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...

Countries reporting
63
Highest
1.74 million ha
India
Lowest
0 ha
Romania
Median
3,500 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,591

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

About this data

Indicator
Lentils, dry — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
89 places, 4,591 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.