Linseed — 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
67
Highest
1.33 million ha
Russian Federation
Lowest
0 ha
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Median
1,300 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,756

What the numbers show

Linseed — Area harvested is currently reported for 67 countries. The highest value is 1.33 million ha in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0 ha in Iran (Islamic Republic of).

The median across all reporting countries is 1,300 ha, and the mean is 61,594 ha.

Over the past decade 28 countries rose and 31 fell. The largest increase was in Spain (up 6,677.8%), and the largest decrease in Denmark (down 100.0%).

Linseed — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 1.33 million ha 2024 up 201.3% volatile
2 Kazakhstan 873,330 ha 2024 up 57.0% volatile
3 USSR 680,000 ha 1991 down 35.7% falling
4 China, mainland 220,000 ha 2024 down 29.0% volatile
4 China 220,000 ha 2024 down 29.0% volatile
6 Canada 201,400 ha 2024 down 68.0% falling
7 India 174,975 ha 2024 down 40.3% volatile
8 Ethiopia 81,000 ha 2024 down 1.6% falling
9 Ethiopia PDR 75,000 ha 1992 down 0.1% falling
10 Ukraine 53,500 ha 2024 up 42.3% volatile
11 Afghanistan 33,102 ha 2024 up 685.7% volatile
12 France 22,930 ha 2024 up 89.8% volatile
13 Argentina 22,455 ha 2024 up 52.8% volatile
14 Belarus 19,000 ha 2024 down 15.2% volatile
15 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 17,736 ha 2024 up 22.0% volatile
16 Belgium-Luxembourg 12,003 ha 1999 up 4.5% volatile
17 Czechoslovakia 11,433 ha 1992 down 58.5% falling
18 Nepal 10,400 ha 2024 down 33.2% falling
19 Australia and New Zealand 8,750 ha 2024 up 13.8% volatile
20 Australia 7,000 ha 2024 up 16.7% volatile
21 Egypt 5,000 ha 2024 up 72.8% falling
22 Bangladesh 4,565 ha 2024 down 48.7% volatile
23 Brazil 4,435 ha 2024 down 49.9% volatile
24 Uruguay 4,353 ha 2024 down 7.4% volatile
25 Germany 3,500 ha 2024 down 16.7% volatile
26 Uzbekistan 3,000 ha 2024 unchanged falling
27 Hungary 2,780 ha 2024 up 334.4% volatile
28 Chile 2,637 ha 2024 up 6.3% volatile
29 Pakistan 2,408 ha 2024 down 27.1% falling
30 Sweden 2,190 ha 2024 down 66.6% volatile
31 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,800 ha 2021 down 16.5% volatile
32 New Zealand 1,750 ha 2024 up 3.4% volatile
33 Poland 1,700 ha 2024 down 28.8% volatile
34 Austria 1,300 ha 2024 up 57.8% volatile
35 Romania 1,280 ha 2024 down 21.0% volatile
36 Bulgaria 1,120 ha 2024 up 641.7% volatile
37 Czechia 1,080 ha 2024 down 40.4% volatile
38 Tunisia 1,070 ha 2024 up 18.9% falling
39 Kenya 959 ha 2024 down 1.6% rising
40 Peru 818 ha 2024 down 26.4% volatile
41 Lithuania 780 ha 2024 up 160.0% volatile
42 Spain 610 ha 2024 up 6,677.8% volatile
43 Finland 600 ha 2024 down 25.0% falling
44 Eritrea 592 ha 2024 up 3.1% volatile
45 Slovakia 420 ha 2024 down 67.7% volatile
46 Latvia 400 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
47 Iraq 354 ha 2024 up 2.0% volatile
48 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 264 ha 2024 down 0.4% flat
49 Switzerland 240 ha 2024 up 80.5% rising
50 Ecuador 176 ha 2024 up 4.1% volatile
51 Armenia 138 ha 2024 up 55.1% volatile
52 Türkiye 132 ha 2024 volatile
53 Estonia 90 ha 2024 up 109.3% volatile
54 Yugoslav SFR 65 ha 1991 down 77.7% volatile
55 Greece 50 ha 2024 up 25.0% volatile
56 Kyrgyzstan 43 ha 2024 up 4.9% volatile
57 Ireland 30 ha 2024 down 40.0% falling
57 Belgium 30 ha 2024 down 99.7% volatile
59 Mexico 8 ha 2024 up 60.0% volatile
60 Japan 0 ha 1992 volatile
60 Morocco 0 ha 1992 volatile
60 Denmark 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
60 Cyprus 0 ha 2017 volatile
60 Malta 0 ha 2024 flat
60 Portugal 0 ha 2020 volatile
60 Italy 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
60 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0 ha 2014 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.

About this data

Indicator
Linseed — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
92 places, 4,756 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.