Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Canada
Canada: Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested was 3,446 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Canada, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Canada is 3,446 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.4% on the previous year and down 6.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Canada peaked at 4,622 ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 1,729 ha, in 1977.
Canada ranks 29th of 108 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Canada, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,938 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,987 ha | +2.5% |
| 1963 | 1,938 ha | -2.5% |
| 1964 | 2,019 ha | +4.2% |
| 1965 | 2,080 ha | +3.0% |
| 1966 | 1,845 ha | -11.3% |
| 1967 | 1,966 ha | +6.6% |
| 1968 | 2,067 ha | +5.1% |
| 1969 | 2,036 ha | -1.5% |
| 1970 | 2,023 ha | -0.6% |
| 1971 | 2,116 ha | +4.6% |
| 1972 | 2,153 ha | +1.7% |
| 1973 | 2,080 ha | -3.4% |
| 1974 | 2,096 ha | +0.8% |
| 1975 | 1,969 ha | -6.1% |
| 1976 | 1,881 ha | -4.5% |
| 1977 | 1,729 ha | -8.1% |
| 1978 | 1,844 ha | +6.7% |
| 1979 | 1,949 ha | +5.7% |
| 1980 | 2,135 ha | +9.5% |
| 1981 | 2,139 ha | +0.2% |
| 1982 | 2,010 ha | -6.0% |
| 1983 | 1,957 ha | -2.6% |
| 1984 | 2,003 ha | +2.4% |
| 1985 | 2,059 ha | +2.8% |
| 1986 | 2,349 ha | +14.1% |
| 1987 | 2,450 ha | +4.3% |
| 1988 | 2,589 ha | +5.7% |
| 1989 | 2,791 ha | +7.8% |
| 1990 | 2,613 ha | -6.4% |
| 1991 | 2,705 ha | +3.5% |
| 1992 | 2,774 ha | +2.6% |
| 1993 | 2,523 ha | -9.0% |
| 1994 | 2,916 ha | +15.6% |
| 1995 | 3,577 ha | +22.7% |
| 1996 | 3,270 ha | -8.6% |
| 1997 | 3,142 ha | -3.9% |
| 1998 | 3,258 ha | +3.7% |
| 1999 | 3,065 ha | -5.9% |
| 2000 | 3,298 ha | +7.6% |
| 2001 | 3,384 ha | +2.6% |
| 2002 | 3,045 ha | -10.0% |
| 2003 | 2,970 ha | -2.5% |
| 2004 | 3,242 ha | +9.2% |
| 2005 | 3,371 ha | +4.0% |
| 2006 | 3,883 ha | +15.2% |
| 2007 | 3,294 ha | -15.2% |
| 2008 | 3,130 ha | -5.0% |
| 2009 | 4,622 ha | +47.7% |
| 2010 | 4,385 ha | -5.1% |
| 2011 | 3,480 ha | -20.6% |
| 2012 | 3,536 ha | +1.6% |
| 2013 | 3,543 ha | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 3,694 ha | +4.3% |
| 2015 | 3,798 ha | +2.8% |
| 2016 | 3,997 ha | +5.2% |
| 2017 | 3,832 ha | -4.1% |
| 2018 | 3,803 ha | -0.8% |
| 2019 | 3,776 ha | -0.7% |
| 2020 | 3,247 ha | -14.0% |
| 2021 | 3,208 ha | -1.2% |
| 2022 | 3,557 ha | +10.9% |
| 2023 | 3,495 ha | -1.7% |
| 2024 | 3,446 ha | -1.4% |
Canada compared with similar countries
- Canada's 3,446 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 294 ha, 11.7× the median. (49 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Canada changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | +47.7% | 3,130 ha | 4,622 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,986 ha | 1,845 ha | 2,080 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,984 ha | 1,729 ha | 2,153 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,248 ha | 1,957 ha | 2,791 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,984 ha | 2,523 ha | 3,577 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,424 ha | 2,970 ha | 4,622 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,784 ha | 3,480 ha | 4,385 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,391 ha | 3,208 ha | 3,557 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Canada
More agriculture & rural data for Canada
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 31.61 % change on previous year (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0193 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,092 current US$ per person (2022)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.0803 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1712 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.9% (2022)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.9% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Canada?
- Lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Canada was 3,446 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest lettuce and chicory — area harvested recorded in Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 4,622 ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest lettuce and chicory — area harvested recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,729 ha in 1977.
- How does Canada rank for lettuce and chicory — area harvested?
- Canada ranks 29th out of 108 countries with data for 2024.
- Is lettuce and chicory — area harvested rising or falling in Canada?
- Over the last ten years it is down 6.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Canada data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.