Cucumbers and gherkins — 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
Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested is currently reported for 147 countries. The highest value is 1.28 million ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Micronesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 800 ha, and the mean is 25,062 ha.
Over the past decade 65 countries rose and 75 fell. The largest increase was in Australia (up 388.1%), and the largest decrease in Ireland (down 100.0%).
Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1.28 million ha | 2024 | up 8.0% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 1.28 million ha | 2024 | up 8.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Cameroon | 280,269 ha | 2024 | up 17.9% | volatile |
| 4 | USSR | 169,500 ha | 1991 | down 11.7% | falling |
| 5 | India | 139,486 ha | 2024 | up 224.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Ukraine | 46,200 ha | 2024 | down 10.8% | falling |
| 7 | Indonesia | 38,247 ha | 2024 | down 21.3% | rising |
| 8 | Russian Federation | 33,499 ha | 2024 | down 52.1% | falling |
| 9 | Uzbekistan | 33,427 ha | 2024 | up 77.8% | volatile |
| 10 | Türkiye | 32,926 ha | 2024 | down 13.9% | rising |
| 11 | Egypt | 19,532 ha | 2024 | down 6.4% | rising |
| 12 | Thailand | 19,178 ha | 2024 | up 5.4% | falling |
| 13 | Sudan | 18,527 ha | 2024 | up 28.8% | rising |
| 14 | Bangladesh | 17,775 ha | 2024 | up 99.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Kazakhstan | 17,154 ha | 2024 | down 2.9% | rising |
| 16 | Mexico | 16,056 ha | 2024 | down 4.5% | rising |
| 17 | Yugoslav SFR | 15,500 ha | 1991 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 18 | Iraq | 14,643 ha | 2024 | down 53.0% | rising |
| 19 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 13,978 ha | 2024 | down 81.0% | rising |
| 20 | Syrian Arab Republic | 11,562 ha | 2024 | up 33.6% | falling |
| 21 | Azerbaijan | 9,204 ha | 2024 | down 33.8% | rising |
| 22 | Japan | 9,160 ha | 2024 | down 17.5% | falling |
| 23 | Spain | 8,620 ha | 2024 | down 3.1% | rising |
| 25 | Czechoslovakia | 7,653 ha | 1992 | down 9.8% | falling |
| 26 | Tajikistan | 6,783 ha | 2024 | up 48.2% | volatile |
| 27 | Kyrgyzstan | 6,753 ha | 2024 | up 29.1% | rising |
| 28 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 6,560 ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 29 | Poland | 6,000 ha | 2024 | down 63.8% | falling |
| 30 | Mali | 5,986 ha | 2024 | up 90.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Belarus | 5,573 ha | 2024 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 32 | Malaysia | 5,432 ha | 2024 | up 16.5% | volatile |
| 33 | Cuba | 4,950 ha | 2024 | down 57.8% | volatile |
| 34 | Romania | 4,540 ha | 2024 | down 64.5% | falling |
| 35 | Côte d'Ivoire | 4,236 ha | 2024 | up 1.1% | falling |
| 36 | Algeria | 4,140 ha | 2024 | down 8.1% | volatile |
| 37 | Republic of Korea | 4,086 ha | 2024 | down 1.4% | falling |
| 38 | Sri Lanka | 3,668 ha | 2024 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 39 | Australia and New Zealand | 3,603 ha | 2024 | up 376.6% | rising |
| 40 | Australia | 3,578 ha | 2024 | up 388.1% | volatile |
| 41 | Republic of Moldova | 3,321 ha | 2024 | up 35.8% | falling |
| 42 | Pakistan | 3,249 ha | 2024 | down 5.2% | volatile |
| 43 | Tunisia | 3,218 ha | 2024 | up 7.5% | volatile |
| 44 | Lebanon | 3,200 ha | 2024 | down 4.7% | rising |
| 45 | Peru | 3,046 ha | 2024 | up 17.1% | volatile |
| 46 | Saudi Arabia | 2,968 ha | 2024 | up 18.2% | volatile |
