Oil palm fruit — 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
Oil palm fruit — Area harvested is currently reported for 45 countries. The highest value is 14.32 million ha in Indonesia; the lowest is 600 ha in Suriname.
The median across all reporting countries is 50,672 ha, and the mean is 652,919 ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 23,867.
Over the past decade 41 countries rose and 4 fell. The largest increase was in Panama (up 383.9%), and the largest decrease in Ecuador (down 42.2%).
Oil palm fruit — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 14.32 million ha | 2024 | up 75.7% | volatile |
| 2 | Malaysia | 5.07 million ha | 2024 | up 8.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Nigeria | 4.49 million ha | 2024 | up 44.1% | rising |
| 4 | Thailand | 1.01 million ha | 2024 | up 57.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Colombia | 511,583 ha | 2024 | up 80.2% | volatile |
| 6 | Ghana | 435,934 ha | 2024 | up 24.9% | volatile |
| 7 | Côte d'Ivoire | 359,423 ha | 2024 | up 33.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Guinea | 333,229 ha | 2024 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 9 | Melanesia | 309,937 ha | 2024 | up 68.4% | volatile |
| 10 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 296,829 ha | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 11 | Papua New Guinea | 281,937 ha | 2024 | up 68.8% | volatile |
| 12 | Guatemala | 230,000 ha | 2024 | up 91.7% | volatile |
| 13 | Cameroon | 223,979 ha | 2024 | up 64.3% | volatile |
| 14 | Brazil | 221,828 ha | 2024 | up 75.3% | volatile |
| 15 | Honduras | 186,555 ha | 2024 | up 43.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Ecuador | 157,204 ha | 2024 | down 42.2% | volatile |
| 17 | Mexico | 102,610 ha | 2024 | up 101.7% | volatile |
| 18 | Peru | 100,000 ha | 2024 | up 166.2% | volatile |
| 19 | Costa Rica | 74,742 ha | 2024 | down 3.9% | volatile |
| 20 | Philippines | 68,315 ha | 2024 | up 24.0% | volatile |
| 21 | Gabon | 68,166 ha | 2024 | up 267.7% | volatile |
| 22 | Sierra Leone | 51,556 ha | 2024 | up 80.0% | rising |
| 23 | China, mainland | 50,672 ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 23 | China | 50,672 ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 25 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 48,098 ha | 2024 | up 21.5% | volatile |
| 26 | Benin | 42,069 ha | 2024 | up 16.0% | rising |
| 27 | Cambodia | 41,647 ha | 2024 | up 191.2% | volatile |
| 28 | Nicaragua | 29,980 ha | 2023 | up 76.4% | volatile |
| 29 | Solomon Islands | 28,000 ha | 2024 | up 64.7% | volatile |
| 30 | Panama | 25,770 ha | 2024 | up 383.9% | volatile |
| 31 | Dominican Republic | 25,000 ha | 2024 | up 33.6% | rising |
| 33 | Angola | 23,308 ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 34 | Liberia | 19,512 ha | 2024 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 35 | Togo | 16,800 ha | 2024 | up 26.2% | falling |
| 36 | Paraguay | 15,404 ha | 2024 | down 3.9% | flat |
| 37 | Congo | 12,438 ha | 2024 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 38 | Senegal | 11,822 ha | 2024 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 39 | Guinea-Bissau | 9,570 ha | 2024 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 40 | Burundi | 8,843 ha | 2024 | up 2.4% | volatile |
| 41 | United Republic of Tanzania | 5,603 ha | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 42 | Equatorial Guinea | 3,945 ha | 2024 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 43 | Gambia | 3,513 ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 44 | Sao Tome and Principe | 2,130 ha | 2024 | up 28.3% | volatile |
| 45 | Madagascar | 1,812 ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 46 | Suriname | 600 ha | 2024 | down 3.4% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 29.02 million ha
- Asia 20.56 million ha
- South-Eastern Asia 20.51 million ha
- Africa 6.42 million ha
- Western Africa 5.77 million ha
- Americas 1.73 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1.68 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 1.07 million ha
- South America 1.05 million ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 896,889 ha
- Central America 652,236 ha
- Middle Africa 631,442 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.