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...

Countries reporting
73
Highest
818,255 ha
China
Lowest
0 ha
Slovenia
Median
5,800 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,239

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

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Indicator
Broad beans and horse beans, dry β€” Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
105 places, 5,239 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.