Olives — 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
63
Highest
2.65 million ha
Spain
Lowest
0 ha
Ireland
Median
5,356 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,675

What the numbers show

Olives — Area harvested is currently reported for 63 countries. The highest value is 2.65 million ha in Spain; the lowest is 0 ha in Ireland.

The median across all reporting countries is 5,356 ha, and the mean is 176,582 ha.

Over the past decade 29 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in Brazil (up 1,670.1%), and the largest decrease in Serbia and Montenegro (down 64.6%).

Olives — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Spain 2.65 million ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
2 Tunisia 1.87 million ha 2024 up 17.4% rising
3 Morocco 1.24 million ha 2024 up 30.8% volatile
4 Italy 1.08 million ha 2024 down 6.4% falling
5 Türkiye 913,319 ha 2024 up 10.6% rising
6 Greece 848,400 ha 2024 up 3.7% rising
7 Syrian Arab Republic 681,220 ha 2024 down 2.3% volatile
8 Algeria 474,116 ha 2024 up 23.6% volatile
9 Portugal 380,780 ha 2024 up 8.1% rising
10 Libya 185,238 ha 2024 down 26.9% rising
11 Argentina 126,720 ha 2024 up 3.5% volatile
12 Egypt 117,744 ha 2024 up 93.5% volatile
13 Palestine 66,416 ha 2022 up 18.0% falling
14 Lebanon 64,600 ha 2024 up 9.8% rising
15 Jordan 57,840 ha 2024 down 7.7% rising
16 Albania 51,115 ha 2024 up 27.9% rising
17 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 34,142 ha 2024 down 23.8% volatile
18 Israel 33,700 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
19 Australia 32,889 ha 2024 up 12.5% volatile
19 Australia and New Zealand 32,889 ha 2024 up 12.5% volatile
21 Saudi Arabia 24,004 ha 2024 down 20.0% falling
22 Yugoslav SFR 23,686 ha 1991 down 5.3% flat
23 Peru 20,521 ha 2024 up 20.7% volatile
24 Croatia 20,110 ha 2024 up 5.4% rising
25 Chile 19,906 ha 2024 up 0.9% volatile
26 France 16,310 ha 2024 down 5.3% falling
27 Cyprus 11,450 ha 2024 up 5.2% falling
28 Azerbaijan 8,742 ha 2024 up 406.8% volatile
29 Iraq 7,115 ha 2024 up 57.1% volatile
30 Mexico 5,842 ha 2024 up 61.2% rising
31 El Salvador 5,775 ha 2024 up 6.5% rising
32 North Macedonia 5,356 ha 2024 down 5.0% falling
33 Uruguay 5,347 ha 2024 up 91.0% volatile
34 Brazil 4,266 ha 2024 up 1,670.1% volatile
35 Pakistan 3,360 ha 2024 volatile
36 Serbia and Montenegro 2,600 ha 2005 down 64.6% volatile
37 Afghanistan 2,187 ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
38 Slovenia 1,670 ha 2024 up 67.7% rising
39 Montenegro 786 ha 2024 up 144.1% flat
40 Bosnia and Herzegovina 347 ha 2024 up 157.0% volatile
41 China, Taiwan Province of 315 ha 2024 unchanged rising
41 China 315 ha 2024 unchanged rising
43 Malta 190 ha 2024 up 211.5% volatile
44 Uzbekistan 139 ha 2024 down 7.3% rising
45 Kuwait 56 ha 2024 up 47.4% volatile
46 Poland 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Austria 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Belgium 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Bulgaria 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Romania 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Slovakia 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Czechia 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Germany 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Denmark 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Estonia 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Finland 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Sweden 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Latvia 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Luxembourg 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Lithuania 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Hungary 0 ha 2024 flat
46 Ireland 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
Olives — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
87 places, 3,675 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.