Onions and shallots, green — 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
Onions and shallots, green — Area harvested is currently reported for 59 countries. The highest value is 33,825 ha in Angola; the lowest is 0 ha in Philippines.
The median across all reporting countries is 928 ha, and the mean is 4,699 ha.
Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Portugal (up 865.1%), and the largest decrease in Philippines (down 100.0%).
Onions and shallots, green — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angola | 33,825 ha | 2024 | up 67.3% | volatile |
| 2 | Mali | 32,432 ha | 2024 | up 412.2% | volatile |
| 3 | China (People’s Republic of) | 27,726 ha | 2024 | up 4.3% | volatile |
| 4 | Japan | 23,629 ha | 2024 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 5 | China, mainland | 23,524 ha | 2024 | up 8.2% | volatile |
| 6 | Republic of Korea | 16,528 ha | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 7 | Nigeria | 14,417 ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 8 | Morocco | 13,113 ha | 2024 | up 631.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Ecuador | 11,111 ha | 2024 | down 3.5% | rising |
| 10 | Tunisia | 10,423 ha | 2024 | up 6.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Thailand | 9,782 ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | falling |
| 12 | Mexico | 8,437 ha | 2024 | down 2.1% | rising |
| 13 | New Zealand | 5,923 ha | 2024 | up 16.9% | volatile |
| 13 | Australia and New Zealand | 5,923 ha | 2024 | up 16.9% | volatile |
| 15 | Iraq | 5,625 ha | 2024 | down 59.3% | volatile |
| 16 | China, Taiwan Province of | 4,059 ha | 2024 | down 13.7% | flat |
| 17 | Ethiopia | 3,041 ha | 2024 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 18 | France | 2,350 ha | 2017 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 19 | Albania | 2,335 ha | 2024 | up 51.5% | rising |
| 20 | Germany | 2,285 ha | 2017 | up 67.2% | rising |
| 21 | Ukraine | 2,100 ha | 2024 | down 32.3% | falling |
| 22 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1,977 ha | 2017 | up 41.2% | volatile |
| 23 | Libya | 1,807 ha | 2024 | down 16.5% | volatile |
| 24 | Ethiopia PDR | 1,700 ha | 1992 | up 21.4% | volatile |
| 25 | Portugal | 1,689 ha | 2017 | up 865.1% | volatile |
| 26 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 1,546 ha | 2024 | down 1.7% | volatile |
| 27 | Paraguay | 1,172 ha | 2024 | up 46.5% | falling |
| 28 | Burkina Faso | 1,061 ha | 2024 | down 0.8% | rising |
| 29 | Norway | 1,000 ha | 2024 | down 9.8% | rising |
| 30 | Greece | 928 ha | 2017 | down 54.0% | falling |
| 31 | Bulgaria | 721 ha | 2017 | down 23.3% | falling |
| 32 | Spain | 698 ha | 2017 | down 39.5% | falling |
| 33 | Comoros | 640 ha | 2024 | up 25.7% | volatile |
| 34 | Jamaica | 504 ha | 2024 | down 43.8% | rising |
| 35 | Palestine | 457 ha | 2022 | up 149.7% | rising |
| 36 | United Arab Emirates | 437 ha | 2024 | down 58.2% | volatile |
| 37 | Israel | 301 ha | 2024 | down 30.8% | volatile |
| 38 | Réunion | 297 ha | 2006 | up 10.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Switzerland | 250 ha | 2024 | up 61.3% | volatile |
| 40 | Jordan | 221 ha | 2024 | down 63.7% | volatile |
| 41 | Niger | 209 ha | 1990 | up 22.9% | falling |
| 42 | Madagascar | 185 ha | 2024 | up 6.3% | volatile |
| 43 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 143 ha | 2024 | down 4.0% | volatile |
| 44 | Hungary | 137 ha | 2017 | up 82.7% | volatile |
| 45 | North Macedonia | 86 ha | 2024 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 45 | Bahamas | 86 ha | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 47 | Belize | 81 ha | 2024 | up 68.8% | volatile |
| 48 | Bhutan | 65 ha | 2024 | down 34.3% | falling |
| 49 | Kuwait | 61 ha | 2024 | down 96.1% | volatile |
| 50 | Cyprus | 56 ha | 2017 | down 12.5% | rising |
| 51 | Algeria | 33 ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 52 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 31 ha | 1999 | up 138.5% | volatile |
| 53 | Puerto Rico | 25 ha | 2024 | down 60.9% | volatile |
| 54 | Costa Rica | 15 ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 55 | Brunei Darussalam | 12 ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 55 | French Polynesia | 12 ha | 2024 | up 33.3% | volatile |
| 57 | Djibouti | 8 ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 58 | Singapore | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 58 | Philippines | 0 ha | 2001 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Asia 101,046 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 99,245 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 47,476 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 37,857 ha
- Americas 24,272 ha
- European Union (27) 10,841 ha
- Northern Europe 2,546 ha
- Western Europe 250 ha
- South America 15,123 ha
- Europe 7,318 ha
- Oceania 5,937 ha
- Côte d'Ivoire 886 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.