Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Greece
Greece: Carrots and turnips — Area harvested was 790 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Greece, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Greece recorded 790 ha for carrots and turnips — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.6% on the previous year and down 37.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, carrots and turnips — area harvested in Greece peaked at 1,790 ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 400 ha, in 1963.
Greece ranks 87th of 133 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Greece, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 430 ha | — |
| 1962 | 490 ha | +14.0% |
| 1963 | 400 ha | -18.4% |
| 1964 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 500 ha | +25.0% |
| 1967 | 500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 1,020 ha | +104.0% |
| 1970 | 900 ha | -11.8% |
| 1971 | 1,200 ha | +33.3% |
| 1972 | 900 ha | -25.0% |
| 1973 | 1,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1974 | 900 ha | -10.0% |
| 1975 | 1,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1976 | 1,200 ha | +20.0% |
| 1977 | 1,100 ha | -8.3% |
| 1978 | 1,400 ha | +27.3% |
| 1979 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 1,300 ha | -7.1% |
| 1982 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 1,600 ha | +23.1% |
| 1984 | 1,400 ha | -12.5% |
| 1985 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 1,112 ha | -20.6% |
| 1987 | 1,026 ha | -7.7% |
| 1988 | 1,000 ha | -2.5% |
| 1989 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 1,328 ha | +32.8% |
| 1991 | 1,000 ha | -24.7% |
| 1992 | 1,200 ha | +20.0% |
| 1993 | 1,260 ha | +5.0% |
| 1994 | 1,133 ha | -10.1% |
| 1995 | 1,393 ha | +22.9% |
| 1996 | 1,485 ha | +6.6% |
| 1997 | 1,486 ha | +0.1% |
| 1998 | 1,476 ha | -0.7% |
| 1999 | 1,391 ha | -5.8% |
| 2000 | 1,301 ha | -6.5% |
| 2001 | 1,256 ha | -3.5% |
| 2002 | 1,244 ha | -1.0% |
| 2003 | 1,418 ha | +14.0% |
| 2004 | 1,339 ha | -5.6% |
| 2005 | 1,385 ha | +3.4% |
| 2006 | 1,477 ha | +6.6% |
| 2007 | 1,422 ha | -3.7% |
| 2008 | 1,496 ha | +5.2% |
| 2009 | 1,526 ha | +2.0% |
| 2010 | 1,790 ha | +17.3% |
| 2011 | 1,577 ha | -11.9% |
| 2012 | 1,571 ha | -0.4% |
| 2013 | 1,628 ha | +3.6% |
| 2014 | 1,256 ha | -22.9% |
| 2015 | 1,218 ha | -3.0% |
| 2016 | 1,013 ha | -16.8% |
| 2017 | 1,023 ha | +1.0% |
| 2018 | 940 ha | -8.1% |
| 2019 | 960 ha | +2.1% |
| 2020 | 970 ha | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 950 ha | -2.1% |
| 2022 | 810 ha | -14.7% |
| 2023 | 770 ha | -4.9% |
| 2024 | 790 ha | +2.6% |
Greece compared with similar countries
- Greece's 790 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 910 ha, 87% of the median. (49 countries reporting)
- Greece's 790 ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 1,625 ha, 49% of the median. (42 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Greece changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | +104.0% | 500 ha | 1,020 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 515.56 ha | 400 ha | 1,020 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,100 ha | 900 ha | 1,400 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,254 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,600 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,315 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,486 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,386 ha | 1,244 ha | 1,526 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,298 ha | 940 ha | 1,790 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 858 ha | 770 ha | 970 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Greece
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0357 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 962.12 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2078 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is carrots and turnips — area harvested in Greece?
- Carrots and turnips — area harvested in Greece was 790 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest carrots and turnips — area harvested recorded in Greece?
- The highest recorded value was 1,790 ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest carrots and turnips — area harvested recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 400 ha in 1963.
- How does Greece rank for carrots and turnips — area harvested?
- Greece ranks 87th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is carrots and turnips — area harvested rising or falling in Greece?
- Over the last ten years it is down 37.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greece data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Carrots and turnips — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.