Cassava, fresh — 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
Cassava, fresh — Area harvested is currently reported for 107 countries. The highest value is 10.72 million ha in Nigeria; the lowest is 0 ha in Cook Islands.
The median across all reporting countries is 16,406 ha, and the mean is 319,953 ha.
Over the past decade 60 countries rose and 43 fell. The largest increase was in Niger (up 533.8%), and the largest decrease in Grenada (down 100.0%).
Cassava, fresh — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigeria | 10.72 million ha | 2024 | up 51.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Thailand | 1.42 million ha | 2024 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 3 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 5.71 million ha | 2024 | up 33.2% | volatile |
| 3 | Brazil | 1.23 million ha | 2024 | down 21.4% | falling |
| 4 | Angola | 1.09 million ha | 2024 | up 43.8% | rising |
| 5 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1.64 million ha | 2024 | up 105.1% | rising |
| 5 | Ghana | 1.08 million ha | 2024 | up 21.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Mozambique | 926,390 ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 6 | Viet Nam | 516,694 ha | 2024 | down 6.5% | rising |
| 7 | Uganda | 826,544 ha | 2024 | down 3.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Cambodia | 598,220 ha | 2024 | up 16.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 295,000 ha | 2024 | up 387.8% | volatile |
| 9 | Indonesia | 553,450 ha | 2024 | down 44.8% | falling |
| 9 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 32,311 ha | 2024 | up 12.6% | flat |
| 10 | Cameroon | 466,886 ha | 2024 | up 44.7% | volatile |
| 10 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 29,897 ha | 2024 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 11 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1.39 million ha | 2024 | up 112.9% | volatile |
| 11 | Burundi | 341,757 ha | 2024 | up 12.2% | volatile |
| 11 | Melanesia | 24,241 ha | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 12 | Guinea | 336,706 ha | 2024 | up 86.7% | volatile |
| 12 | Caribbean | 324,084 ha | 2024 | up 39.5% | rising |
| 12 | Timor-Leste | 4,850 ha | 2024 | down 32.5% | rising |
| 13 | Togo | 333,367 ha | 2024 | up 18.0% | volatile |
| 13 | Micronesia | 810 ha | 2024 | down 6.1% | falling |
| 13 | Micronesia (Federated States of) | 810 ha | 2024 | down 6.1% | falling |
| 14 | Madagascar | 322,141 ha | 2024 | down 14.4% | rising |
| 15 | China | 310,183 ha | 2024 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 15 | Polynesia | 707 ha | 2024 | down 7.7% | falling |
| 16 | China, mainland | 309,857 ha | 2024 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 17 | Benin | 298,564 ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | volatile |
| 18 | Zambia | 267,331 ha | 2024 | up 434.7% | volatile |
| 18 | Cabo Verde | 265 ha | 2024 | down 61.1% | rising |
| 19 | Sierra Leone | 262,326 ha | 2024 | down 21.8% | volatile |
| 20 | Malawi | 246,235 ha | 2024 | up 9.0% | volatile |
| 21 | Philippines | 236,084 ha | 2024 | up 8.9% | rising |
| 22 | Central African Republic | 179,794 ha | 2024 | up 25.1% | falling |
| 23 | India | 176,627 ha | 2024 | down 22.6% | falling |
| 24 | Paraguay | 165,150 ha | 2024 | down 8.2% | rising |
| 25 | Congo | 162,292 ha | 2024 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 26 | Haiti | 150,434 ha | 2024 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 27 | Cuba | 124,436 ha | 2024 | up 81.1% | rising |
| 28 | Peru | 112,068 ha | 2024 | up 14.4% | rising |
| 29 | Colombia | 104,906 ha | 2024 | down 46.8% | falling |
| 30 | Senegal | 96,844 ha | 2024 | up 364.1% | volatile |
| 31 | South Sudan | 95,885 ha | 2024 | up 13.2% | rising |
| 32 | Rwanda | 93,511 ha | 2024 | up 35.8% | volatile |
| 33 | Kenya | 81,944 ha | 2024 | up 28.6% | flat |
| 34 | Liberia | 80,904 ha | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 35 | Gabon | 58,031 ha | 2024 | down 5.0% | rising |
| 36 | Zimbabwe | 53,243 ha | 2024 | up 2.4% | rising |
| 37 | Dominican Republic | 47,251 ha | 2024 | up 101.6% | falling |
| 38 | Niger | 42,156 ha | 2024 | up 533.8% | volatile |
