Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Latvia
Latvia: Carrots and turnips — Area harvested was 400 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Latvia, 1992–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Latvia recorded 400 ha for carrots and turnips — area harvested in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 33 years on record.
The figure is down 71.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, carrots and turnips — area harvested in Latvia peaked at 3,572 ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 400 ha, in 2020.
That places Latvia 99th out of 133 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 33 years of available data.
Carrots and turnips — Area harvested in Latvia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 2,094 ha | — |
| 1993 | 2,100 ha | +0.3% |
| 1994 | 2,000 ha | -4.8% |
| 1995 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 1,800 ha | -10.0% |
| 1997 | 3,400 ha | +88.9% |
| 1998 | 2,700 ha | -20.6% |
| 1999 | 2,000 ha | -25.9% |
| 2000 | 2,559 ha | +28.0% |
| 2001 | 3,572 ha | +39.6% |
| 2002 | 2,347 ha | -34.3% |
| 2003 | 2,655 ha | +13.1% |
| 2004 | 2,546 ha | -4.1% |
| 2005 | 2,817 ha | +10.6% |
| 2006 | 2,313 ha | -17.9% |
| 2007 | 2,243 ha | -3.0% |
| 2008 | 2,183 ha | -2.7% |
| 2009 | 1,822 ha | -16.5% |
| 2010 | 1,723 ha | -5.4% |
| 2011 | 1,614 ha | -6.3% |
| 2012 | 1,337 ha | -17.2% |
| 2013 | 1,527 ha | +14.2% |
| 2014 | 1,408 ha | -7.8% |
| 2015 | 935 ha | -33.6% |
| 2016 | 1,372 ha | +46.7% |
| 2017 | 1,370 ha | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 500 ha | -63.5% |
| 2019 | 510 ha | +2.0% |
| 2020 | 400 ha | -21.6% |
| 2021 | 500 ha | +25.0% |
| 2022 | 420 ha | -16.0% |
| 2023 | 400 ha | -4.8% |
| 2024 | 400 ha | +0.0% |
Latvia compared with similar countries
- Latvia's 400 ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 910 ha, 44% of the median. (49 countries reporting)
- Latvia's 400 ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 1,625 ha, 25% of the median. (42 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2,262 ha | 1,800 ha | 3,400 ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 2,506 ha | 1,822 ha | 3,572 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,230 ha | 500 ha | 1,723 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 424 ha | 400 ha | 500 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Latvia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 12.21 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0401 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,055 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.45 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3137 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is carrots and turnips — area harvested in Latvia?
- Carrots and turnips — area harvested in Latvia was 400 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest carrots and turnips — area harvested recorded in Latvia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,572 ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest carrots and turnips — area harvested recorded in Latvia?
- The lowest recorded value was 400 ha in 2020.
- How does Latvia rank for carrots and turnips — area harvested?
- Latvia ranks 99th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is carrots and turnips — area harvested rising or falling in Latvia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 71.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Latvia 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.