Dates — 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
Dates — Area harvested is currently reported for 40 countries. The highest value is 257,613 ha in Saudi Arabia; the lowest is 5 ha in Colombia.
The median across all reporting countries is 4,887 ha, and the mean is 35,631 ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 51,523.
Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 5 fell. The largest increase was in Namibia (up 436.0%), and the largest decrease in Spain (down 48.2%).
Dates — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 257,613 ha | 2024 | up 140.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Iraq | 256,758 ha | 2024 | up 8.2% | rising |
| 3 | Algeria | 175,962 ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 135,540 ha | 2024 | down 25.7% | rising |
| 5 | Pakistan | 92,977 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 6 | Egypt | 85,948 ha | 2024 | up 95.2% | rising |
| 7 | Tunisia | 81,732 ha | 2024 | up 67.8% | volatile |
| 8 | Morocco | 66,055 ha | 2024 | up 14.4% | rising |
| 9 | United Arab Emirates | 38,921 ha | 2024 | up 9.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Sudan | 37,065 ha | 2024 | up 1.3% | flat |
| 11 | Sudan (former) | 36,288 ha | 2011 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 12 | Libya | 34,578 ha | 2024 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 13 | Oman | 27,785 ha | 2024 | down 23.4% | rising |
| 14 | Yemen | 14,880 ha | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 15 | China | 12,395 ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 15 | China, mainland | 12,395 ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 17 | Chad | 10,474 ha | 2024 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 18 | Mauritania | 9,336 ha | 2024 | up 19.1% | rising |
| 19 | Niger | 5,673 ha | 2024 | up 16.9% | volatile |
| 20 | Israel | 5,279 ha | 2024 | up 34.4% | volatile |
| 21 | Jordan | 4,495 ha | 2024 | up 102.3% | volatile |
| 22 | Kuwait | 3,623 ha | 2024 | up 36.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Palestine | 3,090 ha | 2022 | up 284.3% | volatile |
| 24 | Türkiye | 2,840 ha | 1990 | up 205.4% | volatile |
| 25 | Somalia | 2,798 ha | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 26 | Qatar | 2,578 ha | 2024 | up 12.6% | volatile |
| 27 | Mexico | 2,448 ha | 2024 | up 109.4% | volatile |
| 28 | Bahrain | 1,961 ha | 2024 | down 42.7% | rising |
| 29 | Namibia | 745 ha | 2024 | up 436.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Benin | 586 ha | 2024 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 31 | Spain | 492 ha | 2017 | down 48.2% | rising |
| 31 | Albania | 492 ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 33 | Kenya | 486 ha | 2024 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 34 | Syrian Arab Republic | 408 ha | 2024 | up 10.9% | volatile |
| 35 | Cameroon | 163 ha | 2024 | up 9.4% | rising |
| 36 | Peru | 158 ha | 2024 | up 122.5% | falling |
| 37 | Eswatini | 98 ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | flat |
| 38 | Mali | 85 ha | 2024 | up 37.1% | volatile |
| 39 | Djibouti | 54 ha | 2024 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 40 | Colombia | 5 ha | 2024 | down 28.6% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 1.38 million ha
- Asia 857,731 ha
- Western Asia 616,819 ha
- Africa 511,841 ha
- Northern Africa 481,342 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 413,647 ha
- Southern Asia 228,517 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 81,957 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 80,953 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 16,331 ha
- Western Africa 15,681 ha
- Eastern Asia 12,395 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.