Oats — 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
84
Highest
10.63 million ha
USSR
Lowest
0 ha
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Median
20,510 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,928

What the numbers show

Oats — Area harvested is currently reported for 84 countries. The highest value is 10.63 million ha in USSR; the lowest is 0 ha in Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The median across all reporting countries is 20,510 ha, and the mean is 238,010 ha.

Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 47 fell. The largest increase was in Syrian Arab Republic (up 471.4%), and the largest decrease in Colombia (down 100.0%).

Oats — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 USSR 10.63 million ha 1991 down 14.7% rising
2 Russian Federation 1.60 million ha 2024 down 48.2% falling
3 Canada 993,200 ha 2024 up 5.8% falling
4 Australia and New Zealand 746,420 ha 2024 down 13.3% falling
5 Australia 742,000 ha 2024 down 13.2% falling
6 Brazil 539,317 ha 2024 up 126.2% volatile
7 Poland 519,000 ha 2024 up 8.4% falling
8 Spain 514,060 ha 2024 up 19.5% flat
9 Finland 328,300 ha 2024 up 7.7% falling
10 Argentina 277,521 ha 2024 up 22.7% falling
11 Kazakhstan 193,199 ha 2024 up 0.5% volatile
12 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 182,046 ha 2024 up 32.7% volatile
13 Ukraine 173,800 ha 2024 down 28.7% falling
14 Sweden 157,430 ha 2024 down 1.3% falling
15 Germany 156,200 ha 2024 up 26.2% volatile
16 Belarus 155,000 ha 2024 up 2.4% falling
17 China 154,830 ha 2024 down 3.2% volatile
17 China, mainland 154,830 ha 2024 down 3.2% volatile
19 Türkiye 142,587 ha 2024 up 52.3% volatile
20 Yugoslav SFR 130,455 ha 1991 down 32.8% falling
21 Lithuania 107,880 ha 2024 up 42.1% rising
22 Latvia 104,900 ha 2024 up 60.4% rising
23 Italy 94,320 ha 2024 down 8.8% falling
24 Chile 85,215 ha 2024 down 37.5% rising
25 Czechoslovakia 82,557 ha 1992 down 48.7% volatile
26 Algeria 80,000 ha 2024 up 23.5% falling
27 France 78,200 ha 2024 down 21.1% volatile
28 Norway 69,523 ha 2024 down 3.4% falling
29 Romania 68,770 ha 2024 down 61.6% rising
30 Greece 66,740 ha 2024 up 56.0% falling
31 Czechia 52,620 ha 2024 up 24.4% falling
32 Denmark 51,910 ha 2024 up 17.4% volatile
33 Estonia 48,360 ha 2024 up 77.1% falling
34 Serbia and Montenegro 46,006 ha 2005 down 38.1% falling
35 Ethiopia PDR 40,460 ha 1992 down 49.0% volatile
36 Mexico 38,160 ha 2024 down 27.4% falling
37 Portugal 36,100 ha 2024 down 28.6% volatile
38 Ireland 29,770 ha 2024 up 60.1% volatile
39 Ethiopia 28,172 ha 2024 down 35.1% falling
40 Hungary 25,510 ha 2024 down 49.9% falling
41 Mongolia 24,518 ha 2024 up 133.7% volatile
42 Bulgaria 23,570 ha 2024 up 58.3% volatile
43 Austria 17,450 ha 2024 down 25.1% volatile
44 Croatia 16,750 ha 2024 down 20.8% falling
45 Morocco 16,252 ha 2024 down 61.1% falling
46 Uruguay 16,161 ha 2024 up 15.4% volatile
47 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 14,685 ha 2024 down 4.4% volatile
48 Peru 14,496 ha 2024 up 16.5% volatile
49 Serbia 14,328 ha 2024 down 53.4% falling
50 Albania 13,877 ha 2024 down 1.4% falling
51 Belgium-Luxembourg 12,100 ha 1999 down 45.0% volatile
52 Slovakia 11,980 ha 2024 down 22.0% falling
53 Bosnia and Herzegovina 11,840 ha 2024 up 25.1% falling
54 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 10,916 ha 2024 down 4.7% volatile
55 Armenia 6,507 ha 2024 up 178.1% volatile
56 Azerbaijan 4,431 ha 2024 up 201.8% volatile
57 New Zealand 4,420 ha 2024 down 33.7% falling
58 Tunisia 4,388 ha 2024 down 10.4% volatile
59 Kenya 3,647 ha 2024 down 7.5% falling
60 Belgium 3,210 ha 2024 up 3.5% falling
61 North Macedonia 2,587 ha 2024 down 10.0% flat
62 Switzerland 2,135 ha 2024 up 42.9% volatile
63 Tajikistan 1,959 ha 2024 down 19.6% rising
64 Republic of Moldova 1,621 ha 2024 down 3.1% volatile
65 Georgia 1,400 ha 2024 down 61.1% volatile
66 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,380 ha 2024 down 21.2% volatile
67 Luxembourg 1,270 ha 2024 up 7.8% falling
68 Ecuador 1,160 ha 2024 down 2.6% volatile
69 Israel 896 ha 2024 up 2.8% rising
70 Kyrgyzstan 870 ha 2024 up 3.4% volatile
71 Slovenia 770 ha 2024 down 43.5% falling
72 Montenegro 462 ha 2024 up 120.0% rising
73 Zimbabwe 302 ha 2024 up 4.1% volatile
74 Uzbekistan 265 ha 2024 down 65.4% volatile
75 Cyprus 250 ha 2024 up 9.2% volatile
76 Lesotho 222 ha 2024 down 3.9% volatile
77 Japan 162 ha 2024 down 11.0% volatile
78 Lebanon 118 ha 2024 down 18.1% volatile
79 Ghana 44 ha 2024 down 2.2% rising
80 Syrian Arab Republic 40 ha 2024 up 471.4% volatile
81 Colombia 0 ha 1992 down 100.0% volatile
81 Iraq 0 ha 2023 down 100.0% volatile
81 Malta 0 ha 2024 flat
81 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0 ha 2024 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
Oats — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
112 places, 5,928 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.