Green garlic — Area harvested in Greece
Greece: Green garlic — Area harvested was 390 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Green garlic — Area harvested in Greece, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Greece recorded 390 ha for green garlic — area harvested in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of down 33.9% on the previous year and down 66.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green garlic — area harvested in Greece peaked at 4,480 ha in 1961 and was at its lowest, 390 ha, in 2024.
That places Greece 68th out of 102 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Green garlic — Area harvested in Greece, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,480 ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,920 ha | -12.5% |
| 1963 | 4,070 ha | +3.8% |
| 1964 | 4,080 ha | +0.2% |
| 1965 | 3,640 ha | -10.8% |
| 1966 | 3,380 ha | -7.1% |
| 1967 | 3,300 ha | -2.4% |
| 1968 | 3,230 ha | -2.1% |
| 1969 | 3,410 ha | +5.6% |
| 1970 | 3,500 ha | +2.6% |
| 1971 | 3,000 ha | -14.3% |
| 1972 | 2,700 ha | -10.0% |
| 1973 | 2,800 ha | +3.7% |
| 1974 | 3,400 ha | +21.4% |
| 1975 | 3,100 ha | -8.8% |
| 1976 | 3,000 ha | -3.2% |
| 1977 | 2,800 ha | -6.7% |
| 1978 | 3,100 ha | +10.7% |
| 1979 | 3,300 ha | +6.5% |
| 1980 | 3,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 3,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 3,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 3,100 ha | -6.1% |
| 1984 | 3,000 ha | -3.2% |
| 1985 | 2,700 ha | -10.0% |
| 1986 | 2,200 ha | -18.5% |
| 1987 | 2,500 ha | +13.6% |
| 1988 | 2,400 ha | -4.0% |
| 1989 | 2,300 ha | -4.2% |
| 1990 | 1,779 ha | -22.7% |
| 1991 | 2,100 ha | +18.0% |
| 1992 | 1,800 ha | -14.3% |
| 1993 | 2,247 ha | +24.8% |
| 1994 | 2,202 ha | -2.0% |
| 1995 | 2,239 ha | +1.7% |
| 1996 | 2,208 ha | -1.4% |
| 1997 | 2,175 ha | -1.5% |
| 1998 | 2,049 ha | -5.8% |
| 1999 | 2,038 ha | -0.5% |
| 2000 | 1,912 ha | -6.2% |
| 2001 | 1,761 ha | -7.9% |
| 2002 | 1,757 ha | -0.2% |
| 2003 | 1,819 ha | +3.5% |
| 2004 | 1,785 ha | -1.9% |
| 2005 | 1,711 ha | -4.1% |
| 2006 | 1,710 ha | -0.1% |
| 2007 | 1,541 ha | -9.9% |
| 2008 | 1,663 ha | +7.9% |
| 2009 | 1,630 ha | -2.0% |
| 2010 | 1,606 ha | -1.5% |
| 2011 | 1,680 ha | +4.6% |
| 2012 | 1,723 ha | +2.6% |
| 2013 | 1,723 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 1,153 ha | -33.1% |
| 2015 | 1,092 ha | -5.3% |
| 2016 | 908 ha | -16.8% |
| 2017 | 963 ha | +6.1% |
| 2018 | 780 ha | -19.0% |
| 2019 | 580 ha | -25.6% |
| 2020 | 960 ha | +65.5% |
| 2021 | 780 ha | -18.8% |
| 2022 | 650 ha | -16.7% |
| 2023 | 590 ha | -9.2% |
| 2024 | 390 ha | -33.9% |
Greece compared with similar countries
- Greece's 390 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 331 ha, 1.2× the median. (31 countries reporting)
- Greece's 390 ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 630 ha, 62% of the median. (37 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Green garlic — Area harvested in Greece changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | +65.5% | 580 ha | 960 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,723 ha | 3,230 ha | 4,480 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,070 ha | 2,700 ha | 3,500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,810 ha | 2,200 ha | 3,300 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,084 ha | 1,779 ha | 2,247 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,729 ha | 1,541 ha | 1,912 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,221 ha | 580 ha | 1,723 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 674 ha | 390 ha | 960 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Greece
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0357 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 962.12 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2078 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is green garlic — area harvested in Greece?
- Green garlic — area harvested in Greece was 390 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green garlic — area harvested recorded in Greece?
- The highest recorded value was 4,480 ha in 1961.
- What is the lowest green garlic — area harvested recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 390 ha in 2024.
- How does Greece rank for green garlic — area harvested?
- Greece ranks 68th out of 102 countries with data for 2024.
- Is green garlic — area harvested rising or falling in Greece?
- Over the last ten years it is down 66.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Greece data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Green garlic — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.