Oats — Area harvested in Norway
Norway: Oats — Area harvested was 69,523 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Oats — Area harvested in Norway, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Norway recorded 69,523 ha for oats — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 1.6% on the previous year and down 3.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oats — area harvested in Norway peaked at 133,703 ha in 1991 and was at its lowest, 41,227 ha, in 1966.
Norway ranks 28th of 84 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 49,665 ha | 41,227 ha | 62,062 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 93,790 ha | 67,691 ha | 103,185 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 122,848 ha | 111,983 ha | 133,398 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 106,297 ha | 91,310 ha | 133,703 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 81,167 ha | 72,385 ha | 95,940 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 68,970 ha | 55,098 ha | 76,169 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 67,222 ha | 63,074 ha | 69,523 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Norway
- Agriculture share gdp 1.64 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.64 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2025)
- Rural population 16.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 921,833 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.72 billion current US$ (2025)
- Tomatoes — Production 15,100 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oats — area harvested in Norway?
- Oats — area harvested in Norway was 69,523 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oats — area harvested recorded in Norway?
- The highest recorded value was 133,703 ha in 1991.
- What is the lowest oats — area harvested recorded in Norway?
- The lowest recorded value was 41,227 ha in 1966.
- How does Norway rank for oats — area harvested?
- Norway ranks 28th out of 84 countries with data for 2024.
- Is oats — area harvested rising or falling in Norway?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Norway data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Oats — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.