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...

Countries reporting
69
Highest
965,612 ha
India
Lowest
0 ha
French Guiana
Median
3,178 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,247

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

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Indicator
Chillies and peppers, dry (Capsicum spp., Pimenta spp.), raw — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
104 places, 5,247 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.