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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- World 3.17 million ha
- Africa 2.51 million ha
- Western Africa 2.43 million ha
- Asia 638,039 ha
- Southern Asia 604,882 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 439,867 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 349,014 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 320,546 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 172,285 ha
- Northern Africa 34,106 ha
- Middle Africa 32,553 ha
- Western Asia 24,395 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.