Lemons and limes — 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
134
Highest
319,043 ha
India
Lowest
0 ha
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
Median
833.5 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
7,524

What the numbers show

Lemons and limes — Area harvested is currently reported for 134 countries. The highest value is 319,043 ha in India; the lowest is 0 ha in Netherlands (Kingdom of the).

The median across all reporting countries is 833.5 ha, and the mean is 11,374 ha.

Over the past decade 75 countries rose and 32 fell. The largest increase was in Kenya (up 657.6%), and the largest decrease in Bahrain (down 100.0%).

Lemons and limes — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 319,043 ha 2024 up 11.4% volatile
2 Mexico 215,659 ha 2024 up 37.9% volatile
3 China 103,743 ha 2024 up 5.8% volatile
4 China, mainland 101,473 ha 2024 up 5.7% volatile
5 Bangladesh 87,230 ha 2024 up 438.5% volatile
6 Argentina 68,927 ha 2024 up 131.6% rising
7 Brazil 68,239 ha 2024 up 57.2% rising
8 Türkiye 54,279 ha 2024 up 96.2% volatile
10 Spain 50,950 ha 2024 up 35.0% rising
11 Dominican Republic 49,207 ha 2024 up 566.9% volatile
12 Colombia 44,689 ha 2024 up 345.6% volatile
13 Sudan 32,377 ha 2024 up 54.4% rising
14 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 29,751 ha 2024 up 14.2% volatile
15 Peru 28,604 ha 2024 up 39.8% volatile
16 Italy 24,690 ha 2024 down 5.0% falling
17 Egypt 18,849 ha 2024 up 36.7% volatile
18 Thailand 16,153 ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
19 Sudan (former) 16,128 ha 2011 up 216.2% volatile
20 Kenya 12,235 ha 2024 up 657.6% volatile
21 Pakistan 12,006 ha 2024 up 55.0% volatile
22 Chile 10,074 ha 2024 up 68.1% rising
23 Sri Lanka 8,885 ha 2024 down 26.8% rising
24 Nepal 8,622 ha 2024 up 90.2% rising
25 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 7,691 ha 2024 up 31.2% rising
26 Syrian Arab Republic 7,520 ha 2024 up 3.5% volatile
27 Ghana 7,191 ha 2024 down 0.1% rising
28 Ecuador 7,090 ha 2024 up 67.3% volatile
29 Saudi Arabia 5,591 ha 2024 up 123.6% rising
30 Mali 5,369 ha 2024 up 214.9% volatile
31 Guatemala 4,807 ha 2024 down 21.8% rising
31 Réunion 39 ha 2006 down 66.7% volatile
32 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 4,341 ha 2024 up 1.8% rising
33 Malawi 4,251 ha 2024 up 84.8% rising
34 Lebanon 4,200 ha 2024 up 13.8% rising
35 Tunisia 4,132 ha 2024 up 1.6% volatile
36 Algeria 3,996 ha 2024 up 3.6% volatile
37 Australia and New Zealand 3,930 ha 2024 up 136.2% rising
38 Australia 3,597 ha 2024 up 183.2% rising
39 Somalia 3,429 ha 2024 up 114.8% volatile
40 Greece 3,190 ha 2024 down 34.2% falling
41 Iraq 3,084 ha 2024 down 36.2% rising
42 France 2,660 ha 2024 up 193.0% volatile
43 Yemen 2,654 ha 2024 up 9.8% volatile
44 Jordan 2,548 ha 2024 up 61.1% rising
45 Morocco 2,465 ha 2024 down 10.6% rising
46 Israel 2,393 ha 2024 up 16.3% rising
47 Libya 2,332 ha 2024 up 18.4% volatile
48 China, Taiwan Province of 2,270 ha 2024 up 12.2% volatile
49 Uruguay 2,242 ha 2024 up 65.8% volatile
50 Oman 2,032 ha 2024 up 68.2% falling
51 Portugal 1,890 ha 2024 up 103.0% falling
52 Malaysia 1,880 ha 2024 up 90.1% volatile
53 United Republic of Tanzania 1,794 ha 2024 down 15.9% volatile
54 Zimbabwe 1,738 ha 2024 up 72.4% rising
55 Panama 1,720 ha 2024 up 67.0% rising
56 Costa Rica 1,704 ha 2024 up 4.3% volatile
57 Jamaica 1,547 ha 2024 down 6.4% falling
58 Rwanda 1,453 ha 2024 down 2.9% rising
59 Polynesia 1,414 ha 2024 up 4.4% rising
60 Madagascar 1,337 ha 2024 up 1.7% rising
61 El Salvador 1,294 ha 2024 up 28.2% falling
62 Ethiopia 1,287 ha 2024 up 3.9% rising
63 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1,132 ha 2024 up 104.0% volatile
64 Tonga 1,097 ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
