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
4 Pakistan 796,979 ha 2024 down 16.1% falling
5 Türkiye 459,430 ha 2024 up 18.4% volatile
6 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 429,729 ha 2024 down 18.7% volatile
7 Russian Federation 359,711 ha 2024 up 0.5% falling
8 Myanmar 323,310 ha 2024 down 14.5% rising
9 Ethiopia 207,378 ha 2024 down 13.5% rising
10 Canada 194,100 ha 2024 up 194.1% volatile
11 Mexico 126,331 ha 2024 up 18.7% falling
12 Argentina 111,070 ha 2024 up 161.3% volatile
13 Ethiopia PDR 110,440 ha 1992 down 20.0% falling
14 Syrian Arab Republic 60,352 ha 2024 up 33.2% rising
15 Spain 51,856 ha 2017 up 69.3% volatile
16 Morocco 51,521 ha 2024 down 29.0% falling
17 Algeria 34,036 ha 2024 up 2.2% flat
18 United Republic of Tanzania 25,756 ha 2024 down 75.0% volatile
19 Sudan 25,275 ha 2024 up 276.1% rising
20 Bulgaria 22,564 ha 2017 up 2,645.0% volatile
21 Italy 20,025 ha 2017 up 277.9% volatile
22 Yemen 18,491 ha 2024 down 17.7% volatile
23 Greece 11,026 ha 2017 up 284.0% volatile
24 Kazakhstan 10,886 ha 2024 up 0.6% volatile
25 Uganda 9,024 ha 2024 up 8.7% rising
26 Nepal 8,929 ha 2024 down 4.4% volatile
27 Eritrea 8,666 ha 2024 down 2.2% volatile
28 Sudan (former) 7,373 ha 2011 down 41.5% volatile
29 Tunisia 6,743 ha 2024 up 40.4% volatile
30 Uzbekistan 4,342 ha 2024 up 73.7% volatile
31 Kenya 4,078 ha 2024 down 0.5% volatile
32 Bangladesh 3,946 ha 2024 down 42.6% volatile
33 China, mainland 2,798 ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
33 China 2,798 ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
35 Togo 2,055 ha 2024 up 12.5% rising
36 Malawi 2,019 ha 2024 down 97.9% volatile
37 Lebanon 1,900 ha 2024 down 41.7% rising
38 Portugal 1,833 ha 2017 up 7.9% volatile
39 Israel 1,769 ha 2024 down 50.0% volatile
40 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,686 ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
41 Yugoslav SFR 1,350 ha 1991 up 3.8% falling
42 Romania 1,231 ha 2017 up 105.9% volatile
43 Egypt 981 ha 2024 up 57.5% volatile
44 North Macedonia 830 ha 2024 unchanged rising
45 Republic of Moldova 792 ha 2024 down 12.0% rising
46 Jordan 717 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
47 Palestine 439 ha 2022 down 58.0% volatile
48 Peru 427 ha 2024 down 69.1% volatile
49 Niger 419 ha 2024 up 7.4% rising
50 Slovakia 324 ha 2017 down 50.2% volatile
51 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 291 ha 2024 down 2.0% falling
52 Zimbabwe 258 ha 2024 up 3.6% falling
53 Caribbean 201 ha 2024 up 6,600.0% volatile
54 Libya 137 ha 2024 down 45.2% volatile
55 Armenia 96 ha 2024 down 4.0% flat
56 Hungary 92 ha 2017 down 8.9% volatile
57 Chile 84 ha 2024 down 87.6% volatile
58 Cyprus 59 ha 2017 up 181.0% volatile
59 Iraq 21 ha 2024 down 95.6% volatile
60 Colombia 6 ha 2024 down 89.1% volatile
61 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.

About this data

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
Last refreshed

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.