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...

Countries reporting
45
Highest
194,243 ha
India
Lowest
2 ha
French Polynesia
Median
712 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
2,961

What the numbers show

Ginger, raw — Area harvested is currently reported for 45 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 712 ha, and the mean is 10,982 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 14 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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
5 United Republic of Tanzania 1,709 ha 2024 up 29.9% volatile
6 Peru 10,969 ha 2024 up 539.2% volatile
6 Melanesia 789 ha 2024 up 390.1% volatile
7 Bangladesh 10,388 ha 2024 up 9.4% rising
7 Polynesia 2 ha 2024 unchanged flat
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
15 Caribbean 613 ha 2024 down 36.8% flat
16 Republic of Korea 2,007 ha 2024 down 7.9% volatile
16 Côte d'Ivoire 527 ha 2024 down 1.7% rising
17 Japan 1,607 ha 2024 down 14.8% rising
18 Malaysia 911 ha 2024 down 13.1% rising
19 Fiji 782 ha 2024 up 385.7% volatile
20 China, Taiwan Province of 771 ha 2024 up 2.5% volatile
21 Bhutan 712 ha 2024 down 33.6% volatile
22 Uganda 355 ha 2024 up 655.3% volatile
23 Costa Rica 334 ha 2024 up 86.6% volatile
24 Jamaica 259 ha 2024 down 33.4% rising
25 Mexico 243 ha 2024 up 170.0% volatile
26 Dominican Republic 193 ha 2024 up 116.9% falling
27 Madagascar 153 ha 2024 up 173.2% volatile
28 Panama 130 ha 2024 up 550.0% volatile
29 Mauritius 115 ha 2024 up 238.2% falling
30 Ghana 85 ha 2024 up 7.6% rising
31 Dominica 64 ha 2024 up 6.7% flat
32 Kenya 52 ha 2024 up 67.7% falling
33 Trinidad and Tobago 51 ha 2024 down 83.8% volatile
34 Grenada 22 ha 2024 down 77.1% volatile
35 Puerto Rico 21 ha 2024 up 5.0% falling
36 Belize 10 ha 2024 — rising
36 Réunion 10 ha 2006 down 33.3% flat
38 Pakistan 5 ha 2024 down 98.2% volatile
39 Saint Lucia 4 ha 2024 up 300.0% volatile
40 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.

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Indicator
Ginger, raw — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
65 places, 2,961 data points, 1961–2024
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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.