Cereals n.e.c. — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Cereals n.e.c. — Area harvested was 3.95 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cereals n.e.c. — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cereals n.e.c. — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) is 3.95 million ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.5% on the previous year and up 6.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals n.e.c. — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 3.98 million ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 1.26 million ha, in 1975.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 4th of 24 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cereals n.e.c. — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2.03 million ha | — |
| 1962 | 2.19 million ha | +8.0% |
| 1963 | 2.16 million ha | -1.5% |
| 1964 | 2.16 million ha | +0.2% |
| 1965 | 2.16 million ha | +0.1% |
| 1966 | 2.17 million ha | +0.4% |
| 1967 | 2.17 million ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 2.19 million ha | +0.6% |
| 1969 | 2.21 million ha | +1.1% |
| 1970 | 2.23 million ha | +1.1% |
| 1971 | 2.26 million ha | +1.1% |
| 1972 | 2.28 million ha | +0.9% |
| 1973 | 1.70 million ha | -25.4% |
| 1974 | 1.73 million ha | +1.5% |
| 1975 | 1.26 million ha | -27.1% |
| 1976 | 1.48 million ha | +17.9% |
| 1977 | 1.38 million ha | -7.0% |
| 1978 | 1.35 million ha | -1.9% |
| 1979 | 1.45 million ha | +7.1% |
| 1980 | 1.58 million ha | +9.5% |
| 1981 | 1.45 million ha | -8.5% |
| 1982 | 1.41 million ha | -2.6% |
| 1983 | 1.50 million ha | +6.2% |
| 1984 | 1.38 million ha | -7.7% |
| 1985 | 1.49 million ha | +7.7% |
| 1986 | 1.37 million ha | -8.1% |
| 1987 | 1.39 million ha | +1.1% |
| 1988 | 1.38 million ha | -0.6% |
| 1989 | 1.58 million ha | +15.0% |
| 1990 | 1.32 million ha | -16.6% |
| 1991 | 1.43 million ha | +8.4% |
| 1992 | 1.50 million ha | +4.9% |
| 1993 | 1.54 million ha | +2.3% |
| 1994 | 1.62 million ha | +5.6% |
| 1995 | 2.06 million ha | +27.0% |
| 1996 | 2.32 million ha | +12.3% |
| 1997 | 2.41 million ha | +3.9% |
| 1998 | 2.05 million ha | -14.8% |
| 1999 | 2.42 million ha | +17.8% |
| 2000 | 2.37 million ha | -1.9% |
| 2001 | 2.45 million ha | +3.2% |
| 2002 | 2.13 million ha | -12.9% |
| 2003 | 3.17 million ha | +48.7% |
| 2004 | 3.32 million ha | +4.8% |
| 2005 | 3.62 million ha | +9.1% |
| 2006 | 2.66 million ha | -26.6% |
| 2007 | 2.98 million ha | +12.2% |
| 2008 | 3.43 million ha | +15.0% |
| 2009 | 3.15 million ha | -8.2% |
| 2010 | 3.98 million ha | +26.6% |
| 2011 | 3.25 million ha | -18.4% |
| 2012 | 3.25 million ha | -0.0% |
| 2013 | 3.58 million ha | +10.1% |
| 2014 | 3.70 million ha | +3.3% |
| 2015 | 3.42 million ha | -7.5% |
| 2016 | 3.61 million ha | +5.5% |
| 2017 | 3.64 million ha | +0.9% |
| 2018 | 3.90 million ha | +7.2% |
| 2019 | 3.94 million ha | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 3.90 million ha | -0.9% |
| 2021 | 3.69 million ha | -5.5% |
| 2022 | 3.72 million ha | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 3.82 million ha | +2.7% |
| 2024 | 3.95 million ha | +3.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2.16 million ha | 2.03 million ha | 2.21 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.71 million ha | 1.26 million ha | 2.28 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.45 million ha | 1.37 million ha | 1.58 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.87 million ha | 1.32 million ha | 2.42 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.93 million ha | 2.13 million ha | 3.62 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3.63 million ha | 3.25 million ha | 3.98 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3.82 million ha | 3.69 million ha | 3.95 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 1 Ethiopia 3.25 million ha compare
- 2 Ethiopia PDR 1.37 million ha compare
- 3 Chad 547,440 ha compare
- 4 Poland 121,450 ha compare
- 4 United Republic of Tanzania 54,251 ha compare
- 5 France 109,060 ha compare
- 6 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,218 ha compare
- 6 Thailand 99,677 ha compare
- 7 Russian Federation 65,145 ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals n.e.c. — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Cereals n.e.c. — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 3.95 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals n.e.c. — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 3.98 million ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest cereals n.e.c. — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.26 million ha in 1975.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for cereals n.e.c. — area harvested?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 4th out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cereals n.e.c. — area harvested rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cereals n.e.c. — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.