Chick peas, dry — 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
61
Highest
9.59 million ha
India
Lowest
3 ha
Dominican Republic
Median
4,078 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,500

What the numbers show

Chick peas, dry — Area harvested is currently reported for 61 countries. The highest value is 9.59 million ha in India; the lowest is 3 ha in Dominican Republic.

The median across all reporting countries is 4,078 ha, and the mean is 249,073 ha.

Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Caribbean (up 6,600.0%), and the largest decrease in Malawi (down 97.9%).

Chick peas, dry — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 9.59 million ha 2024 down 3.4% rising
2 Australia and New Zealand 1.04 million ha 2024 up 144.5% volatile
2 Australia 1.04 million ha 2024 up 144.5% volatile
3 Türkiye 459,430 ha 2024 up 18.4% volatile
4 Pakistan 796,979 ha 2024 down 16.1% falling
4 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 429,729 ha 2024 down 18.7% volatile
5 Russian Federation 359,711 ha 2024 up 0.5% falling
5 Syrian Arab Republic 60,352 ha 2024 up 33.2% rising
6 Myanmar 323,310 ha 2024 down 14.5% rising
6 United Republic of Tanzania 25,756 ha 2024 down 75.0% volatile
7 Ethiopia 207,378 ha 2024 down 13.5% rising
7 Republic of Moldova 792 ha 2024 down 12.0% rising
8 Canada 194,100 ha 2024 up 194.1% volatile
8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 291 ha 2024 down 2.0% falling
9 Mexico 126,331 ha 2024 up 18.7% falling
10 Argentina 111,070 ha 2024 up 161.3% volatile
11 Ethiopia PDR 110,440 ha 1992 down 20.0% falling
12 Spain 51,856 ha 2017 up 69.3% volatile
13 Morocco 51,521 ha 2024 down 29.0% falling
14 Algeria 34,036 ha 2024 up 2.2% flat
15 Sudan 25,275 ha 2024 up 276.1% rising
16 Bulgaria 22,564 ha 2017 up 2,645.0% volatile
17 Italy 20,025 ha 2017 up 277.9% volatile
18 Yemen 18,491 ha 2024 down 17.7% volatile
19 Greece 11,026 ha 2017 up 284.0% volatile
20 Kazakhstan 10,886 ha 2024 up 0.6% volatile
21 Uganda 9,024 ha 2024 up 8.7% rising
22 Nepal 8,929 ha 2024 down 4.4% volatile
23 Eritrea 8,666 ha 2024 down 2.2% volatile
24 Sudan (former) 7,373 ha 2011 down 41.5% volatile
24 Caribbean 201 ha 2024 up 6,600.0% volatile
25 Tunisia 6,743 ha 2024 up 40.4% volatile
26 Uzbekistan 4,342 ha 2024 up 73.7% volatile
27 Kenya 4,078 ha 2024 down 0.5% volatile
28 Bangladesh 3,946 ha 2024 down 42.6% volatile
29 China 2,798 ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
29 China, mainland 2,798 ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
31 Togo 2,055 ha 2024 up 12.5% rising
32 Malawi 2,019 ha 2024 down 97.9% volatile
33 Lebanon 1,900 ha 2024 down 41.7% rising
34 Portugal 1,833 ha 2017 up 7.9% volatile
35 Israel 1,769 ha 2024 down 50.0% volatile
36 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,686 ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
37 Yugoslav SFR 1,350 ha 1991 up 3.8% falling
38 Romania 1,231 ha 2017 up 105.9% volatile
39 Egypt 981 ha 2024 up 57.5% volatile
40 North Macedonia 830 ha 2024 unchanged rising
41 Jordan 717 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
42 Palestine 439 ha 2022 down 58.0% volatile
43 Peru 427 ha 2024 down 69.1% volatile
44 Niger 419 ha 2024 up 7.4% rising
45 Slovakia 324 ha 2017 down 50.2% volatile
46 Zimbabwe 258 ha 2024 up 3.6% falling
47 Libya 137 ha 2024 down 45.2% volatile
48 Armenia 96 ha 2024 down 4.0% flat
49 Hungary 92 ha 2017 down 8.9% volatile
50 Chile 84 ha 2024 down 87.6% volatile
51 Cyprus 59 ha 2017 up 181.0% volatile
52 Iraq 21 ha 2024 down 95.6% volatile
53 Colombia 6 ha 2024 down 89.1% volatile
54 Dominican Republic 3 ha 2024 unchanged 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
Chick peas, dry — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
87 places, 4,500 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.