Cashew nuts, in shell — 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
Cashew nuts, in shell — Area harvested is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 1.43 million ha in Côte d'Ivoire; the lowest is 0 ha in Belize.
The median across all reporting countries is 20,945 ha, and the mean is 197,911 ha.
Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Gambia (up 547.6%), and the largest decrease in Belize (down 100.0%).
Cashew nuts, in shell — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1.43 million ha | 2024 | up 8.6% | volatile |
| 2 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1.33 million ha | 2024 | up 205.6% | volatile |
| 3 | India | 1.20 million ha | 2024 | up 18.6% | rising |
| 4 | Benin | 487,479 ha | 2024 | down 21.5% | volatile |
| 5 | Brazil | 450,237 ha | 2024 | down 28.2% | volatile |
| 6 | Indonesia | 439,322 ha | 2024 | down 17.1% | volatile |
| 7 | Ghana | 408,433 ha | 2024 | up 380.5% | volatile |
| 8 | Viet Nam | 283,758 ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | volatile |
| 9 | Nigeria | 170,224 ha | 2024 | up 34.6% | volatile |
| 10 | Mozambique | 168,452 ha | 2024 | up 110.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Guinea-Bissau | 157,920 ha | 2024 | down 26.3% | volatile |
| 12 | Burkina Faso | 124,274 ha | 2024 | down 2.1% | volatile |
| 13 | Mali | 69,309 ha | 2024 | up 91.6% | volatile |
| 14 | Guinea | 34,475 ha | 2024 | up 305.8% | volatile |
| 15 | Philippines | 26,078 ha | 2024 | down 8.8% | volatile |
| 16 | Kenya | 24,246 ha | 2024 | up 12.2% | falling |
| 17 | Senegal | 23,152 ha | 2024 | up 14.8% | rising |
| 18 | Gambia | 20,945 ha | 2024 | up 547.6% | volatile |
| 19 | Madagascar | 15,866 ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 20 | Sri Lanka | 15,747 ha | 2024 | down 26.7% | falling |
| 21 | Thailand | 15,204 ha | 2024 | down 3.5% | volatile |
| 22 | Dominican Republic | 8,608 ha | 2024 | up 30.0% | rising |
| 24 | Colombia | 7,914 ha | 2024 | up 378.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Malaysia | 7,667 ha | 2024 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 26 | Togo | 5,479 ha | 2024 | up 8.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Angola | 2,673 ha | 2024 | down 4.6% | falling |
| 28 | Myanmar | 1,761 ha | 2024 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 29 | Honduras | 1,491 ha | 2024 | up 7.3% | volatile |
| 30 | El Salvador | 1,468 ha | 2024 | up 80.3% | flat |
| 31 | Mexico | 817 ha | 2024 | down 43.1% | volatile |
| 32 | Peru | 468 ha | 2024 | down 18.8% | rising |
| 33 | China, mainland | 206 ha | 2024 | down 10.4% | volatile |
| 33 | China | 206 ha | 2024 | down 10.4% | volatile |
| 35 | Malawi | 100 ha | 2024 | down 9.1% | flat |
| 36 | Belize | 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.
- World 6.94 million ha
- Africa 4.48 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 3.93 million ha
- Western Africa 2.94 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 2.47 million ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 2.45 million ha
- Asia 1.99 million ha
- Eastern Africa 1.53 million ha
- Southern Asia 1.21 million ha
- South-Eastern Asia 773,791 ha
- Americas 471,002 ha
- South America 458,619 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.