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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- World 14.12 million ha
- Asia 11.71 million ha
- Southern Asia 10.83 million ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 635,267 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1.50 million ha
- Oceania 1.04 million ha
- Americas 631,779 ha
- Western Asia 543,180 ha
- Northern America 393,370 ha
- Africa 378,347 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 377,042 ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 201 ha
- Europe 363,019 ha
- Eastern Europe 360,503 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 323,310 ha
- Eastern Africa 257,179 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 245,264 ha
- United States of America 199,270 ha
- Central America 126,331 ha
- Northern Africa 118,693 ha
- South America 111,878 ha
- European Union (27) 109,010 ha
- Central Asia 15,228 ha
- Eastern Asia 2,798 ha
- Southern Europe 2,516 ha
- Western Africa 2,474 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.