Flax, raw or retted — 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
Flax, raw or retted — Area harvested is currently reported for 40 countries. The highest value is 632,000 ha in USSR; the lowest is 0 ha in New Zealand.
The median across all reporting countries is 65 ha, and the mean is 23,621 ha.
Over the past decade 10 countries rose and 21 fell. The largest increase was in Italy (up 556.9%), and the largest decrease in Australia and New Zealand (down 100.0%).
Flax, raw or retted — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 632,000 ha | 1991 | down 33.2% | falling |
| 2 | France | 158,290 ha | 2024 | up 138.1% | rising |
| 2 | Türkiye | 14 ha | 2024 | up 180.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Belarus | 35,500 ha | 2024 | down 21.5% | falling |
| 4 | Russian Federation | 32,500 ha | 2024 | down 21.0% | volatile |
| 5 | Belgium | 18,690 ha | 2024 | up 61.1% | flat |
| 6 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 12,003 ha | 1999 | up 4.5% | volatile |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia | 11,433 ha | 1992 | down 58.5% | falling |
| 8 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 9,900 ha | 2024 | down 5.7% | falling |
| 9 | Egypt | 8,600 ha | 2024 | down 4.4% | falling |
| 10 | China | 7,290 ha | 2024 | down 27.1% | volatile |
| 11 | China, mainland | 6,800 ha | 2024 | down 28.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 3,540 ha | 2024 | up 78.5% | volatile |
| 13 | Chile | 2,900 ha | 2024 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 14 | Argentina | 2,800 ha | 2024 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 15 | Poland | 770 ha | 2024 | up 209.2% | volatile |
| 16 | Italy | 670 ha | 2024 | up 556.9% | volatile |
| 17 | China, Taiwan Province of | 490 ha | 2024 | down 2.0% | volatile |
| 18 | Romania | 250 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 19 | Ukraine | 240 ha | 2024 | down 82.9% | volatile |
| 20 | Slovakia | 100 ha | 2023 | up 66.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Yugoslav SFR | 30 ha | 1991 | down 89.7% | volatile |
| 22 | Spain | 20 ha | 2024 | up 5.3% | volatile |
| 23 | Australia and New Zealand | 0 ha | 1981 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Sweden | 0 ha | 1987 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Austria | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Bulgaria | 0 ha | 2022 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Czechia | 0 ha | 2012 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Germany | 0 ha | 1990 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Denmark | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Estonia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Portugal | 0 ha | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Greece | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Croatia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Hungary | 0 ha | 2019 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Japan | 0 ha | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Lithuania | 0 ha | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Republic of Korea | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 23 | Latvia | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 23 | New Zealand | 0 ha | 1981 | down 100.0% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 281,974 ha
- Asia 7,304 ha
- Europe 260,370 ha
- European Union (27) 182,230 ha
- Western Europe 180,520 ha
- Eastern Europe 69,260 ha
- Northern Europe 9,900 ha
- Northern Africa 8,600 ha
- Africa 8,600 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 8,600 ha
- Eastern Asia 7,290 ha
- South America 5,700 ha
- Americas 5,700 ha
- Southern Europe 690 ha
- Western Asia 14 ha
- Oceania 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.