Lentils, dry — 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
Lentils, dry — Area harvested is currently reported for 63 countries. The highest value is 1.74 million ha in India; the lowest is 0 ha in Romania.
The median across all reporting countries is 3,500 ha, and the mean is 116,613 ha.
Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 30 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 4,608.4%), and the largest decrease in Germany (down 100.0%).
Lentils, dry — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 1.74 million ha | 2024 | up 30.0% | rising |
| 2 | Canada | 1.69 million ha | 2024 | up 39.1% | volatile |
| 3 | Australia and New Zealand | 1.04 million ha | 2024 | up 447.5% | volatile |
| 4 | Australia | 1.04 million ha | 2024 | up 448.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | 350,728 ha | 2024 | up 4,608.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Türkiye | 242,195 ha | 2024 | down 0.5% | volatile |
| 7 | Russian Federation | 236,771 ha | 2024 | up 826.9% | volatile |
| 8 | Nepal | 145,984 ha | 2024 | down 29.1% | rising |
| 9 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 129,738 ha | 2024 | down 8.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Bangladesh | 124,892 ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 11 | Syrian Arab Republic | 89,150 ha | 2024 | down 19.8% | rising |
| 12 | Ethiopia | 77,009 ha | 2024 | down 22.1% | rising |
| 13 | China, mainland | 65,114 ha | 2024 | up 8.5% | volatile |
| 13 | China | 65,114 ha | 2024 | up 8.5% | volatile |
| 15 | Ethiopia PDR | 48,100 ha | 1992 | down 31.7% | falling |
| 16 | USSR | 44,500 ha | 1991 | up 394.4% | falling |
| 17 | Spain | 36,504 ha | 2017 | up 115.8% | falling |
| 18 | France | 31,045 ha | 2017 | up 282.0% | volatile |
| 19 | Morocco | 20,605 ha | 2024 | down 55.1% | rising |
| 20 | Ukraine | 17,700 ha | 2024 | up 3,440.0% | volatile |
| 21 | Argentina | 15,970 ha | 2024 | down 22.1% | volatile |
| 22 | Greece | 12,307 ha | 2017 | up 341.4% | volatile |
| 23 | Algeria | 11,810 ha | 2024 | up 82.9% | volatile |
| 24 | Yemen | 10,753 ha | 2024 | down 3.5% | volatile |
| 25 | Mexico | 6,980 ha | 2024 | down 19.8% | falling |
| 26 | Pakistan | 6,179 ha | 2024 | down 66.1% | falling |
| 27 | Italy | 4,981 ha | 2017 | up 175.8% | volatile |
| 28 | Bulgaria | 4,471 ha | 2017 | up 280.5% | volatile |
| 29 | Colombia | 4,319 ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Peru | 3,969 ha | 2024 | up 16.4% | rising |
| 31 | Ecuador | 3,749 ha | 2024 | up 7.7% | volatile |
| 32 | Tunisia | 3,500 ha | 2024 | up 100.6% | rising |
| 33 | Czechoslovakia | 3,208 ha | 1992 | up 14.7% | volatile |
| 34 | Malawi | 2,343 ha | 2024 | up 40.5% | rising |
| 35 | Kenya | 2,227 ha | 2024 | down 45.4% | volatile |
| 36 | Martinique | 2,073 ha | 2006 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 36 | Caribbean | 2,073 ha | 2006 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 38 | Lebanon | 2,000 ha | 2024 | up 145.7% | volatile |
| 39 | Madagascar | 1,277 ha | 2024 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 40 | Uzbekistan | 1,088 ha | 2024 | down 1.1% | rising |
| 41 | Myanmar | 960 ha | 2024 | down 40.7% | falling |
| 42 | Palestine | 678 ha | 2022 | down 9.2% | volatile |
| 43 | New Zealand | 675 ha | 2024 | up 36.1% | volatile |
| 44 | Chile | 629 ha | 2024 | down 40.7% | volatile |
| 45 | Tajikistan | 565 ha | 2024 | down 11.2% | volatile |
| 46 | Eritrea | 514 ha | 2024 | down 6.9% | falling |
| 47 | Slovakia | 509 ha | 2017 | up 18.1% | volatile |
| 48 | Yugoslav SFR | 502 ha | 1991 | up 25.5% | falling |
| 49 | Jordan | 426 ha | 2024 | up 129.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Azerbaijan | 406 ha | 2024 | down 50.2% | rising |
| 51 | Armenia | 188 ha | 2024 | up 394.7% | volatile |
| 52 | Egypt | 160 ha | 2024 | down 61.0% | volatile |
| 53 | Israel | 114 ha | 2024 | up 2.7% | volatile |
| 54 | North Macedonia | 59 ha | 2024 | down 26.2% | volatile |
| 55 | Hungary | 24 ha | 2017 | down 92.0% | volatile |
| 56 | Croatia | 22 ha | 2017 | down 65.6% | falling |
| 57 | Cyprus | 19 ha | 2017 | down 81.0% | volatile |
| 58 | Czechia | 11 ha | 2006 | down 21.4% | volatile |
| 59 | Iraq | 3 ha | 2024 | down 97.7% | volatile |
| 59 | Bhutan | 3 ha | 2024 | down 97.2% | volatile |
| 61 | Libya | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 61 | Germany | 0 ha | 1992 | down 100.0% | falling |
| 61 | Romania | 0 ha | 1987 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 6.42 million ha
- Asia 2.91 million ha
- Southern Asia 2.15 million ha
- Americas 2.09 million ha
- Northern America 2.06 million ha
- Oceania 1.04 million ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 578,373 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 403,801 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 366,732 ha
- United States of America 365,440 ha
- Central Asia 352,381 ha
- Western Asia 345,859 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.