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
58
Highest
2.09 million ha
Nigeria
Lowest
4 ha
Djibouti
Median
1,444 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,621

What the numbers show

Okra — Area harvested is currently reported for 58 countries. The highest value is 2.09 million ha in Nigeria; the lowest is 4 ha in Djibouti.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,444 ha, and the mean is 54,670 ha.

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

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
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
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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.