Millet — 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
93
Highest
8.82 million ha
India
Lowest
0 ha
Mexico
Median
16,118 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
6,732

What the numbers show

Millet — Area harvested is currently reported for 93 countries. The highest value is 8.82 million ha in India; the lowest is 0 ha in Mexico.

The median across all reporting countries is 16,118 ha, and the mean is 398,584 ha.

Over the past decade 42 countries rose and 50 fell. The largest increase was in Greece (up 5,300.0%), and the largest decrease in Mexico (down 100.0%).

Millet — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 8.82 million ha 2024 down 3.3% falling
2 Niger 6.80 million ha 2024 down 7.5% rising
3 USSR 3.03 million ha 1991 up 13.2% falling
4 Sudan 2.88 million ha 2024 down 8.5% rising
5 Sudan (former) 2.45 million ha 2011 down 5.2% rising
6 Mali 2.12 million ha 2024 up 21.8% rising
7 Nigeria 1.90 million ha 2024 up 20.7% falling
8 Chad 1.16 million ha 2024 up 4.8% rising
9 Burkina Faso 1.10 million ha 2024 down 7.9% rising
10 Senegal 1.00 million ha 2024 up 39.7% flat
11 China 884,639 ha 2024 up 14.6% volatile
12 China, mainland 884,322 ha 2024 up 14.6% volatile
13 Ethiopia 455,000 ha 2024 down 0.0% rising
14 United Republic of Tanzania 300,000 ha 2024 down 17.9% rising
15 Namibia 268,803 ha 2024 down 36.2% rising
16 Russian Federation 255,000 ha 2024 down 36.5% volatile
17 Pakistan 229,451 ha 2024 down 50.3% falling
18 Nepal 224,935 ha 2024 down 17.1% rising
19 Guinea 200,000 ha 2024 down 3.7% volatile
20 Myanmar 186,298 ha 2024 down 20.9% rising
21 Ethiopia PDR 152,090 ha 1992 down 32.8% falling
22 Angola 150,000 ha 2024 down 23.4% volatile
23 Ghana 135,281 ha 2024 down 16.5% flat
24 Kenya 112,093 ha 2024 down 19.3% rising
25 Ukraine 92,600 ha 2024 down 6.4% volatile
26 Uganda 88,368 ha 2024 down 49.5% falling
27 Yemen 85,910 ha 2024 down 25.5% rising
28 Zimbabwe 85,415 ha 2024 down 50.4% falling
29 Eritrea 75,000 ha 2024 up 36.4% flat
29 Côte d'Ivoire 75,000 ha 2024 up 16.0% rising
31 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 72,422 ha 2024 up 2.8% falling
32 Cameroon 72,000 ha 2024 up 0.8% falling
33 Malawi 69,059 ha 2024 up 39.2% volatile
34 Democratic Republic of the Congo 61,262 ha 2024 down 11.3% rising
35 Kazakhstan 60,923 ha 2024 up 41.2% volatile
36 South Sudan 50,000 ha 2024 up 356.6% rising
37 Togo 47,000 ha 2024 up 67.4% volatile
38 Benin 41,528 ha 2024 up 49.8% rising
39 Uzbekistan 38,807 ha 2024 up 1,510.2% volatile
40 Gambia 38,425 ha 2024 down 61.9% volatile
41 Australia 35,998 ha 2024 up 0.5% rising
41 Australia and New Zealand 35,998 ha 2024 up 0.5% rising
43 Guinea-Bissau 30,000 ha 2024 up 276.9% rising
44 Mozambique 29,669 ha 2024 down 41.8% volatile
45 Zambia 18,220 ha 2024 down 47.2% volatile
46 Poland 16,943 ha 2017 up 150.8% volatile
47 Congo 16,118 ha 2024 down 3.7% rising
48 Sierra Leone 14,773 ha 2024 down 61.5% volatile
49 Mauritania 13,000 ha 2024 up 63.5% volatile
50 Bangladesh 11,005 ha 2024 down 9.7% volatile
51 France 10,699 ha 2017 down 14.4% volatile
52 Burundi 10,000 ha 2024 up 4.8% flat
53 Belarus 9,998 ha 2024 up 43.9% rising
54 Sri Lanka 7,596 ha 2024 up 2.6% volatile
55 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 7,071 ha 2024 down 9.4% volatile
56 Saudi Arabia 6,787 ha 2024 up 119.0% volatile
57 Portugal 5,800 ha 1972 up 34.9% rising
58 Argentina 5,682 ha 2024 up 152.5% volatile
59 Libya 4,155 ha 2024 down 10.3% rising
60 Botswana 3,338 ha 2024 down 51.3% volatile
61 Morocco 2,499 ha 2024 down 8.9% volatile
62 Austria 2,472 ha 2017 down 43.2% volatile
63 Bulgaria 2,460 ha 2017 up 11.3% volatile
64 Rwanda 2,424 ha 2024 down 78.0% volatile
65 Hungary 2,418 ha 2017 down 67.0% rising
66 Czechoslovakia 1,700 ha 1992 up 134.5% volatile
67 Afghanistan 1,127 ha 2024 down 25.6% volatile
67 Yugoslav SFR 1,127 ha 1991 up 12.7% volatile
69 Republic of Korea 1,000 ha 2024 down 25.4% volatile
70 Türkiye 994 ha 2024 down 62.3% volatile
71 Czechia 862 ha 2017 down 36.2% falling
72 Spain 668 ha 2017 up 170.4% volatile
73 Iraq 607 ha 2024 down 48.5% volatile
74 Slovakia 580 ha 2017 down 60.6% volatile
75 Bhutan 520 ha 2024 down 61.5% falling
76 Slovenia 347 ha 2017 up 0.9% volatile
77 Viet Nam 321 ha 2024 down 69.2% falling
78 China, Taiwan Province of 317 ha 2024 down 1.2% volatile
79 Switzerland 301 ha 2024 up 419.0% volatile
80 Japan 281 ha 2024 down 6.3% volatile
81 Republic of Moldova 161 ha 2024 up 631.8% volatile
82 Croatia 140 ha 2017 down 12.5% volatile
83 Azerbaijan 136 ha 2024 up 60.0% volatile
84 Serbia and Montenegro 130 ha 2005 up 38.3% flat
85 Serbia 107 ha 2024 up 7.0% rising
86 Syrian Arab Republic 104 ha 2024 down 74.6% volatile
87 Tajikistan 60 ha 2024 up 46.3% volatile
88 Greece 54 ha 2017 up 5,300.0% volatile
89 North Macedonia 25 ha 2024 up 19.0% volatile
90 Kyrgyzstan 9 ha 2024 down 71.9% volatile
91 Maldives 6 ha 2024 up 20.0% volatile
92 Jordan 0 ha 2024 volatile
92 Mexico 0 ha 2024 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
Millet — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
124 places, 6,732 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.