Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Greece
Greece: Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested was 2,250 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Greece, 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 Greece is 2,250 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 13.5% on the previous year and down 42.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Greece peaked at 5,652 ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 1,200 ha, in 1962.
Greece ranks 37th 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 Greece, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,500 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,200 ha | -20.0% |
| 1963 | 1,500 ha | +25.0% |
| 1964 | 1,400 ha | -6.7% |
| 1965 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,800 ha | +28.6% |
| 1967 | 1,700 ha | -5.6% |
| 1968 | 2,360 ha | +38.8% |
| 1969 | 2,490 ha | +5.5% |
| 1970 | 2,500 ha | +0.4% |
| 1971 | 2,700 ha | +8.0% |
| 1972 | 2,600 ha | -3.7% |
| 1973 | 2,700 ha | +3.8% |
| 1974 | 2,700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 2,600 ha | -3.7% |
| 1976 | 2,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 2,700 ha | +3.8% |
| 1978 | 2,600 ha | -3.7% |
| 1979 | 2,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 2,730 ha | +5.0% |
| 1981 | 2,640 ha | -3.3% |
| 1982 | 2,800 ha | +6.1% |
| 1983 | 2,900 ha | +3.6% |
| 1984 | 3,000 ha | +3.4% |
| 1985 | 3,025 ha | +0.8% |
| 1986 | 2,937 ha | -2.9% |
| 1987 | 3,265 ha | +11.2% |
| 1988 | 3,000 ha | -8.1% |
| 1989 | 3,100 ha | +3.3% |
| 1990 | 3,396 ha | +9.5% |
| 1991 | 3,300 ha | -2.8% |
| 1992 | 3,780 ha | +14.5% |
| 1993 | 3,904 ha | +3.3% |
| 1994 | 4,003 ha | +2.5% |
| 1995 | 4,069 ha | +1.6% |
| 1996 | 3,907 ha | -4.0% |
| 1997 | 3,970 ha | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 4,119 ha | +3.8% |
| 1999 | 4,266 ha | +3.6% |
| 2000 | 4,520 ha | +6.0% |
| 2001 | 4,579 ha | +1.3% |
| 2002 | 4,681 ha | +2.2% |
| 2003 | 4,759 ha | +1.7% |
| 2004 | 4,825 ha | +1.4% |
| 2005 | 5,477 ha | +13.5% |
| 2006 | 5,496 ha | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 5,387 ha | -2.0% |
| 2008 | 5,474 ha | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 5,610 ha | +2.5% |
| 2010 | 5,503 ha | -1.9% |
| 2011 | 5,543 ha | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 5,611 ha | +1.2% |
| 2013 | 5,652 ha | +0.7% |
| 2014 | 3,937 ha | -30.3% |
| 2015 | 5,409 ha | +37.4% |
| 2016 | 4,637 ha | -14.3% |
| 2017 | 4,662 ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 4,170 ha | -10.6% |
| 2019 | 3,470 ha | -16.8% |
| 2020 | 3,760 ha | +8.4% |
| 2021 | 4,100 ha | +9.0% |
| 2022 | 2,910 ha | -29.0% |
| 2023 | 2,600 ha | -10.7% |
| 2024 | 2,250 ha | -13.5% |
Greece compared with similar countries
- Greece's 2,250 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 294 ha, 7.7× the median. (49 countries reporting)
- Greece's 2,250 ha is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 500 ha, 4.5× the median. (33 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Greece 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | +38.8% | 1,700 ha | 2,360 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,706 ha | 1,200 ha | 2,490 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,630 ha | 2,500 ha | 2,700 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,940 ha | 2,640 ha | 3,265 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,871 ha | 3,300 ha | 4,266 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,081 ha | 4,520 ha | 5,610 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,859 ha | 3,470 ha | 5,652 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,124 ha | 2,250 ha | 4,100 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Greece
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0357 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 962.12 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2078 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Greece?
- Lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Greece was 2,250 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest lettuce and chicory — area harvested recorded in Greece?
- The highest recorded value was 5,652 ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest lettuce and chicory — area harvested recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,200 ha in 1962.
- How does Greece rank for lettuce and chicory — area harvested?
- Greece ranks 37th out of 108 countries with data for 2024.
- Is lettuce and chicory — area harvested rising or falling in Greece?
- Over the last ten years it is down 42.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greece 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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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.