| 39 | Chad | 34,874 ha | 2024 | up 13.7% | flat |
| 40 | Equatorial Guinea | 24,356 ha | 2024 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 41 | Sri Lanka | 21,685 ha | 2024 | down 8.8% | volatile |
| 42 | Nicaragua | 21,233 ha | 2023 | down 39.5% | volatile |
| 43 | Myanmar | 20,394 ha | 2024 | down 45.2% | volatile |
| 44 | Argentina | 20,031 ha | 2024 | up 6.8% | falling |
| 45 | Papua New Guinea | 16,406 ha | 2024 | up 9.1% | rising |
| 46 | Ecuador | 11,636 ha | 2024 | down 38.0% | falling |
| 47 | Mali | 10,765 ha | 2024 | up 199.3% | volatile |
| 48 | Somalia | 10,329 ha | 2024 | up 8.1% | volatile |
| 49 | Comoros | 9,831 ha | 2024 | up 9.9% | rising |
| 50 | Costa Rica | 9,061 ha | 2024 | down 22.6% | volatile |
| 51 | Fiji | 6,817 ha | 2024 | down 11.7% | volatile |
| 52 | Sudan (former) | 5,981 ha | 2011 | up 3.1% | volatile |
| 53 | French Guiana | 5,300 ha | 2006 | up 213.6% | volatile |
| 54 | Guinea-Bissau | 4,972 ha | 2024 | up 5.4% | volatile |
| 55 | Honduras | 2,938 ha | 2024 | down 4.9% | falling |
| 56 | Gambia | 2,763 ha | 2024 | down 13.5% | rising |
| 57 | Guyana | 2,399 ha | 2024 | up 170.2% | volatile |
| 58 | Malaysia | 2,212 ha | 2024 | down 27.5% | volatile |
| 59 | Mexico | 1,935 ha | 2024 | up 40.1% | volatile |
| 60 | Guatemala | 1,628 ha | 2024 | down 60.4% | rising |
| 61 | Panama | 1,505 ha | 2024 | up 28.0% | falling |
| 62 | El Salvador | 1,474 ha | 2024 | down 33.5% | rising |
| 63 | Burkina Faso | 1,054 ha | 2024 | down 30.0% | volatile |
| 64 | Jamaica | 1,038 ha | 2024 | up 15.3% | falling |
| 65 | Saint Lucia | 625 ha | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 66 | Tonga | 463 ha | 2024 | down 9.2% | volatile |
| 67 | China, Taiwan Province of | 326 ha | 2024 | down 58.3% | volatile |
| 68 | Sao Tome and Principe | 260 ha | 2024 | down 8.5% | rising |
| 69 | French Polynesia | 199 ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 69 | Solomon Islands | 199 ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 71 | New Caledonia | 190 ha | 2024 | down 42.6% | falling |
| 72 | Suriname | 169 ha | 2024 | down 33.7% | falling |
| 73 | Guadeloupe | 155 ha | 2006 | up 29.2% | volatile |
| 74 | Trinidad and Tobago | 149 ha | 2024 | down 65.5% | rising |
| 75 | Martinique | 141 ha | 2006 | up 41.0% | volatile |
| 76 | Mauritius | 107 ha | 2024 | up 245.2% | volatile |
| 77 | Bhutan | 82 ha | 2024 | down 70.1% | falling |
| 78 | Puerto Rico | 70 ha | 2024 | up 29.6% | volatile |
| 79 | Belize | 62 ha | 2024 | up 8.8% | volatile |
| 80 | Samoa | 38 ha | 2024 | up 8.6% | rising |
| 81 | Bahamas | 33 ha | 2024 | down 19.5% | falling |
| 82 | Brunei Darussalam | 24 ha | 2024 | down 87.0% | volatile |
| 83 | Barbados | 23 ha | 2024 | down 17.9% | volatile |
| 84 | Seychelles | 20 ha | 2024 | up 11.1% | volatile |
| 85 | Réunion | 15 ha | 2006 | down 93.3% | volatile |
| 86 | Antigua and Barbuda | 14 ha | 2024 | down 41.7% | volatile |
| 87 | Dominica | 8 ha | 2024 | up 60.0% | volatile |
| 88 | Niue | 7 ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 89 | Maldives | 4 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 90 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 3 ha | 2024 | down 97.1% | volatile |
| 91 | Grenada | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 91 | Singapore | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 91 | Cook Islands | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 33.57 million ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 14.33 million ha
- Africa 27.31 million ha
- Middle Africa 7.72 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 16.21 million ha
- Western Africa 14.67 million ha
- Asia 4.16 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 12.85 million ha
- Eastern Africa 4.92 million ha
- South-Eastern Asia 3.65 million ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 372,781 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 2.68 million ha
- Americas 2.08 million ha
- South America 1.71 million ha
- Eastern Asia 310,183 ha
- Southern Asia 198,399 ha
- Central America 41,327 ha
- Oceania 25,759 ha
- Northern Africa 5,981 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.