Cereals n.e.c. — 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
70
Highest
3.25 million ha
Ethiopia
Lowest
0 ha
Qatar
Median
4,344 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,299

What the numbers show

Cereals n.e.c. — Area harvested is currently reported for 70 countries. The highest value is 3.25 million ha in Ethiopia; the lowest is 0 ha in Qatar.

The median across all reporting countries is 4,344 ha, and the mean is 87,963 ha.

Over the past decade 40 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Slovakia (up 4,831.8%), and the largest decrease in USSR (down 100.0%).

Cereals n.e.c. — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ethiopia 3.25 million ha 2024 up 7.6% rising
2 Ethiopia PDR 1.37 million ha 1992 up 2.8% falling
3 Chad 547,440 ha 2024 up 2.7% volatile
4 Poland 121,450 ha 2024 up 1,298.4% volatile
4 United Republic of Tanzania 54,251 ha 2024 down 19.7% volatile
5 France 109,060 ha 2024 up 262.3% volatile
6 Thailand 99,677 ha 2024 up 10.4% volatile
6 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,218 ha 2024 up 14.9% rising
7 Russian Federation 65,145 ha 2024 up 89.3% rising
8 Kazakhstan 57,952 ha 2024 down 69.8% volatile
9 Eritrea 43,367 ha 2024 up 7.4% rising
10 Lithuania 37,800 ha 2024 up 4,100.0% volatile
11 Burundi 27,022 ha 2024 up 414.3% volatile
12 Argentina 26,770 ha 2024 up 5.0% rising
13 South Africa 25,155 ha 2024 down 25.3% volatile
14 Italy 22,950 ha 2024 down 38.6% volatile
15 Saudi Arabia 21,746 ha 2024 — rising
16 Latvia 20,300 ha 2024 down 20.7% rising
17 Myanmar 19,337 ha 2024 down 7.6% falling
18 China 18,448 ha 2024 up 6.1% volatile
19 China, mainland 18,246 ha 2024 up 6.1% rising
20 Czechoslovakia 18,000 ha 1992 up 3,057.9% volatile
21 Sierra Leone 17,550 ha 2024 up 47.3% volatile
22 Tunisia 17,377 ha 2024 down 4.0% volatile
23 Hungary 14,730 ha 2024 up 503.7% volatile
24 Republic of Korea 11,070 ha 2024 up 7.6% volatile
25 Peru 9,651 ha 2024 up 4.5% rising
26 Austria 9,330 ha 2024 down 28.7% rising
27 Belarus 7,598 ha 2024 down 11.9% volatile
28 Estonia 6,940 ha 2024 up 138.5% rising
29 Spain 5,810 ha 2024 down 82.0% volatile
30 Czechia 5,500 ha 2024 up 29.5% rising
31 Bulgaria 5,420 ha 2024 up 4,167.7% volatile
32 Morocco 5,345 ha 2024 up 50.0% volatile
33 Slovenia 4,650 ha 2024 up 819.0% volatile
34 Serbia 4,517 ha 2024 up 41.9% volatile
35 Armenia 4,170 ha 2024 down 40.3% flat
36 Niger 4,086 ha 2024 down 10.9% rising
37 Ukraine 3,800 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
38 Mexico 3,770 ha 2024 down 24.8% volatile
39 Togo 3,716 ha 2016 up 398.8% volatile
40 Congo 3,677 ha 2024 up 1.4% rising
41 Botswana 3,443 ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
42 Guinea-Bissau 3,429 ha 2024 down 9.1% falling
43 Mongolia 3,345 ha 2024 down 48.0% volatile
44 Uzbekistan 3,344 ha 2024 up 52.0% volatile
45 Colombia 2,696 ha 2024 up 122.3% rising
46 Australia and New Zealand 2,569 ha 2024 up 123.2% rising
46 New Zealand 2,569 ha 2024 up 123.2% rising
48 Zimbabwe 2,304 ha 2024 up 3.3% rising
49 Slovakia 2,170 ha 2024 up 4,831.8% volatile
50 Georgia 1,974 ha 2024 down 1.3% rising
51 Finland 1,920 ha 2024 down 20.0% rising
52 Senegal 1,659 ha 1990 down 72.3% falling
53 Romania 1,610 ha 2024 down 53.1% volatile
54 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,310 ha 2024 up 42.4% rising
55 Bhutan 1,236 ha 2024 down 4.5% falling
56 Belgium 910 ha 2024 down 69.7% volatile
57 Oman 813 ha 2024 up 37.1% volatile
58 Croatia 780 ha 2024 down 66.0% falling
59 Portugal 440 ha 2024 down 78.0% falling
60 Mali 365 ha 2024 up 4.0% volatile
61 Greece 220 ha 2024 down 82.3% volatile
62 Switzerland 210 ha 2024 up 128.3% rising
63 China, Taiwan Province of 202 ha 2024 up 8.0% volatile
64 Palestine 176 ha 2022 down 17.0% rising
65 Luxembourg 130 ha 2024 up 400.0% volatile
66 Ireland 10 ha 2023 down 99.1% volatile
67 USSR 0 ha 1991 down 100.0% volatile
67 Qatar 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.

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Indicator
Cereals n.e.c. — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
99 places, 4,299 data points, 1961–2024
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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.