Castor oil seeds — 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
Castor oil seeds — Area harvested is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 827,889 ha in India; the lowest is 0 ha in El Salvador.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,738 ha, and the mean is 28,657 ha.
Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Thailand (up 2,241.1%), and the largest decrease in Nicaragua (down 100.0%).
Castor oil seeds — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 827,889 ha | 2024 | down 24.0% | rising |
| 2 | Mozambique, Republic of | 201,430 ha | 2024 | up 8.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Brazil | 46,440 ha | 2024 | down 26.9% | volatile |
| 4 | USSR | 33,400 ha | 1991 | down 76.0% | falling |
| 5 | Kenya | 20,000 ha | 2024 | up 53.8% | rising |
| 6 | Angola | 16,525 ha | 2024 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 7 | Myanmar | 15,423 ha | 2024 | up 11.2% | rising |
| 8 | Thailand | 14,000 ha | 2024 | up 2,241.1% | volatile |
| 9 | Ethiopia PDR | 13,700 ha | 1992 | up 14.2% | falling |
| 10 | China, mainland | 10,000 ha | 2024 | down 78.3% | falling |
| 10 | China (People’s Republic of) | 10,000 ha | 2024 | down 78.3% | falling |
| 12 | South Africa | 9,031 ha | 2024 | up 2.7% | falling |
| 13 | Madagascar, Republic of | 7,891 ha | 2024 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 14 | Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of | 5,970 ha | 2024 | up 15.1% | rising |
| 15 | Indonesia | 4,746 ha | 2024 | up 48.3% | volatile |
| 16 | Paraguay | 4,000 ha | 2024 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 17 | Pakistan | 3,999 ha | 2024 | up 62.8% | volatile |
| 18 | Uganda | 3,000 ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 19 | Haiti | 2,712 ha | 2024 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 20 | Ecuador | 2,000 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 20 | Sudan (former) | 2,000 ha | 2011 | unchanged | volatile |
| 20 | Sudan | 2,000 ha | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 23 | Cambodia | 1,477 ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Togo | 1,029 ha | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 25 | Benin | 882 ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 26 | Russian Federation | 511 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 27 | Bangladesh | 391 ha | 2024 | up 2.4% | falling |
| 28 | Morocco | 278 ha | 2024 | up 7.8% | falling |
| 29 | Ukraine | 90 ha | 2002 | down 81.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Yugoslav SFR | 54 ha | 1991 | down 11.5% | volatile |
| 31 | Philippines | 45 ha | 2024 | down 41.6% | volatile |
| 32 | Mexico | 5 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Republic of Korea | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Hungary | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Italy | 0 ha | 2009 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Libya | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Nicaragua | 0 ha | 1984 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Dominican Republic | 0 ha | 1985 | down 100.0% | rising |
| 33 | Peru | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Bulgaria | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Romania | 0 ha | 2005 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Burundi | 0 ha | 1998 | — | volatile |
| 33 | Argentina | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 33 | El Salvador | 0 ha | 1995 | 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 1.22 million ha
- Asia 886,663 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 289,007 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 251,591 ha
- Americas 55,157 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 12,970 ha
- South America 52,440 ha
- European Union (27) 20 ha
- South-eastern Asia 43,691 ha
- United States of America 0 ha
- Eastern Asia 10,000 ha
- Caribbean 2,712 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.