Hempseed — 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
Hempseed — Area harvested is currently reported for 22 countries. The highest value is 21,000 ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Pakistan.
The median across all reporting countries is 760.5 ha, and the mean is 4,114 ha.
Over the past decade 4 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Türkiye (up 72,000.0%), and the largest decrease in Italy (down 100.0%).
Hempseed — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 21,000 ha | 1990 | down 82.5% | falling |
| 1 | China, mainland | 21,000 ha | 1990 | down 82.5% | falling |
| 3 | USSR | 17,900 ha | 1991 | down 64.2% | falling |
| 4 | Canada | 14,500 ha | 2024 | down 55.4% | falling |
| 5 | Russian Federation | 6,357 ha | 2024 | up 222.9% | volatile |
| 6 | Chile | 2,386 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | falling |
| 7 | France | 1,700 ha | 1990 | down 53.7% | volatile |
| 8 | Ukraine | 1,156 ha | 2024 | down 0.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Hungary | 1,081 ha | 1990 | down 41.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Yugoslav SFR | 981 ha | 1991 | down 73.3% | volatile |
| 11 | Romania | 800 ha | 2017 | down 12.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Türkiye | 721 ha | 2024 | up 72,000.0% | volatile |
| 13 | Bulgaria | 517 ha | 1990 | down 86.8% | volatile |
| 14 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 198 ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 15 | Portugal | 93 ha | 1970 | down 23.8% | falling |
| 16 | Poland | 59 ha | 2017 | unchanged | volatile |
| 17 | Serbia and Montenegro | 46 ha | 2005 | down 94.6% | volatile |
| 18 | Spain | 20 ha | 1990 | down 90.5% | volatile |
| 19 | Germany | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 19 | Czechoslovakia | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 19 | Italy | 0 ha | 1985 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 19 | Pakistan | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 28,486 ha
- Eastern Asia 21,000 ha
- Americas 18,854 ha
- Northern America 16,468 ha
- Eastern Europe 7,513 ha
- Europe 7,513 ha
- South America 2,386 ha
- Asia 919 ha
- European Union (27) 858 ha
- Western Asia 721 ha
- Southern Asia 198 ha
- Southern Europe 46 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.