Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested was 420,578 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) stood at 420,578 ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 13.4% on the previous year and up 39.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 420,578 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 7,120 ha, in 1961.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 3rd of 29 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,120 ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,363 ha | +17.5% |
| 1963 | 10,052 ha | +20.2% |
| 1964 | 10,937 ha | +8.8% |
| 1965 | 10,918 ha | -0.2% |
| 1966 | 9,013 ha | -17.4% |
| 1967 | 11,306 ha | +25.4% |
| 1968 | 13,056 ha | +15.5% |
| 1969 | 14,598 ha | +11.8% |
| 1970 | 11,560 ha | -20.8% |
| 1971 | 11,444 ha | -1.0% |
| 1972 | 14,059 ha | +22.9% |
| 1973 | 12,359 ha | -12.1% |
| 1974 | 14,893 ha | +20.5% |
| 1975 | 16,628 ha | +11.6% |
| 1976 | 19,596 ha | +17.8% |
| 1977 | 21,974 ha | +12.1% |
| 1978 | 21,875 ha | -0.5% |
| 1979 | 20,727 ha | -5.2% |
| 1980 | 28,996 ha | +39.9% |
| 1981 | 27,568 ha | -4.9% |
| 1982 | 29,238 ha | +6.1% |
| 1983 | 31,249 ha | +6.9% |
| 1984 | 24,475 ha | -21.7% |
| 1985 | 29,799 ha | +21.8% |
| 1986 | 24,513 ha | -17.7% |
| 1987 | 26,863 ha | +9.6% |
| 1988 | 26,820 ha | -0.2% |
| 1989 | 20,610 ha | -23.2% |
| 1990 | 47,961 ha | +132.7% |
| 1991 | 56,515 ha | +17.8% |
| 1992 | 71,103 ha | +25.8% |
| 1993 | 81,219 ha | +14.2% |
| 1994 | 90,205 ha | +11.1% |
| 1995 | 99,217 ha | +10.0% |
| 1996 | 109,551 ha | +10.4% |
| 1997 | 117,762 ha | +7.5% |
| 1998 | 130,490 ha | +10.8% |
| 1999 | 142,362 ha | +9.1% |
| 2000 | 143,178 ha | +0.6% |
| 2001 | 136,752 ha | -4.5% |
| 2002 | 136,335 ha | -0.3% |
| 2003 | 160,942 ha | +18.0% |
| 2004 | 154,937 ha | -3.7% |
| 2005 | 129,265 ha | -16.6% |
| 2006 | 137,114 ha | +6.1% |
| 2007 | 153,716 ha | +12.1% |
| 2008 | 195,510 ha | +27.2% |
| 2009 | 219,164 ha | +12.1% |
| 2010 | 232,369 ha | +6.0% |
| 2011 | 252,711 ha | +8.8% |
| 2012 | 254,584 ha | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 254,353 ha | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 302,243 ha | +18.8% |
| 2015 | 330,443 ha | +9.3% |
| 2016 | 383,651 ha | +16.1% |
| 2017 | 334,889 ha | -12.7% |
| 2018 | 356,028 ha | +6.3% |
| 2019 | 370,340 ha | +4.0% |
| 2020 | 361,373 ha | -2.4% |
| 2021 | 361,648 ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 366,550 ha | +1.4% |
| 2023 | 371,008 ha | +1.2% |
| 2024 | 420,578 ha | +13.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,596 ha | 7,120 ha | 14,598 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 16,512 ha | 11,444 ha | 21,974 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 27,013 ha | 20,610 ha | 31,249 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 94,638 ha | 47,961 ha | 142,362 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 156,691 ha | 129,265 ha | 219,164 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 307,161 ha | 232,369 ha | 383,651 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 376,231 ha | 361,373 ha | 420,578 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 1 China 1.28 million ha compare
- 2 China, mainland 1.28 million ha compare
- 3 Cameroon 280,269 ha compare
- 4 Türkiye 32,926 ha compare
- 4 USSR 169,500 ha compare
- 5 India 139,486 ha compare
- 5 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 13,978 ha compare
- 6 Syrian Arab Republic 11,562 ha compare
- 6 Ukraine 46,200 ha compare
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- Pulses, Total — Area harvested, annual growth rate -0.9081 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 4.33 % change on previous year (2024)
- Pulses, Total — Production, annual growth rate 3.38 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Area harvested, annual growth rate 0.3601 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Yield, annual growth rate 1.89 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Production, annual growth rate 3.62 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goats — Stocks, annual growth rate 2.71 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 1.06 % change on previous year (2024)
- Poultry Birds — Stocks, annual growth rate 2.66 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 420,578 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 420,578 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,120 ha in 1961.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 3rd out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 39.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.