| 47 | Serbia | 2,926 ha | 2024 | down 30.0% | falling |
| 48 | Albania | 2,768 ha | 2024 | up 21.5% | rising |
| 49 | Palestine | 2,549 ha | 2022 | down 3.0% | falling |
| 50 | Sudan (former) | 2,520 ha | 2011 | down 62.5% | volatile |
| 51 | Italy | 2,430 ha | 2024 | up 10.9% | falling |
| 52 | Philippines | 2,426 ha | 2024 | up 29.4% | rising |
| 53 | Canada | 2,282 ha | 2024 | down 8.6% | falling |
| 54 | Germany | 2,230 ha | 2024 | down 24.3% | falling |
| 55 | Zimbabwe | 2,026 ha | 2024 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 56 | Colombia | 1,948 ha | 2024 | up 20.5% | volatile |
| 57 | Greece | 1,900 ha | 2024 | down 21.6% | falling |
| 58 | China, Taiwan Province of | 1,802 ha | 2024 | down 13.1% | falling |
| 59 | Morocco | 1,739 ha | 2024 | up 11.5% | volatile |
| 60 | Jordan | 1,735 ha | 2024 | down 25.9% | volatile |
| 61 | France | 1,730 ha | 2024 | up 3.5% | falling |
| 62 | Armenia | 1,715 ha | 2024 | down 34.8% | falling |
| 63 | Turkmenistan | 1,455 ha | 2024 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 64 | Georgia | 1,400 ha | 2024 | down 75.4% | volatile |
| 65 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,299 ha | 2024 | down 51.9% | falling |
| 66 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 1,117 ha | 2024 | up 6.1% | rising |
| 67 | Jamaica | 1,111 ha | 2024 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 68 | North Macedonia | 1,102 ha | 2024 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 69 | Malawi | 992 ha | 2024 | down 9.8% | falling |
| 70 | Dominican Republic | 987 ha | 2024 | up 33.0% | volatile |
| 71 | Yemen | 924 ha | 2017 | up 4.3% | volatile |
| 72 | Israel | 918 ha | 2024 | down 40.4% | falling |
| 73 | Bulgaria | 900 ha | 2024 | up 113.8% | volatile |
| 74 | United Arab Emirates | 858 ha | 2024 | up 7.4% | volatile |
| 75 | Lithuania | 800 ha | 2024 | down 37.6% | falling |
| 76 | Mongolia | 738 ha | 2024 | up 91.2% | volatile |
| 77 | Honduras | 669 ha | 2024 | up 23.4% | falling |
| 78 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 640 ha | 2024 | up 7.0% | volatile |
| 79 | Ecuador | 588 ha | 2024 | up 9.7% | volatile |
| 80 | Chile | 573 ha | 2024 | up 63.7% | falling |
| 81 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 553 ha | 2024 | down 6.6% | volatile |
| 82 | Kenya | 508 ha | 2024 | up 157.9% | volatile |
| 83 | Hungary | 480 ha | 2024 | down 27.3% | volatile |
| 84 | Kuwait | 421 ha | 2024 | down 30.9% | volatile |
| 85 | Mauritius | 392 ha | 2024 | down 51.7% | volatile |
| 86 | Melanesia | 389 ha | 2024 | up 327.5% | volatile |
| 87 | Dominica | 345 ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | volatile |
| 88 | Austria | 320 ha | 2024 | down 19.4% | volatile |
| 89 | Martinique | 280 ha | 2006 | up 107.4% | volatile |
| 90 | El Salvador | 276 ha | 2024 | down 16.6% | volatile |
| 91 | Czechia | 270 ha | 2024 | down 23.5% | volatile |
| 92 | Oman | 252 ha | 2024 | up 149.5% | rising |
| 93 | Libya | 247 ha | 2024 | down 47.4% | volatile |
| 94 | Finland | 240 ha | 2024 | down 15.5% | falling |
| 94 | Portugal | 240 ha | 2024 | up 27.0% | volatile |
| 94 | Sweden | 240 ha | 2024 | up 14.3% | volatile |
| 97 | Cyprus | 210 ha | 2024 | down 5.8% | volatile |
| 98 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 206 ha | 1999 | down 74.2% | volatile |
| 99 | Comoros | 202 ha | 2024 | up 44.3% | rising |
| 100 | Trinidad and Tobago | 198 ha | 2024 | up 75.2% | rising |
| 101 | Costa Rica | 186 ha | 2024 | up 3.3% | volatile |
| 102 | Niger | 183 ha | 2024 | up 3.4% | volatile |
