Other oil seeds, n.e.c. — 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
Other oil seeds, n.e.c. — Area harvested is currently reported for 73 countries. The highest value is 797,431 ha in Pakistan; the lowest is 0 ha in USSR.
The median across all reporting countries is 10,400 ha, and the mean is 40,838 ha.
Over the past decade 41 countries rose and 30 fell. The largest increase was in Czechia (up 2,572.6%), and the largest decrease in USSR (down 100.0%).
Other oil seeds, n.e.c. — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pakistan | 797,431 ha | 2024 | up 27.4% | volatile |
| 2 | China (People’s Republic of) | 255,851 ha | 2024 | down 13.3% | falling |
| 3 | China, mainland | 231,088 ha | 2024 | down 14.4% | falling |
| 4 | Ethiopia | 196,687 ha | 2024 | down 22.1% | falling |
| 5 | Mozambique | 125,273 ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 6 | Sudan (former) | 108,000 ha | 2011 | down 6.1% | falling |
| 7 | Kenya | 97,482 ha | 2024 | up 4.5% | volatile |
| 8 | India | 85,986 ha | 2024 | down 63.3% | falling |
| 9 | Malaysia | 82,619 ha | 2024 | down 46.6% | volatile |
| 10 | Eritrea | 58,562 ha | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 11 | Canada | 56,861 ha | 2024 | up 12.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Russian Federation | 56,100 ha | 2024 | down 76.4% | volatile |
| 13 | Kazakhstan | 56,008 ha | 2024 | up 698.1% | volatile |
| 14 | Uganda | 55,203 ha | 2024 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 15 | Ethiopia PDR | 53,599 ha | 1992 | down 68.9% | flat |
| 16 | Czechia | 49,230 ha | 2024 | up 2,572.6% | volatile |
| 17 | South Sudan | 47,928 ha | 2024 | down 17.8% | falling |
| 18 | Poland | 44,050 ha | 2024 | up 44.6% | rising |
| 19 | Spain | 43,040 ha | 2024 | up 77.6% | rising |
| 20 | Republic of Korea | 40,154 ha | 2024 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 21 | Nepal | 39,621 ha | 2024 | up 112.6% | rising |
| 22 | Austria | 37,910 ha | 2024 | up 49.7% | volatile |
| 23 | Central African Republic | 37,460 ha | 2024 | up 6.1% | rising |
| 24 | Brazil | 36,915 ha | 2024 | up 70.1% | volatile |
| 25 | Japan | 29,000 ha | 1996 | up 45.0% | rising |
| 26 | Hungary | 25,710 ha | 2024 | up 82.7% | volatile |
| 27 | China, Taiwan Province of | 24,763 ha | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 28 | Zimbabwe | 22,561 ha | 2024 | down 5.8% | flat |
| 29 | Ukraine | 21,515 ha | 2024 | up 53.7% | rising |
| 30 | France | 19,490 ha | 2024 | up 130.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Philippines | 16,761 ha | 2024 | up 2.2% | volatile |
| 32 | Sudan | 15,597 ha | 2024 | up 35.6% | rising |
| 33 | Niger | 11,561 ha | 2024 | up 12.3% | volatile |
| 34 | Costa Rica | 11,271 ha | 2024 | up 61.0% | volatile |
| 35 | Slovak Republic | 10,910 ha | 2024 | up 872.4% | volatile |
| 36 | Azerbaijan | 10,586 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 37 | Lithuania | 10,400 ha | 2024 | up 79.3% | rising |
| 38 | Germany | 9,900 ha | 2024 | up 94.1% | volatile |
| 39 | South Africa | 5,498 ha | 2024 | down 4.7% | volatile |
| 40 | Estonia | 5,480 ha | 2024 | up 54.8% | rising |
| 41 | Bulgaria | 5,330 ha | 2024 | down 33.5% | volatile |
| 42 | Israel | 4,025 ha | 2024 | up 6.9% | volatile |
| 43 | Slovenia | 3,900 ha | 2024 | down 2.7% | falling |
| 44 | Croatia | 2,930 ha | 2024 | down 12.8% | volatile |
| 45 | Bangladesh | 2,796 ha | 2024 | up 138.6% | volatile |
| 46 | Romania | 2,570 ha | 2024 | down 32.9% | falling |
| 47 | Latvia | 2,200 ha | 2024 | up 2,100.0% | volatile |
| 48 | Czechoslovakia | 1,715 ha | 1992 | down 25.0% | volatile |
| 49 | Peru | 1,582 ha | 2024 | up 36.3% | rising |
| 50 | Uzbekistan | 1,490 ha | 2024 | down 53.4% | falling |
| 51 | Finland | 1,300 ha | 2024 | up 85.7% | rising |
| 52 | Italy | 1,160 ha | 2024 | down 98.5% | volatile |
| 53 | Serbia | 912 ha | 2024 | up 57.5% | rising |
| 54 | Greece | 820 ha | 2024 | down 58.1% | falling |
| 55 | Portugal | 780 ha | 2024 | down 49.7% | falling |
| 56 | Samoa | 561 ha | 2024 | up 9.1% | rising |
| 57 | Madagascar | 515 ha | 2024 | up 221.9% | volatile |
| 58 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 420 ha | 2024 | down 23.6% | falling |
| 59 | Belgium | 330 ha | 2024 | up 120.0% | rising |
| 60 | North Macedonia | 283 ha | 2000 | up 183.0% | volatile |
| 61 | Morocco | 247 ha | 2024 | up 4.7% | volatile |
| 62 | Switzerland | 234 ha | 2024 | up 377.6% | volatile |
| 63 | Cambodia | 222 ha | 2024 | down 1.8% | volatile |
| 64 | Nigeria | 210 ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | volatile |
| 65 | Ghana | 194 ha | 2024 | down 3.0% | falling |
| 66 | Benin | 142 ha | 2024 | down 12.9% | volatile |
| 67 | Cameroon | 110 ha | 2024 | down 45.0% | rising |
| 68 | Luxembourg | 50 ha | 2024 | down 16.7% | falling |
| 69 | Cyprus | 30 ha | 2024 | down 62.5% | falling |
| 70 | Kyrgyzstan | 27 ha | 2024 | down 10.0% | volatile |
| 71 | Denmark | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 71 | Malta | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 71 | USSR | 0 ha | 1991 | 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 1.39 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1.63 million ha
- Southern Asia 926,455 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 808,539 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 479,132 ha
- European Union (27) 277,940 ha
- Europe 356,671 ha
- Americas 106,629 ha
- Eastern Asia 296,005 ha
- Western Europe 68,334 ha
- Eastern Europe 215,415 ha
- Northern America 56,861 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.