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...
What the numbers show
Millet — Area harvested is currently reported for 95 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 14,773 ha, and the mean is 390,434 ha.
Over the past decade 44 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 4 | United Republic of Tanzania | 300,000 ha | 2024 | down 17.9% | rising |
| 5 | Sudan (former) | 2.45 million ha | 2011 | down 5.2% | rising |
| 5 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 72,422 ha | 2024 | up 2.8% | falling |
| 6 | Mali | 2.12 million ha | 2024 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 6 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 61,262 ha | 2024 | down 11.3% | rising |
| 7 | Nigeria | 1.90 million ha | 2024 | up 20.7% | falling |
| 8 | Chad | 1.16 million ha | 2024 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 8 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 7,071 ha | 2024 | down 9.4% | volatile |
| 9 | Burkina Faso | 1.10 million ha | 2024 | down 7.9% | rising |
| 9 | Türkiye | 994 ha | 2024 | down 62.3% | volatile |
| 10 | Senegal | 1.00 million ha | 2024 | up 39.7% | flat |
| 10 | Viet Nam | 321 ha | 2024 | down 69.2% | falling |
| 11 | China | 884,639 ha | 2024 | up 14.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Republic of Moldova | 161 ha | 2024 | up 631.8% | volatile |
| 12 | China, mainland | 884,322 ha | 2024 | up 14.6% | volatile |
| 12 | Syrian Arab Republic | 104 ha | 2024 | down 74.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Ethiopia | 455,000 ha | 2024 | down 0.0% | rising |
| 14 | Namibia | 268,803 ha | 2024 | down 36.2% | rising |
| 15 | Russian Federation | 255,000 ha | 2024 | down 36.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Pakistan | 229,451 ha | 2024 | down 50.3% | falling |
| 17 | Nepal | 224,935 ha | 2024 | down 17.1% | rising |
| 18 | Guinea | 200,000 ha | 2024 | down 3.7% | volatile |
| 19 | Myanmar | 186,298 ha | 2024 | down 20.9% | rising |
| 20 | Ethiopia PDR | 152,090 ha | 1992 | down 32.8% | falling |
| 20 | Côte d'Ivoire | 75,000 ha | 2024 | up 16.0% | rising |
| 21 | Angola | 150,000 ha | 2024 | down 23.4% | volatile |
| 22 | Ghana | 135,281 ha | 2024 | down 16.5% | flat |
| 23 | Kenya | 112,093 ha | 2024 | down 19.3% | rising |
| 24 | Ukraine | 92,600 ha | 2024 | down 6.4% | volatile |
| 25 | Uganda | 88,368 ha | 2024 | down 49.5% | falling |
| 26 | Yemen | 85,910 ha | 2024 | down 25.5% | rising |
| 27 | Zimbabwe | 85,415 ha | 2024 | down 50.4% | falling |
| 28 | Eritrea | 75,000 ha | 2024 | up 36.4% | flat |
| 29 | Cameroon | 72,000 ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | falling |
| 30 | Malawi | 69,059 ha | 2024 | up 39.2% | volatile |
| 31 | Kazakhstan | 60,923 ha | 2024 | up 41.2% | volatile |
| 32 | South Sudan | 50,000 ha | 2024 | up 356.6% | rising |
| 33 | Togo | 47,000 ha | 2024 | up 67.4% | volatile |
| 34 | Benin | 41,528 ha | 2024 | up 49.8% | rising |
| 35 | Uzbekistan | 38,807 ha | 2024 | up 1,510.2% | volatile |
| 36 | Gambia | 38,425 ha | 2024 | down 61.9% | volatile |
| 37 | Australia | 35,998 ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 37 | Australia and New Zealand | 35,998 ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 39 | Guinea-Bissau | 30,000 ha | 2024 | up 276.9% | rising |
| 40 | Mozambique | 29,669 ha | 2024 | down 41.8% | volatile |
| 41 | Zambia | 18,220 ha | 2024 | down 47.2% | volatile |
| 42 | Poland | 16,943 ha | 2017 | up 150.8% | volatile |
| 43 | Congo | 16,118 ha | 2024 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 44 | Sierra Leone | 14,773 ha | 2024 | down 61.5% | volatile |