| 103 | Bhutan | 170 ha | 2024 | down 2.9% | falling |
| 104 | Brunei Darussalam | 165 ha | 2024 | down 24.7% | rising |
| 105 | Qatar | 163 ha | 2024 | up 56.7% | volatile |
| 106 | Panama | 156 ha | 2024 | down 51.2% | volatile |
| 107 | Madagascar | 152 ha | 2024 | down 0.7% | rising |
| 108 | Guadeloupe | 150 ha | 2006 | up 36.4% | volatile |
| 109 | Puerto Rico | 139 ha | 2024 | up 162.3% | rising |
| 110 | Timor-Leste | 138 ha | 2024 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 111 | Croatia | 120 ha | 2024 | down 15.5% | volatile |
| 112 | Switzerland | 112 ha | 2024 | up 34.9% | rising |
| 113 | Slovenia | 110 ha | 2024 | down 33.7% | falling |
| 114 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 106 ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 115 | Latvia | 100 ha | 2020 | down 58.5% | volatile |
| 115 | Norway | 100 ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | falling |
| 117 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 94 ha | 2024 | up 2.2% | falling |
| 118 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 92 ha | 2024 | down 2.1% | rising |
| 119 | French Guiana | 90 ha | 2006 | down 45.5% | falling |
| 120 | Fiji | 89 ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 121 | Ethiopia | 78 ha | 2024 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 122 | Belgium | 70 ha | 2024 | up 34.6% | falling |
| 122 | Estonia | 70 ha | 2024 | down 72.8% | falling |
| 124 | Denmark | 50 ha | 2024 | down 28.6% | volatile |
| 125 | Grenada | 44 ha | 2024 | down 43.6% | volatile |
| 126 | Saint Lucia | 38 ha | 2024 | down 13.6% | falling |
| 127 | French Polynesia | 37 ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 127 | Polynesia | 37 ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 129 | Guyana | 35 ha | 2024 | down 69.0% | volatile |
| 130 | Belize | 33 ha | 2024 | down 13.2% | volatile |
| 131 | Slovakia | 30 ha | 2024 | down 75.0% | volatile |
| 131 | Cabo Verde | 30 ha | 2024 | down 62.5% | volatile |
| 133 | Barbados | 28 ha | 2024 | down 33.3% | volatile |
| 133 | Suriname | 28 ha | 2024 | down 60.0% | volatile |
| 135 | Antigua and Barbuda | 25 ha | 2024 | up 31.6% | rising |
| 135 | New Zealand | 25 ha | 2024 | up 8.7% | volatile |
| 137 | Gabon | 18 ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 138 | Bahrain | 16 ha | 2024 | up 77.8% | volatile |
| 139 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 10 ha | 2024 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 140 | Ghana | 9 ha | 2024 | down 10.0% | rising |
| 141 | Iceland | 4 ha | 2024 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 142 | Djibouti | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 143 | Ireland | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 143 | Luxembourg | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 143 | Malta | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 143 | Nauru | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 143 | Singapore | 0 ha | 2007 | — | volatile |
| 143 | Micronesia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 2.29 million ha
- Asia 1.69 million ha
- Eastern Asia 1.30 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 420,578 ha
- Africa 390,878 ha
- Middle Africa 280,379 ha
- Southern Asia 178,325 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 142,650 ha
- Europe 129,140 ha
- Eastern Europe 100,813 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 91,642 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 90,602 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.