Chestnuts, in shell — 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
Chestnuts, in shell — Area harvested is currently reported for 31 countries. The highest value is 268,254 ha in China, mainland; the lowest is 0 ha in Slovakia.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,456 ha, and the mean is 26,538 ha.
Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in Slovenia (up 733.3%), and the largest decrease in Slovakia (down 100.0%).
Chestnuts, in shell — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China, mainland | 268,254 ha | 2024 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 1 | China | 268,254 ha | 2024 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 2 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 58,720 ha | 2024 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 3 | Portugal | 51,170 ha | 2024 | up 44.7% | rising |
| 3 | Türkiye | 14,007 ha | 2024 | up 26.0% | volatile |
| 4 | Italy | 39,420 ha | 2024 | up 83.3% | rising |
| 4 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 5,325 ha | 2024 | down 2.9% | rising |
| 5 | Spain | 38,540 ha | 2024 | up 23.7% | volatile |
| 6 | Republic of Korea | 29,895 ha | 2024 | down 9.4% | volatile |
| 7 | Japan | 15,200 ha | 2024 | down 24.8% | falling |
| 8 | Greece | 9,860 ha | 2024 | up 22.4% | rising |
| 9 | France | 9,200 ha | 2024 | up 18.6% | falling |
| 10 | USSR | 4,748 ha | 1991 | up 31.9% | rising |
| 11 | Albania | 2,451 ha | 2024 | down 18.7% | rising |
| 12 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,669 ha | 2024 | up 31.8% | volatile |
| 13 | Chile | 1,456 ha | 2024 | up 207.8% | volatile |
| 14 | Yugoslav SFR | 1,322 ha | 1991 | up 65.2% | rising |
| 15 | North Macedonia | 961 ha | 2024 | up 36.3% | volatile |
| 16 | Croatia | 530 ha | 2024 | up 307.7% | rising |
| 17 | Hungary | 390 ha | 2024 | down 20.4% | falling |
| 18 | Serbia and Montenegro | 254 ha | 2005 | down 53.4% | falling |
| 19 | Switzerland | 232 ha | 2024 | up 364.0% | falling |
| 20 | Azerbaijan | 228 ha | 2024 | down 55.7% | falling |
| 21 | Cameroon | 144 ha | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 22 | Peru | 136 ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | volatile |
| 23 | Ukraine | 100 ha | 2024 | up 25.0% | flat |
| 23 | Slovenia | 100 ha | 2024 | up 733.3% | volatile |
| 25 | Zimbabwe | 78 ha | 2024 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 26 | Bulgaria | 30 ha | 2024 | down 70.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Romania | 10 ha | 2024 | up 400.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Slovakia | 0 ha | 2019 | 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 548,617 ha
- Asia 332,909 ha
- Eastern Asia 318,674 ha
- Europe 154,663 ha
- European Union (27) 149,250 ha
- Southern Europe 144,701 ha
- Middle Africa 144 ha
- Americas 60,313 ha
- South America 60,313 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 59,988 ha
- Western Asia 14,235 ha
- Western Europe 9,432 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 5,547 ha
- Eastern Europe 530 ha
- Africa 222 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 136 ha
- Eastern Africa 78 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.