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...
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 USSR.
The median across all reporting countries is 4,128 ha, and the mean is 87,603 ha.
Over the past decade 40 countries rose and 27 fell. The largest increase was in Slovakia (up 4,831.8%), and the largest decrease in Qatar (down 100.0%).
Cereals n.e.c. — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 5 | France | 109,060 ha | 2024 | up 262.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Thailand | 99,677 ha | 2024 | up 10.4% | volatile |
| 7 | Russian Federation | 65,145 ha | 2024 | up 89.3% | rising |
| 8 | Kazakhstan | 57,952 ha | 2024 | down 69.8% | volatile |
| 9 | United Republic of Tanzania | 54,251 ha | 2024 | down 19.7% | volatile |
| 10 | Eritrea | 43,367 ha | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 11 | Lithuania | 37,800 ha | 2024 | up 4,100.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Burundi | 27,022 ha | 2024 | up 414.3% | volatile |
| 13 | Argentina | 26,770 ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 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 | New Zealand | 2,569 ha | 2024 | up 123.2% | rising |
| 46 | Australia and 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 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 1,218 ha | 2024 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 57 | Belgium | 910 ha | 2024 | down 69.7% | volatile |
| 58 | Oman | 813 ha | 2024 | up 37.1% | volatile |
| 59 | Croatia | 780 ha | 2024 | down 66.0% | falling |
| 60 | Portugal | 440 ha | 2024 | down 78.0% | falling |
| 61 | Mali | 365 ha | 2024 | up 4.0% | volatile |
| 62 | Greece | 220 ha | 2024 | down 82.3% | volatile |
| 63 | Switzerland | 210 ha | 2024 | up 128.3% | rising |
| 64 | China, Taiwan Province of | 202 ha | 2024 | up 8.0% | volatile |
| 65 | Palestine | 176 ha | 2022 | down 17.0% | rising |
| 66 | Luxembourg | 130 ha | 2024 | up 400.0% | volatile |
| 67 | Ireland | 10 ha | 2023 | down 99.1% | volatile |
| 68 | Malta | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 68 | Qatar | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 68 | USSR | 0 ha | 1991 | 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 4.75 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 4.00 million ha
- Africa 4.00 million ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 3.96 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 3.95 million ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 3.90 million ha
- Eastern Africa 3.37 million ha
- Middle Africa 551,117 ha
- Europe 454,700 ha
- European Union (27) 373,430 ha
- Asia 243,908 ha
- Eastern Europe 227,423 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.