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 66 countries. The highest value is 33,825 ha in Angola; the lowest is 0 ha in Philippines.
The median across all reporting countries is 964 ha, and the mean is 4,514 ha.
Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 29 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 | 27,726 ha | 2024 | up 4.3% | volatile |
| 4 | Japan | 23,629 ha | 2024 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 4 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 7,320 ha | 2024 | up 1.4% | volatile |
| 5 | China, mainland | 23,524 ha | 2024 | up 8.2% | volatile |
| 5 | Türkiye | 6,213 ha | 2024 | down 33.8% | falling |
| 6 | Republic of Korea | 16,528 ha | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 6 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 2,841 ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 7 | Nigeria | 14,417 ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 7 | Syrian Arab Republic | 2,797 ha | 2024 | down 6.5% | rising |
| 8 | Morocco | 13,113 ha | 2024 | up 631.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Ecuador | 11,111 ha | 2024 | down 3.5% | rising |
| 9 | Polynesia | 12 ha | 2024 | up 33.3% | volatile |
| 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 | Australia and New Zealand | 5,923 ha | 2024 | up 16.9% | volatile |
| 13 | 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 |
| 21 | Côte d'Ivoire | 886 ha | 2024 | up 3.3% | flat |
| 22 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1,977 ha | 2017 | up 41.2% | volatile |
| 22 | Caribbean | 616 ha | 2024 | down 40.8% | rising |
| 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 | Bahamas | 86 ha | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 45 | North Macedonia | 86 ha | 2024 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 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.
- World 250,443 ha
- Asia 101,046 ha
- Africa 111,870 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 71,192 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 99,245 ha
- Middle Africa 33,825 ha
- Eastern Asia 75,203 ha
- Western Africa 48,795 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 47,476 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 37,857 ha
- Northern Africa 25,376 ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 1,351 ha
- Americas 24,272 ha
- Western Asia 15,984 ha
- South America 15,123 ha
- European Union (27) 10,841 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 9,794 ha
- Central America 8,533 ha
- Europe 7,318 ha
- Oceania 5,937 ha
- Eastern Africa 3,875 ha
- Northern Europe 2,546 ha
- Southern Europe 2,422 ha
- Eastern Europe 2,100 ha
- Western Europe 250 ha
- Southern Asia 65 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.