Okra — 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
60
Highest
2.09 million ha
Nigeria
Lowest
0 ha
Nauru
Median
1,242 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,621

What the numbers show

Okra — Area harvested is currently reported for 60 countries. The highest value is 2.09 million ha in Nigeria; the lowest is 0 ha in Nauru.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,242 ha, and the mean is 52,848 ha.

Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Fiji (up 4,150.0%), and the largest decrease in Kuwait (down 68.2%).

Okra — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Nigeria 2.09 million ha 2024 up 91.2% volatile
2 India 557,001 ha 2024 up 4.6% rising
3 Niger 108,673 ha 2024 up 245.7% volatile
4 Côte d'Ivoire 63,878 ha 2024 up 23.7% rising
5 Mali 55,506 ha 2024 up 292.4% volatile
6 Guinea 47,514 ha 2024 up 17.0% rising
7 Cameroon 32,016 ha 2024 up 11.4% rising
8 Pakistan 27,310 ha 2024 up 83.8% volatile
9 Sudan 27,234 ha 2024 down 3.8% rising
10 Benin 23,000 ha 2024 up 59.8% volatile
11 Sudan (former) 21,504 ha 2011 down 20.4% rising
12 Bangladesh 12,654 ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
13 Caribbean 10,785 ha 2024 up 5.4% volatile
14 Dominican Republic 9,767 ha 2024 up 6.2% volatile
15 United Republic of Tanzania 9,690 ha 2024 down 4.8% flat
16 Sri Lanka 7,907 ha 2024 down 6.5% rising
17 Egypt 6,872 ha 2024 up 44.8% rising
18 Iraq 5,753 ha 2024 down 65.5% volatile
19 Yemen 4,847 ha 2024 up 40.9% volatile
20 Philippines 4,361 ha 2024 up 19.5% rising
21 Türkiye 4,281 ha 2024 down 33.8% rising
22 Malaysia 3,854 ha 2024 up 23.5% volatile
23 Mexico 3,770 ha 2024 up 28.6% volatile
24 Syrian Arab Republic 3,609 ha 2024 up 12.6% falling
25 Zimbabwe 3,534 ha 2024 up 24.3% rising
26 Burkina Faso 3,119 ha 2024 up 7.2% rising
27 Ghana 3,069 ha 2024 down 2.9% volatile
28 Saudi Arabia 3,033 ha 2024 up 39.7% volatile
29 Kenya 1,447 ha 2024 up 106.7% volatile
30 Malawi 1,442 ha 2024 up 6.3% rising
31 Guatemala 1,041 ha 2024 up 4.1% rising
32 Jordan 970 ha 2024 down 17.0% volatile
33 Albania 716 ha 2024 down 2.6% rising
34 Oman 650 ha 2024 up 55.1% volatile
35 Jamaica 629 ha 2024 up 3.8% rising
36 Senegal 597 ha 2024 down 56.1% volatile
37 Brunei Darussalam 547 ha 2024 up 9.4% rising
38 Congo 521 ha 2024 up 0.4% rising
39 Fiji 510 ha 2024 up 4,150.0% volatile
39 Melanesia 510 ha 2024 up 4,150.0% volatile
41 Palestine 396 ha 2022 down 18.9% falling
42 Lebanon 372 ha 2024 up 29.6% volatile
42 United Arab Emirates 372 ha 2024 up 359.3% volatile
44 Trinidad and Tobago 296 ha 2024 down 19.3% falling
45 Mauritius 157 ha 2024 down 27.6% rising
46 Qatar 149 ha 2024 up 144.3% volatile
47 Guyana 107 ha 2024 down 42.5% volatile
48 Kuwait 63 ha 2024 down 68.2% volatile
49 Barbados 45 ha 2024 up 95.7% volatile
50 Bahrain 34 ha 2024 up 54.5% volatile
51 Cyprus 31 ha 2017 down 64.8% rising
52 Bahamas 19 ha 2024 unchanged flat
53 Gabon 17 ha 2024 unchanged falling
54 Antigua and Barbuda 15 ha 2024 rising
55 Puerto Rico 14 ha 2024 down 17.6% volatile
56 Bhutan 10 ha 2024 down 23.1% falling
56 Belize 10 ha 2024 down 9.1% volatile
58 Djibouti 4 ha 2024 up 33.3% rising
59 Micronesia 0 ha 2024 flat
59 Nauru 0 ha 2024 flat

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
Okra — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
84 places, 3,621 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.