Cow 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
Cow peas, dry — Area harvested is currently reported for 47 countries. The highest value is 5.58 million ha in Niger; the lowest is 0 ha in Japan.
The median across all reporting countries is 11,074 ha, and the mean is 330,647 ha.
Over the past decade 25 countries rose and 19 fell. The largest increase was in Croatia (up 838.0%), and the largest decrease in Japan (down 100.0%).
Cow peas, dry — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niger | 5.58 million ha | 2024 | up 4.7% | volatile |
| 2 | Nigeria | 5.14 million ha | 2024 | up 38.9% | rising |
| 3 | Burkina Faso | 1.52 million ha | 2024 | up 32.2% | volatile |
| 4 | Cameroon | 555,235 ha | 2024 | up 107.3% | volatile |
| 5 | Mali | 485,921 ha | 2024 | up 37.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Mozambique | 351,267 ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | rising |
| 7 | Senegal | 300,395 ha | 2024 | up 144.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Kenya | 234,351 ha | 2024 | down 16.9% | rising |
| 9 | Sudan | 231,525 ha | 2024 | down 11.2% | rising |
| 10 | Benin | 220,485 ha | 2024 | up 89.2% | rising |
| 13 | Ghana | 191,625 ha | 2024 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 14 | Sudan (former) | 145,740 ha | 2011 | up 757.3% | volatile |
| 15 | Myanmar | 128,014 ha | 2024 | down 4.1% | volatile |
| 16 | Malawi | 124,813 ha | 2024 | up 59.1% | rising |
| 17 | Zimbabwe | 65,888 ha | 2024 | up 22.2% | volatile |
| 19 | Haiti | 40,818 ha | 2024 | down 2.9% | falling |
| 20 | Madagascar | 33,935 ha | 2024 | up 197.7% | volatile |
| 20 | South Africa | 10,390 ha | 2024 | down 7.1% | falling |
| 21 | Yemen | 33,662 ha | 2024 | up 49.8% | rising |
| 22 | Uganda | 25,929 ha | 2024 | up 2.2% | falling |
| 23 | Mauritania | 22,493 ha | 2024 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 24 | China | 14,604 ha | 2024 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 24 | China, mainland | 14,604 ha | 2024 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 26 | Peru | 13,038 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 27 | Sri Lanka | 11,074 ha | 2024 | down 3.9% | volatile |
| 28 | Australia | 6,304 ha | 1993 | — | volatile |
| 28 | Australia and New Zealand | 6,304 ha | 1993 | — | volatile |
| 30 | Serbia and Montenegro | 4,655 ha | 2005 | down 41.5% | volatile |
| 31 | Serbia | 4,645 ha | 2024 | down 2.3% | falling |
| 32 | Guinea-Bissau | 4,309 ha | 2024 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 33 | Yugoslav SFR | 4,000 ha | 1991 | up 29.6% | volatile |
| 34 | Gambia | 3,608 ha | 2024 | up 12.8% | falling |
| 35 | Zambia | 3,584 ha | 2024 | down 50.5% | volatile |
| 36 | North Macedonia | 2,088 ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 37 | Eswatini | 1,950 ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 38 | Egypt | 1,922 ha | 2024 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 39 | Croatia | 938 ha | 2017 | up 838.0% | volatile |
| 40 | Jamaica | 250 ha | 2024 | down 7.4% | volatile |
| 41 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 200 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 42 | Philippines | 173 ha | 2024 | down 46.8% | volatile |
| 43 | Trinidad and Tobago | 168 ha | 2024 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 44 | Cyprus | 142 ha | 2017 | up 91.9% | volatile |
| 45 | Guyana | 89 ha | 2024 | down 6.3% | falling |
| 47 | Iraq | 55 ha | 2024 | down 73.8% | volatile |
| 48 | Palestine | 19 ha | 2022 | down 42.4% | volatile |
| 49 | Hungary | 5 ha | 2017 | down 44.4% | volatile |
| 50 | Japan | 0 ha | 1998 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 15.78 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 10.25 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 9.79 million ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 7.81 million ha
- Americas 63,633 ha
- Northern America 9,270 ha
- United States of America 9,270 ha
- European Union (27) 1,085 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.