Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Area harvested in Ireland
Ireland: Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Area harvested was 220 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Area harvested in Ireland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested in Ireland is 220 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 15.4% on the previous year and up 16.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested in Ireland peaked at 610 ha in 1977 and was at its lowest, 170 ha, in 2018.
Ireland ranks 119th of 140 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Area harvested in Ireland, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 330 ha | — |
| 1962 | 330 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 380 ha | +15.2% |
| 1964 | 330 ha | -13.2% |
| 1965 | 330 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 330 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 330 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 410 ha | +24.2% |
| 1969 | 410 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 380 ha | -7.3% |
| 1971 | 410 ha | +7.9% |
| 1972 | 410 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 295 ha | -28.0% |
| 1974 | 295 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 310 ha | +5.1% |
| 1976 | 406 ha | +31.0% |
| 1977 | 610 ha | +50.2% |
| 1978 | 508 ha | -16.7% |
| 1979 | 550 ha | +8.3% |
| 1980 | 300 ha | -45.5% |
| 1981 | 200 ha | -33.3% |
| 1982 | 300 ha | +50.0% |
| 1983 | 181 ha | -39.7% |
| 1984 | 187 ha | +3.3% |
| 1985 | 226 ha | +20.9% |
| 1986 | 194 ha | -14.2% |
| 1987 | 200 ha | +3.1% |
| 1988 | 200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 300 ha | +50.0% |
| 1992 | 200 ha | -33.3% |
| 1993 | 174 ha | -13.0% |
| 1994 | 179 ha | +2.9% |
| 1995 | 208 ha | +16.2% |
| 1996 | 226 ha | +8.7% |
| 1997 | 200 ha | -11.5% |
| 1998 | 211 ha | +5.5% |
| 1999 | 274 ha | +29.9% |
| 2000 | 241 ha | -12.0% |
| 2001 | 255 ha | +5.8% |
| 2002 | 223 ha | -12.5% |
| 2003 | 225 ha | +0.9% |
| 2004 | 225 ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 232 ha | +3.1% |
| 2006 | 232 ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 232 ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 231 ha | -0.4% |
| 2009 | 198 ha | -14.3% |
| 2010 | 198 ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 198 ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 198 ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 198 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 189 ha | -4.5% |
| 2015 | 190 ha | +0.5% |
| 2016 | 214 ha | +12.6% |
| 2017 | 190 ha | -11.2% |
| 2018 | 170 ha | -10.5% |
| 2019 | 290 ha | +70.6% |
| 2020 | 320 ha | +10.3% |
| 2021 | 270 ha | -15.6% |
| 2022 | 270 ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 260 ha | -3.7% |
| 2024 | 220 ha | -15.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 353.33 ha | 330 ha | 410 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 417.4 ha | 295 ha | 610 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 218.8 ha | 181 ha | 300 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 217.2 ha | 174 ha | 300 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 229.4 ha | 198 ha | 255 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 203.5 ha | 170 ha | 290 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 268 ha | 220 ha | 320 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested in Ireland?
- Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested in Ireland was 220 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested recorded in Ireland?
- The highest recorded value was 610 ha in 1977.
- What is the lowest onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested recorded in Ireland?
- The lowest recorded value was 170 ha in 2018.
- How does Ireland rank for onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested?
- Ireland ranks 119th out of 140 countries with data for 2024.
- Is onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested rising or falling in Ireland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Ireland data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.