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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- World 11.07 million ha
- Europe 5.05 million ha
- Southern Europe 5.04 million ha
- European Union (27) 5.01 million ha
- Africa 3.88 million ha
- Northern Africa 3.88 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 3.31 million ha
- Asia 1.89 million ha
- Western Asia 1.85 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 683,546 ha
- Americas 205,779 ha
- South America 176,760 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.