65 Ethiopia PDR 1,080 ha 1992 up 13.7% rising
66 Honduras 1,076 ha 2024 up 54.6% rising
67 Georgia 963 ha 2024 up 32.8% rising
68 Mozambique 903 ha 2024 down 6.8% rising
69 Philippines 764 ha 2024 up 51.6% volatile
70 Guinea-Bissau 729 ha 2024 up 4.4% volatile
71 Uzbekistan 705 ha 2024 up 134.2% volatile
72 French Guiana 666 ha 2006 up 54.2% volatile
73 Japan 553 ha 2024 up 13.1% rising
74 Djibouti 550 ha 2024 up 22.2% rising
75 Palestine 540 ha 2022 down 7.5% falling
76 Azerbaijan 513 ha 2024 up 37.5% falling
77 Trinidad and Tobago 499 ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
78 Paraguay 491 ha 2024 up 9.1% volatile
79 Congo 472 ha 2024 down 1.7% rising
80 Puerto Rico 466 ha 2024 up 521.3% volatile
81 Democratic Republic of the Congo 455 ha 2024 up 3.9% rising
82 Cyprus 400 ha 2024 down 25.4% volatile
83 Guadeloupe 370 ha 2006 up 42.3% rising
84 Melanesia 359 ha 2024 up 498.3% volatile
85 Tajikistan 340 ha 2024 down 26.1% rising
86 New Zealand 333 ha 2024 down 15.5% rising
87 Cambodia 300 ha 2024 down 1.6% rising
88 Dominica 293 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
89 French Polynesia 289 ha 2024 up 39.6% rising
90 New Caledonia 279 ha 2024 up 365.0% volatile
91 Cuba 258 ha 2024 down 71.3% volatile
92 Haiti 192 ha 2024 down 98.3% volatile
93 Bahamas 188 ha 2024 up 3.9% rising
94 United Arab Emirates 165 ha 2024 down 5.7% volatile
95 Guyana 146 ha 2024 down 44.3% falling
96 Martinique 126 ha 2006 up 93.8% volatile
97 Albania 100 ha 2024 down 71.4% volatile
98 Antigua and Barbuda 86 ha 2024 down 3.4% rising
99 Croatia 80 ha 2024 up 300.0% volatile
100 Burkina Faso 46 ha 2024 up 7.0% volatile
101 Bhutan 45 ha 2024 up 12.5% rising
102 Niue 28 ha 2024 unchanged falling
103 Malta 25 ha 2017 down 37.5% falling
104 Saint Lucia 21 ha 2024 down 43.2% falling
105 Brunei Darussalam 16 ha 2024 unchanged rising
106 Suriname 11 ha 2024 down 38.9% volatile
107 Kuwait 9 ha 2024 down 30.8% volatile
108 Grenada 8 ha 2024 down 57.9% falling
109 Maldives 5 ha 2024 unchanged rising
110 Seychelles 3 ha 2024 unchanged falling
110 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3 ha 2024 down 97.8% falling
112 Kyrgyzstan 2 ha 2024 unchanged falling
113 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 ha 2024 unchanged falling
114 Austria 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Belgium 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Bulgaria 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Bahrain 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% rising
114 Czechia 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Germany 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Denmark 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Estonia 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Finland 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Hungary 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Ireland 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Lithuania 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Luxembourg 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Latvia 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Poland 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Romania 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Slovakia 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Slovenia 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Sweden 0 ha 2024 flat
114 Cook Islands 0 ha 2024 volatile
114 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 ha 2024 flat

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
Lemons and limes — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
167 places, 7,524 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.