Lettuce and chicory — 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
Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested is currently reported for 115 countries. The highest value is 635,344 ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in French Guiana.
The median across all reporting countries is 810 ha, and the mean is 15,915 ha.
Over the past decade 64 countries rose and 47 fell. The largest increase was in Belgium (up 856.7%), and the largest decrease in Malta (down 100.0%).
Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 635,344 ha | 2024 | up 7.3% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 635,105 ha | 2024 | up 7.3% | volatile |
| 3 | India | 186,498 ha | 2024 | up 8.2% | rising |
| 3 | Türkiye | 21,737 ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | volatile |
| 4 | Spain | 32,940 ha | 2024 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 14,527 ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Italy | 30,120 ha | 2024 | down 8.7% | falling |
| 6 | Niger | 28,817 ha | 2024 | up 606.6% | volatile |
| 6 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 3,649 ha | 2024 | up 12.3% | volatile |
| 7 | Mexico | 21,747 ha | 2024 | up 14.6% | volatile |
| 7 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 2,817 ha | 2024 | down 4.2% | rising |
| 8 | Japan | 20,033 ha | 2024 | down 5.9% | rising |
| 8 | Syrian Arab Republic | 2,065 ha | 2024 | down 36.4% | rising |
| 9 | France | 16,980 ha | 2024 | up 89.6% | falling |
| 10 | Belgium | 11,480 ha | 2024 | up 856.7% | volatile |
| 10 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 353 ha | 2024 | down 12.4% | falling |
| 11 | Australia and New Zealand | 10,498 ha | 2024 | up 10.1% | rising |
| 11 | Polynesia | 22 ha | 2024 | down 15.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Australia | 9,214 ha | 2024 | up 16.3% | rising |
| 13 | Malaysia | 8,617 ha | 2024 | up 175.6% | volatile |
| 14 | Guinea | 8,003 ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | flat |
| 15 | Bangladesh | 7,563 ha | 2018 | up 2.6% | falling |
| 16 | Chile | 7,485 ha | 2024 | up 12.2% | volatile |
| 17 | Germany | 7,060 ha | 2024 | down 50.7% | rising |
| 18 | Mali | 6,387 ha | 2024 | up 35.5% | falling |
| 19 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 5,880 ha | 2024 | up 68.0% | volatile |
| 20 | Peru | 5,526 ha | 2024 | down 5.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Colombia | 5,076 ha | 2024 | up 39.2% | volatile |
| 22 | Egypt | 4,911 ha | 2024 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 23 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4,610 ha | 2024 | down 27.8% | falling |
| 24 | Republic of Korea | 4,181 ha | 2024 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 24 | Caribbean | 3,838 ha | 2024 | up 72.5% | rising |
| 25 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 3,966 ha | 1999 | up 80.3% | falling |
| 26 | Guatemala | 3,809 ha | 2024 | up 39.7% | volatile |
| 27 | Thailand | 3,746 ha | 2024 | up 2.3% | volatile |
| 28 | Tunisia | 3,683 ha | 2024 | up 4.9% | volatile |
| 28 | Cabo Verde | 40 ha | 2024 | down 79.3% | volatile |
| 29 | Canada | 3,446 ha | 2024 | down 6.7% | rising |
| 30 | Switzerland | 2,936 ha | 2024 | down 18.9% | volatile |
| 31 | Poland | 2,800 ha | 2024 | up 85.6% | volatile |
| 32 | Israel | 2,746 ha | 2024 | up 15.2% | volatile |
| 33 | Iraq | 2,688 ha | 2024 | down 61.2% | rising |
| 34 | Portugal | 2,320 ha | 2024 | down 4.1% | volatile |
| 35 | Sweden | 2,300 ha | 2024 | up 24.3% | volatile |
| 36 | Ecuador | 2,291 ha | 2024 | down 0.3% | volatile |
| 37 | Greece | 2,250 ha | 2024 | down 42.8% | rising |
| 38 | South Africa | 2,247 ha | 2024 | down 6.0% | rising |
| 39 | Dominican Republic | 2,081 ha | 2024 | up 158.2% | volatile |
| 40 | Albania | 1,693 ha | 2024 | up 66.5% | rising |
| 41 | Czechoslovakia | 1,485 ha | 1992 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 42 | Austria | 1,460 ha | 2024 | down 9.8% | rising |
| 43 | Jordan | 1,454 ha | 2024 | up 9.9% | volatile |
| 44 | New Zealand | 1,284 ha | 2024 | down 20.2% | rising |
| 45 | Jamaica | 1,258 ha | 2024 | up 54.9% | volatile |
| 46 | Lebanon | 1,167 ha | 2024 | down 24.7% | rising |
| 47 | Philippines | 1,048 ha | 2024 | up 104.7% | volatile |
| 48 | Denmark | 1,020 ha | 2024 | up 52.0% | volatile |
| 49 | Ethiopia | 978 ha | 2024 | up 179.4% | volatile |
| 50 | Slovenia | 870 ha | 2024 | down 28.3% | rising |
| 51 | Nepal | 821 ha | 2024 | up 17.3% | volatile |
| 52 | Saudi Arabia | 810 ha | 2024 | down 11.0% | rising |
