Land area per crop type by country

Countries reporting
62
Highest
682,180 hectares
Poland
Lowest
0 hectares
Japan
Median
6,750 hectares
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,206

What the numbers show

Land area per crop type is currently reported for 62 countries. The highest value is 682,180 hectares in Poland; the lowest is 0 hectares in Japan.

The median across all reporting countries is 6,750 hectares, and the mean is 59,018 hectares.

Over the past decade 23 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Kyrgyzstan (up 1,753.6%), and the largest decrease in Japan (down 100.0%).

Land area per crop type: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Poland 682,180 hectares 2024 down 23.0% volatile
2 Russia 580,000 hectares 2024 down 68.8% volatile
3 Germany 535,600 hectares 2024 down 15.0% falling
4 Belarus 340,000 hectares 2024 up 6.4% falling
5 China 166,529 hectares 2024 down 2.0% volatile
6 United States 162,690 hectares 2024 up 55.8% volatile
7 Argentina 118,002 hectares 2024 up 269.2% volatile
8 Canada 117,000 hectares 2024 up 32.7% falling
9 Denmark 112,000 hectares 2024 up 5.2% rising
10 Spain 97,260 hectares 2024 down 42.9% falling
11 Turkey 90,329 hectares 2024 down 20.2% volatile
12 Iraq 74,397 hectares 2024 down 5.8% rising
13 Ukraine 69,700 hectares 2024 down 62.3% volatile
14 North Korea 52,855 hectares 2024 down 5.0% falling
15 Egypt 47,869 hectares 2024 up 6.4% volatile
16 Australia 41,335 hectares 2024 down 8.2% rising
17 United Kingdom 36,840 hectares 2024 up 272.9% volatile
18 Latvia 34,600 hectares 2024 up 8.1% volatile
19 Austria 32,150 hectares 2024 down 33.4% volatile
20 France 29,320 hectares 2024 up 12.0% volatile
21 Sweden 27,480 hectares 2024 up 2.1% volatile
22 Lithuania 25,430 hectares 2024 down 32.9% volatile
23 Czechia 24,300 hectares 2024 down 3.3% falling
24 Hungary 22,630 hectares 2024 down 32.6% volatile
25 Kazakhstan 20,444 hectares 2024 down 53.2% volatile
26 Estonia 18,240 hectares 2024 up 18.4% volatile
27 Finland 15,910 hectares 2024 down 32.9% volatile
28 Portugal 12,740 hectares 2024 down 35.6% volatile
29 Romania 11,120 hectares 2024 up 9.5% volatile
30 Slovakia 7,590 hectares 2024 down 48.0% falling
31 Greece 7,060 hectares 2024 down 54.1% rising
32 Bulgaria 6,440 hectares 2024 down 55.4% volatile
33 Norway 5,730 hectares 2024 down 6.0% volatile
34 Serbia 4,610 hectares 2024 down 19.1% falling
35 Morocco 3,705 hectares 2024 up 1.5% falling
36 Italy 3,690 hectares 2024 down 3.8% volatile
37 Brazil 3,360 hectares 2024 up 9.0% volatile
38 North Macedonia 3,189 hectares 2024 down 23.5% falling
39 Switzerland 1,970 hectares 2024 up 3.7% volatile
40 South Africa 1,782 hectares 2024 down 5.8% volatile
41 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,606 hectares 2024 down 55.0% falling
42 Netherlands 1,490 hectares 2024 down 13.4% volatile
44 Albania 1,170 hectares 2024 down 14.9% volatile
45 Slovenia 1,080 hectares 2024 down 34.1% falling
46 Chile 947 hectares 2024 up 15.8% volatile
47 Belgium 840 hectares 2024 up 110.0% rising
48 Croatia 690 hectares 2024 down 49.7% falling
49 Moldova 562 hectares 2024 up 48.7% volatile
50 Kyrgyzstan 519 hectares 2024 up 1,753.6% volatile
51 Iran 491 hectares 2024 down 13.9% volatile
52 Uzbekistan 489 hectares 2024 down 45.7% volatile
53 Bolivia 355 hectares 2024 down 7.6% volatile
54 Georgia 163 hectares 2024 up 8.7% volatile
55 Armenia 142 hectares 2024 down 51.0% volatile
56 Ecuador 127 hectares 2024 down 3.8% volatile
57 Azerbaijan 103 hectares 2024 up 45.1% volatile
58 Tajikistan 97 hectares 2024 up 3.2% volatile
59 Montenegro 88 hectares 2024 down 51.9% rising
60 Mexico 44 hectares 2024 up 100.0% volatile
61 Peru 43 hectares 2024 down 55.2% volatile
62 South Korea 1 hectares 2024 unchanged volatile
63 Japan 0 hectares 1992 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
Land area per crop type
Unit
hectares
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
66 places, 3,206 data points, 1961–2024
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