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...

Countries reporting
105
Highest
10.72 million ha
Nigeria
Lowest
0 ha
Cook Islands
Median
11,636 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
7,733

What the numbers show

Cassava, fresh — Area harvested is currently reported for 105 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 11,636 ha, and the mean is 321,248 ha.

Over the past decade 58 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Nigeria 10.72 million ha 2024 up 51.1% volatile
2 Democratic Republic of the Congo 5.71 million ha 2024 up 33.2% volatile
3 United Republic of Tanzania 1.64 million ha 2024 up 105.1% rising
4 Thailand 1.42 million ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
5 Côte d'Ivoire 1.39 million ha 2024 up 112.9% volatile
6 Brazil 1.23 million ha 2024 down 21.4% falling
7 Angola 1.09 million ha 2024 up 43.8% rising
8 Ghana 1.08 million ha 2024 up 21.4% volatile
9 Mozambique 926,390 ha 2024 up 6.4% rising
10 Uganda 826,544 ha 2024 down 3.0% volatile
11 Cambodia 598,220 ha 2024 up 16.1% volatile
12 Indonesia 553,450 ha 2024 down 44.8% falling
13 Viet Nam 516,694 ha 2024 down 6.5% rising
14 Cameroon 466,886 ha 2024 up 44.7% volatile
15 Burundi 341,757 ha 2024 up 12.2% volatile
16 Guinea 336,706 ha 2024 up 86.7% volatile
17 Togo 333,367 ha 2024 up 18.0% volatile
19 Madagascar 322,141 ha 2024 down 14.4% rising
20 China 310,183 ha 2024 up 6.9% rising
21 China, mainland 309,857 ha 2024 up 7.1% rising
21 Réunion 15 ha 2006 down 93.3% volatile
22 Benin 298,564 ha 2024 up 0.6% volatile
23 Lao People's Democratic Republic 295,000 ha 2024 up 387.8% volatile
24 Zambia 267,331 ha 2024 up 434.7% volatile
25 Sierra Leone 262,326 ha 2024 down 21.8% volatile
26 Malawi 246,235 ha 2024 up 9.0% volatile
27 Philippines 236,084 ha 2024 up 8.9% rising
28 India 176,627 ha 2024 down 22.6% falling
29 Paraguay 165,150 ha 2024 down 8.2% rising
30 Congo 162,292 ha 2024 up 3.4% rising
31 Haiti 150,434 ha 2024 up 9.0% rising
32 Cuba 124,436 ha 2024 up 81.1% rising
33 Peru 112,068 ha 2024 up 14.4% rising
34 Colombia 104,906 ha 2024 down 46.8% falling
35 Senegal 96,844 ha 2024 up 364.1% volatile
36 South Sudan 95,885 ha 2024 up 13.2% rising
37 Rwanda 93,511 ha 2024 up 35.8% volatile
38 Kenya 81,944 ha 2024 up 28.6% flat
39 Liberia 80,904 ha 2024 up 7.5% rising
40 Gabon 58,031 ha 2024 down 5.0% rising
41 Zimbabwe 53,243 ha 2024 up 2.4% rising
42 Dominican Republic 47,251 ha 2024 up 101.6% falling
43 Niger 42,156 ha 2024 up 533.8% volatile
44 Chad 34,874 ha 2024 up 13.7% flat
45 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 32,311 ha 2024 up 12.6% flat
46 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 29,897 ha 2024 down 3.3% rising
47 Equatorial Guinea 24,356 ha 2024 up 3.8% rising
48 Melanesia 24,241 ha 2024 up 4.2% rising
49 Sri Lanka 21,685 ha 2024 down 8.8% volatile
50 Nicaragua 21,233 ha 2023 down 39.5% volatile
51 Myanmar 20,394 ha 2024 down 45.2% volatile
52 Argentina 20,031 ha 2024 up 6.8% falling
53 Papua New Guinea 16,406 ha 2024 up 9.1% rising
54 Ecuador 11,636 ha 2024 down 38.0% falling
55 Mali 10,765 ha 2024 up 199.3% volatile
56 Somalia 10,329 ha 2024 up 8.1% volatile
57 Comoros 9,831 ha 2024 up 9.9% rising
58 Costa Rica 9,061 ha 2024 down 22.6% volatile
59 Fiji 6,817 ha 2024 down 11.7% volatile
60 Sudan (former) 5,981 ha 2011 up 3.1% volatile
61 French Guiana 5,300 ha 2006 up 213.6% volatile
62 Guinea-Bissau 4,972 ha 2024 up 5.4% volatile
63 Timor-Leste 4,850 ha 2024 down 32.5% rising
64 Honduras 2,938 ha 2024 down 4.9% falling
65 Gambia 2,763 ha 2024 down 13.5% rising
66 Guyana 2,399 ha 2024 up 170.2% volatile
67 Malaysia 2,212 ha 2024 down 27.5% volatile
68 Mexico 1,935 ha 2024 up 40.1% volatile
69 Guatemala 1,628 ha 2024 down 60.4% rising
70 Panama 1,505 ha 2024 up 28.0% falling
71 El Salvador 1,474 ha 2024 down 33.5% rising
72 Burkina Faso 1,054 ha 2024 down 30.0% volatile
73 Jamaica 1,038 ha 2024 up 15.3% falling
74 Micronesia 810 ha 2024 down 6.1% falling
74 Micronesia (Federated States of) 810 ha 2024 down 6.1% falling
76 Polynesia 707 ha 2024 down 7.7% falling
77 Saint Lucia 625 ha 2024 up 7.4% rising
78 Tonga 463 ha 2024 down 9.2% volatile
79 China, Taiwan Province of 326 ha 2024 down 58.3% volatile
80 Cabo Verde 265 ha 2024 down 61.1% rising
81 Sao Tome and Principe 260 ha 2024 down 8.5% rising
82 French Polynesia 199 ha 2024 down 7.0% falling
82 Solomon Islands 199 ha 2024 up 6.4% rising
84 New Caledonia 190 ha 2024 down 42.6% falling
85 Suriname 169 ha 2024 down 33.7% falling
86 Guadeloupe 155 ha 2006 up 29.2% volatile
87 Trinidad and Tobago 149 ha 2024 down 65.5% rising
88 Martinique 141 ha 2006 up 41.0% volatile
89 Mauritius 107 ha 2024 up 245.2% volatile
90 Bhutan 82 ha 2024 down 70.1% falling
91 Puerto Rico 70 ha 2024 up 29.6% volatile
92 Belize 62 ha 2024 up 8.8% volatile
93 Samoa 38 ha 2024 up 8.6% rising
94 Bahamas 33 ha 2024 down 19.5% falling
95 Brunei Darussalam 24 ha 2024 down 87.0% volatile
96 Barbados 23 ha 2024 down 17.9% volatile
97 Seychelles 20 ha 2024 up 11.1% volatile
98 Antigua and Barbuda 14 ha 2024 down 41.7% volatile
99 Dominica 8 ha 2024 up 60.0% volatile
100 Niue 7 ha 2024 unchanged falling
101 Maldives 4 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
102 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3 ha 2024 down 97.1% volatile
103 Grenada 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% falling
103 Singapore 0 ha 2024 volatile
103 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.

About this data

Indicator
Cassava, fresh — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
126 places, 7,733 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.