Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Area harvested in Lebanon
Lebanon: Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Area harvested was 3,400 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Area harvested in Lebanon, 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 Lebanon is 3,400 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 14.1% on the previous year and up 6.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested in Lebanon peaked at 4,564 ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 1,000 ha, in 1964.
Lebanon ranks 77th of 140 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Area harvested in Lebanon, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,200 ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,200 ha | +83.3% |
| 1963 | 2,500 ha | +13.6% |
| 1964 | 1,000 ha | -60.0% |
| 1965 | 2,250 ha | +125.0% |
| 1966 | 2,610 ha | +16.0% |
| 1967 | 3,018 ha | +15.6% |
| 1968 | 3,140 ha | +4.0% |
| 1969 | 1,870 ha | -40.4% |
| 1970 | 1,738 ha | -7.1% |
| 1971 | 1,836 ha | +5.6% |
| 1972 | 1,637 ha | -10.8% |
| 1973 | 1,510 ha | -7.8% |
| 1974 | 2,919 ha | +93.3% |
| 1975 | 1,600 ha | -45.2% |
| 1976 | 1,200 ha | -25.0% |
| 1977 | 1,400 ha | +16.7% |
| 1978 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,200 ha | -14.3% |
| 1981 | 2,000 ha | +66.7% |
| 1982 | 2,300 ha | +15.0% |
| 1983 | 2,000 ha | -13.0% |
| 1984 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 3,000 ha | +50.0% |
| 1986 | 3,150 ha | +5.0% |
| 1987 | 3,325 ha | +5.6% |
| 1988 | 3,580 ha | +7.7% |
| 1989 | 3,712 ha | +3.7% |
| 1990 | 3,787 ha | +2.0% |
| 1991 | 3,730 ha | -1.5% |
| 1992 | 3,754 ha | +0.6% |
| 1993 | 3,800 ha | +1.2% |
| 1994 | 3,877 ha | +2.0% |
| 1995 | 4,050 ha | +4.5% |
| 1996 | 4,336 ha | +7.1% |
| 1997 | 2,900 ha | -33.1% |
| 1998 | 2,500 ha | -13.8% |
| 1999 | 2,800 ha | +12.0% |
| 2000 | 4,564 ha | +63.0% |
| 2001 | 4,120 ha | -9.7% |
| 2002 | 2,343 ha | -43.1% |
| 2003 | 1,985 ha | -15.3% |
| 2004 | 2,010 ha | +1.3% |
| 2005 | 2,000 ha | -0.5% |
| 2006 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 1,800 ha | -10.0% |
| 2008 | 2,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 2009 | 3,132 ha | +56.6% |
| 2010 | 3,246 ha | +3.6% |
| 2011 | 3,339 ha | +2.9% |
| 2012 | 3,426 ha | +2.6% |
| 2013 | 3,488 ha | +1.8% |
| 2014 | 3,200 ha | -8.3% |
| 2015 | 3,048 ha | -4.8% |
| 2016 | 3,029 ha | -0.6% |
| 2017 | 2,519 ha | -16.8% |
| 2018 | 3,408 ha | +35.3% |
| 2019 | 3,648 ha | +7.0% |
| 2020 | 3,919 ha | +7.4% |
| 2021 | 3,521 ha | -10.2% |
| 2022 | 3,332 ha | -5.4% |
| 2023 | 2,980 ha | -10.6% |
| 2024 | 3,400 ha | +14.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,199 ha | 1,000 ha | 3,140 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,664 ha | 1,200 ha | 2,919 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,627 ha | 1,200 ha | 3,712 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,553 ha | 2,500 ha | 4,336 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,595 ha | 1,800 ha | 4,564 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,235 ha | 2,519 ha | 3,648 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,430 ha | 2,980 ha | 3,919 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested in Lebanon?
- Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested in Lebanon was 3,400 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 Lebanon?
- The highest recorded value was 4,564 ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested recorded in Lebanon?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,000 ha in 1964.
- How does Lebanon rank for onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested?
- Lebanon ranks 77th out of 140 countries with data for 2024.
- Is onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — area harvested rising or falling in Lebanon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.2%. 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 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.