| 45 | Mauritania | 13,000 ha | 2024 | up 63.5% | volatile |
| 46 | South Africa | 12,938 ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | falling |
| 47 | Bangladesh | 11,005 ha | 2024 | down 9.7% | volatile |
| 48 | France | 10,699 ha | 2017 | down 14.4% | volatile |
| 49 | Burundi | 10,000 ha | 2024 | up 4.8% | flat |
| 49 | Central African Republic | 10,000 ha | 2024 | up 7.8% | falling |
| 51 | Belarus | 9,998 ha | 2024 | up 43.9% | rising |
| 52 | Sri Lanka | 7,596 ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 53 | Saudi Arabia | 6,787 ha | 2024 | up 119.0% | volatile |
| 54 | Portugal | 5,800 ha | 1972 | up 34.9% | rising |
| 55 | Argentina | 5,682 ha | 2024 | up 152.5% | volatile |
| 56 | Libya | 4,155 ha | 2024 | down 10.3% | rising |
| 57 | Botswana | 3,338 ha | 2024 | down 51.3% | volatile |
| 58 | Morocco | 2,499 ha | 2024 | down 8.9% | volatile |
| 59 | Austria | 2,472 ha | 2017 | down 43.2% | volatile |
| 60 | Bulgaria | 2,460 ha | 2017 | up 11.3% | volatile |
| 61 | Rwanda | 2,424 ha | 2024 | down 78.0% | volatile |
| 62 | Hungary | 2,418 ha | 2017 | down 67.0% | rising |
| 63 | Czechoslovakia | 1,700 ha | 1992 | up 134.5% | volatile |
| 64 | Afghanistan | 1,127 ha | 2024 | down 25.6% | volatile |
| 64 | Yugoslav SFR | 1,127 ha | 1991 | up 12.7% | volatile |
| 66 | Republic of Korea | 1,000 ha | 2024 | down 25.4% | volatile |
| 67 | Czechia | 862 ha | 2017 | down 36.2% | falling |
| 68 | Spain | 668 ha | 2017 | up 170.4% | volatile |
| 69 | Iraq | 607 ha | 2024 | down 48.5% | volatile |
| 70 | Slovakia | 580 ha | 2017 | down 60.6% | volatile |
| 71 | Bhutan | 520 ha | 2024 | down 61.5% | falling |
| 72 | Slovenia | 347 ha | 2017 | up 0.9% | volatile |
| 73 | China, Taiwan Province of | 317 ha | 2024 | down 1.2% | volatile |
| 74 | Switzerland | 301 ha | 2024 | up 419.0% | volatile |
| 75 | Japan | 281 ha | 2024 | down 6.3% | volatile |
| 76 | Croatia | 140 ha | 2017 | down 12.5% | volatile |
| 77 | Azerbaijan | 136 ha | 2024 | up 60.0% | volatile |
| 78 | Serbia and Montenegro | 130 ha | 2005 | up 38.3% | flat |
| 79 | Serbia | 107 ha | 2024 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 80 | Tajikistan | 60 ha | 2024 | up 46.3% | volatile |
| 81 | Greece | 54 ha | 2017 | up 5,300.0% | volatile |
| 82 | North Macedonia | 25 ha | 2024 | up 19.0% | volatile |
| 83 | Kyrgyzstan | 9 ha | 2024 | down 71.9% | volatile |
| 84 | Maldives | 6 ha | 2024 | up 20.0% | volatile |
| 85 | Jordan | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 85 | 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.
- World 30.66 million ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 17.28 million ha
- Africa 19.45 million ha
- Asia 10.64 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 17.98 million ha
- Middle Africa 1.47 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 17.31 million ha
- Western Africa 13.52 million ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 12.30 million ha
- Southern Asia 9.30 million ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 30,006 ha
- Northern Africa 2.89 million ha
- Eastern Africa 1.30 million ha
- Eastern Asia 958,342 ha
- Europe 358,192 ha
- Eastern Europe 357,759 ha
- Southern Africa 285,080 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 186,619 ha
- Americas 178,482 ha
- Northern America 172,800 ha
- United States of America 172,800 ha
- Central Asia 99,799 ha
- Western Asia 94,539 ha
- European Union (27) 37,642 ha
- Oceania 35,998 ha
- South America 5,682 ha
- Western Europe 301 ha
- Southern Europe 132 ha
- Central America 0 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.