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...

Countries reporting
45
Highest
14.32 million ha
Indonesia
Lowest
600 ha
Suriname
Median
50,672 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,870

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

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Indicator
Oil palm fruit — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
64 places, 3,870 data points, 1961–2024
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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.