Ginger, raw — 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
Ginger, raw — Area harvested is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 194,243 ha in India; the lowest is 2 ha in French Polynesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 741.5 ha, and the mean is 11,232 ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 97,122.
Over the past decade 28 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Uganda (up 655.3%), and the largest decrease in Pakistan (down 98.2%).
Ginger, raw — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 194,243 ha | 2024 | up 46.0% | volatile |
| 2 | Nigeria | 89,430 ha | 2024 | up 88.2% | volatile |
| 3 | China | 55,652 ha | 2024 | up 23.8% | volatile |
| 4 | China, mainland | 54,881 ha | 2024 | up 24.1% | volatile |
| 5 | Nepal | 22,430 ha | 2024 | down 7.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Peru | 10,969 ha | 2024 | up 539.2% | volatile |
| 7 | Bangladesh | 10,388 ha | 2024 | up 9.4% | rising |
| 8 | Thailand | 10,322 ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 9 | Indonesia | 7,492 ha | 2024 | down 51.2% | volatile |
| 10 | Philippines | 5,829 ha | 2024 | up 51.4% | rising |
| 11 | Sri Lanka | 5,530 ha | 2024 | up 157.6% | flat |
| 12 | Cameroon | 5,109 ha | 2024 | down 7.7% | volatile |
| 13 | Ethiopia | 3,657 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 14 | Mali | 3,087 ha | 2024 | up 26.9% | rising |
| 15 | Guyana | 2,644 ha | 2024 | up 428.8% | volatile |
| 16 | Republic of Korea | 2,007 ha | 2024 | down 7.9% | volatile |
| 17 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1,709 ha | 2024 | up 29.9% | volatile |
| 18 | Japan | 1,607 ha | 2024 | down 14.8% | rising |
| 19 | Malaysia | 911 ha | 2024 | down 13.1% | rising |
| 20 | Melanesia | 789 ha | 2024 | up 390.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Fiji | 782 ha | 2024 | up 385.7% | volatile |
| 22 | China, Taiwan Province of | 771 ha | 2024 | up 2.5% | volatile |
| 23 | Bhutan | 712 ha | 2024 | down 33.6% | volatile |
| 24 | Caribbean | 613 ha | 2024 | down 36.8% | flat |
| 25 | Côte d'Ivoire | 527 ha | 2024 | down 1.7% | rising |
| 26 | Uganda | 355 ha | 2024 | up 655.3% | volatile |
| 27 | Costa Rica | 334 ha | 2024 | up 86.6% | volatile |
| 28 | Jamaica | 259 ha | 2024 | down 33.4% | rising |
| 29 | Mexico | 243 ha | 2024 | up 170.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Dominican Republic | 193 ha | 2024 | up 116.9% | falling |
| 31 | Madagascar | 153 ha | 2024 | up 173.2% | volatile |
| 32 | Panama | 130 ha | 2024 | up 550.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Mauritius | 115 ha | 2024 | up 238.2% | falling |
| 34 | Ghana | 85 ha | 2024 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 35 | Dominica | 64 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | flat |
| 36 | Kenya | 52 ha | 2024 | up 67.7% | falling |
| 37 | Trinidad and Tobago | 51 ha | 2024 | down 83.8% | volatile |
| 38 | Grenada | 22 ha | 2024 | down 77.1% | volatile |
| 39 | Puerto Rico | 21 ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | falling |
| 40 | Belize | 10 ha | 2024 | — | rising |
| 41 | Pakistan | 5 ha | 2024 | down 98.2% | volatile |
| 42 | Saint Lucia | 4 ha | 2024 | up 300.0% | volatile |
| 43 | Polynesia | 2 ha | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 43 | French Polynesia | 2 ha | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 437,652 ha
- Asia 317,129 ha
- Southern Asia 233,308 ha
- Africa 104,278 ha
- Western Africa 93,128 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 60,281 ha
- Eastern Asia 59,267 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 41,779 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 36,552 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 30,241 ha
- South-eastern Asia 24,554 ha
- Americas 14,964 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.