Currants — 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
Currants — Area harvested is currently reported for 43 countries. The highest value is 72,207 ha in Russian Federation; the lowest is 3 ha in Japan.
The median across all reporting countries is 300 ha, and the mean is 3,738 ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 24,069.
Over the past decade 16 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Slovenia (up 900.0%), and the largest decrease in Denmark (down 81.0%).
Currants — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian Federation | 72,207 ha | 2024 | up 51.4% | rising |
| 2 | Poland | 45,000 ha | 2024 | down 0.9% | rising |
| 2 | Republic of Moldova | 560 ha | 2024 | up 112.1% | rising |
| 3 | USSR | 10,300 ha | 1991 | down 48.5% | volatile |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | 6,700 ha | 1992 | down 4.3% | flat |
| 5 | Lithuania | 3,810 ha | 2024 | down 13.2% | falling |
| 6 | Ukraine | 3,300 ha | 2024 | down 26.7% | falling |
| 7 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 3,071 ha | 2024 | up 21.0% | falling |
| 8 | France | 2,940 ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 9 | Germany | 2,200 ha | 2024 | down 10.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Finland | 2,110 ha | 2024 | up 25.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Latvia | 1,400 ha | 2024 | up 188.1% | rising |
| 12 | Hungary | 850 ha | 2024 | down 35.6% | falling |
| 13 | Australia and New Zealand | 748 ha | 2024 | down 47.1% | volatile |
| 14 | New Zealand | 632 ha | 2024 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Czechia | 560 ha | 2024 | down 47.6% | volatile |
| 16 | Azerbaijan | 535 ha | 2024 | up 7.0% | volatile |
| 17 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 530 ha | 2024 | down 15.3% | rising |
| 18 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 430 ha | 1999 | unchanged | falling |
| 19 | Kazakhstan | 344 ha | 2024 | down 23.0% | volatile |
| 20 | Austria | 330 ha | 2024 | up 38.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Denmark | 300 ha | 2024 | down 81.0% | volatile |
| 21 | Norway | 300 ha | 2024 | up 18.1% | volatile |
| 23 | Estonia | 260 ha | 2024 | down 67.9% | volatile |
| 24 | Sweden | 230 ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | falling |
| 25 | Greece | 190 ha | 2024 | up 5.6% | flat |
| 26 | Italy | 180 ha | 2024 | up 56.5% | volatile |
| 27 | Australia | 116 ha | 2024 | down 23.2% | falling |
| 28 | Romania | 110 ha | 2024 | down 44.7% | volatile |
| 29 | Portugal | 100 ha | 2024 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 30 | Uzbekistan | 82 ha | 2024 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 31 | Belgium | 70 ha | 2024 | down 30.0% | falling |
| 32 | Slovakia | 60 ha | 2024 | down 78.5% | volatile |
| 32 | Bulgaria | 60 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 34 | Kyrgyzstan | 31 ha | 2024 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 35 | Ireland | 20 ha | 2024 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 36 | Chile | 11 ha | 2024 | up 37.5% | volatile |
| 37 | Slovenia | 10 ha | 2024 | up 900.0% | volatile |
| 37 | North Macedonia | 10 ha | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 37 | Spain | 10 ha | 2024 | down 50.0% | falling |
| 40 | Yugoslav SFR | 9 ha | 1991 | down 77.5% | volatile |
| 41 | Switzerland | 7 ha | 2024 | down 78.1% | volatile |
| 42 | Japan | 3 ha | 2024 | down 66.7% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 142,538 ha
- Asia 995 ha
- Europe 140,785 ha
- Eastern Europe 122,707 ha
- European Union (27) 61,330 ha
- Northern Europe 11,501 ha
- Western Europe 6,077 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1,562 ha
- Oceania 748 ha
- Western Asia 535 ha
- Southern Europe 500 ha
- Central Asia 457 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 113 ha
- Americas 11 ha
- South America 11 ha
- Eastern Asia 3 ha
- United States of America 0 ha
- Northern 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.