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...

Countries reporting
22
Highest
21,000 ha
China
Lowest
0 ha
Pakistan
Median
760.5 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
1,423

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

About this data

Indicator
Hempseed — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
36 places, 1,423 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.