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...

Countries reporting
59
Highest
33,825 ha
Angola
Lowest
0 ha
Philippines
Median
928 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,756

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

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Indicator
Onions and shallots, green — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
92 places, 4,756 data points, 1961–2024
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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.