Millet — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Millet — Area harvested was 17.31 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Millet — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) recorded 17.31 million ha for millet — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 2.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, millet — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 18.75 million ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 6.94 million ha, in 1961.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 4th of 26 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Millet — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6.94 million ha | — |
| 1962 | 7.35 million ha | +5.9% |
| 1963 | 7.91 million ha | +7.6% |
| 1964 | 7.52 million ha | -4.9% |
| 1965 | 7.66 million ha | +1.8% |
| 1966 | 7.55 million ha | -1.4% |
| 1967 | 7.75 million ha | +2.7% |
| 1968 | 7.56 million ha | -2.4% |
| 1969 | 8.23 million ha | +8.8% |
| 1970 | 8.10 million ha | -1.5% |
| 1971 | 8.40 million ha | +3.6% |
| 1972 | 8.07 million ha | -3.9% |
| 1973 | 8.16 million ha | +1.1% |
| 1974 | 8.33 million ha | +2.0% |
| 1975 | 7.71 million ha | -7.3% |
| 1976 | 8.85 million ha | +14.7% |
| 1977 | 9.39 million ha | +6.2% |
| 1978 | 9.17 million ha | -2.3% |
| 1979 | 8.71 million ha | -5.0% |
| 1980 | 9.12 million ha | +4.6% |
| 1981 | 9.25 million ha | +1.5% |
| 1982 | 8.73 million ha | -5.6% |
| 1983 | 9.00 million ha | +3.1% |
| 1984 | 9.05 million ha | +0.5% |
| 1985 | 10.25 million ha | +13.3% |
| 1986 | 10.19 million ha | -0.6% |
| 1987 | 9.43 million ha | -7.5% |
| 1988 | 11.95 million ha | +26.7% |
| 1989 | 11.08 million ha | -7.3% |
| 1990 | 10.83 million ha | -2.3% |
| 1991 | 11.42 million ha | +5.5% |
| 1992 | 12.32 million ha | +7.8% |
| 1993 | 12.34 million ha | +0.2% |
| 1994 | 15.06 million ha | +22.1% |
| 1995 | 13.98 million ha | -7.2% |
| 1996 | 12.72 million ha | -9.0% |
| 1997 | 13.30 million ha | +4.5% |
| 1998 | 14.22 million ha | +6.9% |
| 1999 | 14.13 million ha | -0.7% |
| 2000 | 13.42 million ha | -5.0% |
| 2001 | 14.25 million ha | +6.2% |
| 2002 | 14.93 million ha | +4.8% |
| 2003 | 15.63 million ha | +4.7% |
| 2004 | 13.22 million ha | -15.4% |
| 2005 | 15.33 million ha | +16.0% |
| 2006 | 15.84 million ha | +3.3% |
| 2007 | 15.79 million ha | -0.3% |
| 2008 | 16.53 million ha | +4.7% |
| 2009 | 16.15 million ha | -2.3% |
| 2010 | 16.93 million ha | +4.8% |
| 2011 | 17.19 million ha | +1.5% |
| 2012 | 16.25 million ha | -5.5% |
| 2013 | 17.59 million ha | +8.3% |
| 2014 | 17.80 million ha | +1.2% |
| 2015 | 15.75 million ha | -11.5% |
| 2016 | 18.07 million ha | +14.7% |
| 2017 | 17.43 million ha | -3.5% |
| 2018 | 18.75 million ha | +7.6% |
| 2019 | 17.42 million ha | -7.1% |
| 2020 | 17.88 million ha | +2.6% |
| 2021 | 16.39 million ha | -8.3% |
| 2022 | 17.93 million ha | +9.4% |
| 2023 | 17.33 million ha | -3.3% |
| 2024 | 17.31 million ha | -0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7.61 million ha | 6.94 million ha | 8.23 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8.49 million ha | 7.71 million ha | 9.39 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9.80 million ha | 8.73 million ha | 11.95 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13.03 million ha | 10.83 million ha | 15.06 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15.11 million ha | 13.22 million ha | 16.53 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17.32 million ha | 15.75 million ha | 18.75 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17.37 million ha | 16.39 million ha | 17.93 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 1 India 8.82 million ha compare
- 2 Niger 6.80 million ha compare
- 3 USSR 3.03 million ha compare
- 4 Sudan 2.88 million ha compare
- 4 United Republic of Tanzania 300,000 ha compare
- 5 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 72,422 ha compare
- 5 Sudan (former) 2.45 million ha compare
- 6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 61,262 ha compare
- 6 Mali 2.12 million ha compare
- 7 Nigeria 1.90 million ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is millet — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Millet — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 17.31 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest millet — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 18.75 million ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest millet — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 6.94 million ha in 1961.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for millet — area harvested?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 4th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is millet — area harvested rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Millet — 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.