Chillies and peppers, dry (Capsicum spp., Pimenta spp.), raw — 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
Chillies and peppers, dry (Capsicum spp., Pimenta spp.), raw — Area harvested is currently reported for 69 countries. The highest value is 965,612 ha in India; the lowest is 0 ha in French Guiana.
The median across all reporting countries is 3,178 ha, and the mean is 32,904 ha.
Over the past decade 44 countries rose and 22 fell. The largest increase was in Benin (up 700.9%), and the largest decrease in Grenada (down 100.0%).
Chillies and peppers, dry (Capsicum spp., Pimenta spp.), raw — Area: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 965,612 ha | 2024 | up 24.6% | rising |
| 2 | Ethiopia PDR | 280,000 ha | 1992 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 3 | Ethiopia | 177,971 ha | 2024 | up 92.6% | volatile |
| 3 | Viet Nam | 69,657 ha | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 4 | Myanmar | 106,333 ha | 2024 | down 4.5% | rising |
| 5 | Bangladesh | 99,066 ha | 2024 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 5 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 10,679 ha | 2024 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 6 | Thailand | 85,334 ha | 2024 | down 2.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Türkiye | 6,890 ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 7 | Romania | 55,293 ha | 2017 | up 78.4% | rising |
| 8 | Pakistan | 49,604 ha | 2024 | down 20.6% | rising |
| 9 | China | 49,186 ha | 2024 | up 9.3% | rising |
| 9 | China, mainland | 49,186 ha | 2024 | up 9.3% | rising |
| 11 | Nigeria | 37,087 ha | 2024 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 12 | Mexico | 30,744 ha | 2024 | down 5.9% | rising |
| 13 | Egypt | 17,052 ha | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 14 | Cameroon | 16,147 ha | 2024 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 15 | Ghana | 14,945 ha | 2024 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 16 | Cambodia | 14,448 ha | 2024 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 17 | Benin | 12,013 ha | 1990 | up 700.9% | volatile |
| 18 | Togo | 8,501 ha | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 19 | Nepal | 8,382 ha | 2024 | up 25.5% | falling |
| 20 | South Africa | 8,292 ha | 2024 | down 7.9% | rising |
| 21 | Tunisia | 8,277 ha | 2024 | up 6.3% | volatile |
| 22 | Sudan (former) | 7,951 ha | 2011 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 23 | Peru | 6,874 ha | 2024 | up 41.1% | volatile |
| 24 | Uzbekistan | 5,965 ha | 2024 | up 272.8% | volatile |
| 24 | Cabo Verde | 123 ha | 2024 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 25 | Mali | 5,350 ha | 2024 | up 4.1% | volatile |
| 26 | Niger | 5,172 ha | 2024 | up 189.9% | volatile |
| 27 | South Sudan | 4,206 ha | 2024 | up 20.2% | rising |
| 28 | Yugoslav SFR | 4,010 ha | 1991 | down 14.7% | falling |
| 29 | Algeria | 4,008 ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | rising |
| 30 | Serbia and Montenegro | 3,783 ha | 2005 | up 24.2% | rising |
| 31 | Uganda | 3,182 ha | 2024 | down 6.4% | falling |
| 32 | Sudan | 3,178 ha | 2024 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 33 | Malaysia | 3,089 ha | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 34 | Czechia | 2,901 ha | 2017 | up 3.1% | falling |
| 35 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2,820 ha | 2024 | down 6.0% | falling |
| 36 | Argentina | 2,749 ha | 2024 | down 3.3% | rising |
| 37 | Kenya | 2,491 ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | falling |
| 38 | Spain | 2,107 ha | 2017 | up 24.9% | volatile |
| 39 | Zimbabwe | 2,072 ha | 2024 | up 434.0% | volatile |
| 40 | Malawi | 2,021 ha | 2024 | down 26.5% | rising |
| 41 | Czechoslovakia | 2,000 ha | 1992 | down 10.6% | rising |
| 42 | Hungary | 1,971 ha | 2017 | down 12.1% | falling |
| 43 | Serbia | 1,863 ha | 2024 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 44 | Madagascar | 1,760 ha | 2024 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 45 | Morocco | 1,422 ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 46 | Jamaica | 1,331 ha | 2024 | up 28.2% | falling |
| 47 | Sierra Leone | 950 ha | 2024 | down 5.3% | rising |
| 48 | North Macedonia | 787 ha | 2024 | up 1.3% | falling |
| 49 | Senegal | 688 ha | 2024 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 50 | Zambia | 435 ha | 2024 | up 569.2% | volatile |
| 51 | Kyrgyzstan | 396 ha | 2024 | down 1.0% | volatile |
| 52 | Bulgaria | 356 ha | 2017 | up 42.4% | volatile |
| 53 | Iraq | 326 ha | 2024 | up 346.6% | volatile |
| 54 | Slovenia | 320 ha | 2017 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 55 | Djibouti | 285 ha | 2024 | down 7.5% | rising |
| 56 | Kazakhstan | 203 ha | 2024 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 57 | Bhutan | 177 ha | 2024 | up 56.6% | volatile |
| 58 | Greece | 116 ha | 2017 | up 36.5% | volatile |
| 59 | Martinique | 82 ha | 2006 | up 134.3% | rising |
| 60 | Central African Republic | 75 ha | 2024 | down 7.4% | falling |
| 61 | Réunion | 45 ha | 2006 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 62 | Maldives | 10 ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 63 | Papua New Guinea | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 64 | Grenada | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 64 | French Guiana | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 1.88 million ha
- Asia 1.47 million ha
- Southern Asia 1.12 million ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 459,019 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 572,831 ha
- Africa 365,986 ha
- Middle Africa 26,901 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 282,156 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 262,980 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 219,690 ha
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 3,295 ha
- Eastern Africa 197,465 ha
- United Republic of Tanzania 3,041 ha
- Western Africa 99,391 ha
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,532 ha
- European Union (27) 63,063 ha
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 1,464 ha
- Eastern Europe 60,520 ha
- Syrian Arab Republic 752 ha
- Eastern Asia 49,186 ha
- Melanesia 1 ha
- Americas 41,697 ha
- Northern Africa 33,937 ha
- Central America 30,744 ha
- Côte d'Ivoire 26,575 ha
- South America 9,622 ha
- Southern Africa 8,292 ha
- Western Asia 7,968 ha
- Central Asia 6,565 ha
- Europe 5,470 ha
- Southern Europe 5,470 ha
- Caribbean 1,331 ha
- Oceania 1 ha
- Northern America 0 ha
- United States of America 0 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.