| 53 | Norway | 800 ha | 2024 | up 10.3% | volatile |
| 54 | Czechia | 650 ha | 2024 | up 269.3% | volatile |
| 55 | Finland | 500 ha | 2024 | down 23.4% | rising |
| 56 | Martinique | 364 ha | 2006 | up 58.3% | rising |
| 57 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 349 ha | 2024 | down 57.6% | falling |
| 58 | Pakistan | 340 ha | 2024 | down 7.6% | volatile |
| 59 | Uzbekistan | 338 ha | 2024 | up 12.7% | rising |
| 60 | Mauritius | 307 ha | 2024 | up 127.4% | volatile |
| 61 | Croatia | 300 ha | 2024 | up 215.8% | volatile |
| 62 | Kuwait | 294 ha | 2024 | up 26.2% | volatile |
| 63 | Réunion | 280 ha | 2006 | down 17.2% | volatile |
| 64 | Morocco | 273 ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | volatile |
| 65 | Haiti | 271 ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 66 | Hungary | 240 ha | 2024 | down 27.3% | volatile |
| 67 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 238 ha | 2024 | up 1.7% | volatile |
| 68 | Ireland | 220 ha | 2024 | down 26.9% | falling |
| 69 | Cyprus | 210 ha | 2024 | up 153.0% | volatile |
| 70 | Kyrgyzstan | 203 ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 71 | Costa Rica | 201 ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | volatile |
| 72 | Yemen | 192 ha | 1993 | up 104.3% | volatile |
| 73 | Palestine | 189 ha | 2022 | up 142.3% | rising |
| 74 | Madagascar | 174 ha | 2024 | down 9.8% | rising |
| 75 | Romania | 170 ha | 2024 | down 39.5% | volatile |
| 76 | Lithuania | 140 ha | 2024 | down 44.0% | falling |
| 77 | Trinidad and Tobago | 137 ha | 2024 | down 32.8% | volatile |
| 78 | Honduras | 132 ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 79 | Guadeloupe | 130 ha | 2006 | down 18.8% | volatile |
| 80 | Panama | 115 ha | 2024 | down 51.5% | volatile |
| 81 | Bulgaria | 110 ha | 2024 | down 62.1% | volatile |
| 82 | Ukraine | 100 ha | 2024 | down 86.1% | volatile |
| 83 | Kenya | 43 ha | 2024 | down 73.1% | volatile |
| 84 | Singapore | 42 ha | 2024 | up 121.1% | volatile |
| 85 | Luxembourg | 40 ha | 2024 | up 207.7% | volatile |
| 85 | Latvia | 40 ha | 2017 | up 60.0% | volatile |
| 87 | United Arab Emirates | 32 ha | 2024 | up 10.3% | volatile |
| 87 | Barbados | 32 ha | 2024 | up 77.8% | volatile |
| 87 | Zimbabwe | 32 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 90 | Qatar | 27 ha | 2024 | down 38.6% | volatile |
| 91 | Bahrain | 26 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 92 | Congo | 22 ha | 2024 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 92 | French Polynesia | 22 ha | 2024 | down 15.4% | volatile |
| 94 | Puerto Rico | 20 ha | 2024 | up 81.8% | volatile |
| 95 | Dominica | 12 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 96 | Bahamas | 10 ha | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 96 | North Macedonia | 10 ha | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 96 | Slovakia | 10 ha | 2024 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 99 | Saint Lucia | 9 ha | 2024 | down 40.0% | flat |
| 100 | Antigua and Barbuda | 8 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 101 | Brunei Darussalam | 5 ha | 2024 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 102 | Sao Tome and Principe | 3 ha | 2024 | down 25.0% | falling |
| 103 | Grenada | 2 ha | 2024 | down 97.5% | volatile |
| 104 | Djibouti | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 105 | Malta | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 105 | French Guiana | 0 ha | 2006 | 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.
- World 1.29 million ha
- Asia 909,123 ha
- Eastern Asia 659,558 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 45,808 ha
- Southern Asia 202,186 ha
- Americas 182,106 ha
- Europe 130,358 ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 4,253 ha
- Northern America 125,420 ha
- United States of America 121,974 ha
- European Union (27) 120,070 ha
- Southern Europe 70,852 ha
- Middle Africa 378 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 69,664 ha
- Africa 56,275 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 48,510 ha
- Western Europe 45,836 ha
- Western Africa 43,248 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 40,402 ha
- Western Asia 33,381 ha
- South America 26,844 ha
- Central America 26,004 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 13,457 ha
- Oceania 10,522 ha
- Northern Europe 9,590 ha
- Northern Africa 8,868 ha
- Eastern Europe 4,080 ha
- Southern Africa 2,247 ha
- Eastern Africa 1,535 ha
- Central Asia 541 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.