Olives — Area harvested in Lebanon
Lebanon: Olives — Area harvested was 64,600 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Olives — Area harvested in Lebanon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Lebanon recorded 64,600 ha for olives — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.8% on the previous year and up 9.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, olives — area harvested in Lebanon peaked at 64,600 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 10,000 ha, in 1962.
That places Lebanon 14th out of 63 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 25,340 ha | 10,000 ha | 28,618 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 26,519 ha | 21,000 ha | 28,337 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 34,526 ha | 31,000 ha | 42,515 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 45,878 ha | 42,765 ha | 51,552 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 57,647 ha | 55,646 ha | 59,100 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 57,969 ha | 53,600 ha | 63,404 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 64,193 ha | 64,071 ha | 64,600 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Lebanon
- Agriculture share gdp 1.05 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.05 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2024)
- Rural population 9.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth -2.1% (2025)
- Rural population 528,774 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.0% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 271.42 million current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 40,600 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is olives — area harvested in Lebanon?
- Olives — area harvested in Lebanon was 64,600 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest olives — area harvested recorded in Lebanon?
- The highest recorded value was 64,600 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest olives — area harvested recorded in Lebanon?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,000 ha in 1962.
- How does Lebanon rank for olives — area harvested?
- Lebanon ranks 14th out of 63 countries with data for 2024.
- Is olives — area harvested rising or falling in Lebanon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lebanon data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Olives — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.