48.1% | volatile |
| 20 | Spain | 31,920 ha | 2024 | up 37.9% | volatile |
| 21 | Latvia | 31,200 ha | 2024 | down 22.2% | falling |
| 22 | Sierra Leone | 28,252 ha | 2024 | up 1,836.4% | volatile |
| 23 | Sudan | 27,665 ha | 2024 | down 59.0% | falling |
| 24 | Paraguay | 21,688 ha | 2024 | up 0.7% | volatile |
| 25 | Guatemala | 20,922 ha | 2024 | down 2.8% | rising |
| 26 | Denmark | 18,400 ha | 2024 | down 27.6% | volatile |
| 27 | Ireland | 18,040 ha | 2024 | up 522.1% | volatile |
| 28 | Mexico | 16,407 ha | 2024 | down 38.0% | falling |
| 29 | Sweden | 16,210 ha | 2024 | down 14.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Czechoslovakia | 13,471 ha | 1992 | down 49.2% | volatile |
| 31 | Estonia | 10,680 ha | 2024 | down 37.5% | falling |
| 32 | Dominican Republic | 9,523 ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 33 | Croatia | 8,420 ha | 2024 | up 501.4% | volatile |
| 34 | Austria | 6,890 ha | 2024 | down 10.1% | volatile |
| 35 | Romania | 6,690 ha | 2024 | down 45.5% | falling |
| 36 | Nepal | 6,070 ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | falling |
| 37 | Finland | 5,800 ha | 2024 | down 64.0% | falling |
| 38 | Greece | 5,080 ha | 2024 | up 188.6% | volatile |
| 39 | Yemen | 4,619 ha | 2024 | up 14.8% | volatile |
| 40 | Russian Federation | 4,237 ha | 2024 | down 30.4% | volatile |
| 41 | Uzbekistan | 2,786 ha | 2024 | up 3.2% | falling |
| 42 | Czechia | 2,140 ha | 2024 | up 44.8% | volatile |
| 43 | Ecuador | 2,122 ha | 2024 | down 68.4% | volatile |
| 44 | Argentina | 1,939 ha | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 45 | Portugal | 1,880 ha | 2024 | up 345.5% | volatile |
| 46 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1,670 ha | 2024 | up 267.0% | volatile |
| 47 | Colombia | 1,610 ha | 2024 | up 56.5% | falling |
| 48 | Ukraine | 1,200 ha | 2024 | down 45.5% | volatile |
| 49 | Hungary | 960 ha | 2024 | up 336.4% | volatile |
| 50 | Belgium | 940 ha | 2024 | up 56.7% | rising |
| 51 | Switzerland | 850 ha | 2024 | up 72.4% | volatile |
| 52 | Iraq | 652 ha | 2024 | down 46.1% | volatile |
| 53 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 586 ha | 1999 | up 21.3% | volatile |
| 54 | Eritrea | 517 ha | 2024 | down 17.7% | volatile |
| 55 | Lebanon | 374 ha | 2024 | up 206.6% | volatile |
| 56 | Uruguay | 348 ha | 2024 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 57 | Cameroon | 282 ha | 2024 | up 5.6% | rising |
| 58 | Jamaica | 183 ha | 2024 | down 12.0% | rising |
| 59 | Albania | 177 ha | 2024 | up 9.9% | rising |
| 60 | Slovakia | 150 ha | 2024 | down 44.2% | volatile |
| 61 | Libya | 117 ha | 2024 | down 0.8% | volatile |
| 62 | Japan | 96 ha | 2024 | down 14.3% | volatile |
| 63 | Palestine, State of | 86 ha | 2022 | down 27.1% | volatile |
| 64 | Jordan | 80 ha | 1990 | down 59.0% | volatile |
| 65 | Luxembourg | 70 ha | 2024 | down 27.8% | falling |
| 66 | Cyprus | 60 ha | 2024 | down 31.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Guyana | 57 ha | 2024 | down 41.2% | volatile |
| 68 | Israel | 40 ha | 1989 | down 73.3% | volatile |
| 69 | Azerbaijan | 24 ha | 2024 | down 57.9% | volatile |
| 70 | Bulgaria | 0 ha | 2023 | β | volatile |
| 70 | Canada | 0 ha | 2013 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 70 | Malta | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 70 | Slovenia | 0 ha | 2015 | 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.
- World 2.78 million ha
- Eastern Asia 818,351 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 783,835 ha
- Africa 747,803 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 587,018 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 537,117 ha
- European Union (27) 499,350 ha
- Eastern Africa 492,430 ha
- Northern Europe 326,047 ha
- Americas 175,277 ha
- Northern Africa 226,839 ha
- Western Europe 152,560 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.