Papayas — 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
74
Highest
148,977 ha
India
Lowest
0 ha
Micronesia
Median
1,064 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,983

What the numbers show

Papayas — Area harvested is currently reported for 74 countries. The highest value is 148,977 ha in India; the lowest is 0 ha in Micronesia.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,064 ha, and the mean is 6,742 ha.

Over the past decade 46 countries rose and 23 fell. The largest increase was in Bhutan (up 500.0%), and the largest decrease in Rwanda (down 93.4%).

Papayas — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 148,977 ha 2024 up 11.7% volatile
2 Nigeria 95,363 ha 2024 up 1.2% rising
3 Brazil 27,681 ha 2024 down 13.6% volatile
4 Mexico 20,411 ha 2024 up 40.4% rising
5 Caribbean 19,304 ha 2024 up 72.2% volatile
6 Dominican Republic 14,229 ha 2024 up 431.7% volatile
7 Peru 12,424 ha 2024 down 0.5% volatile
8 Democratic Republic of the Congo 12,241 ha 2024 down 1.2% rising
9 Indonesia 12,100 ha 2024 up 24.9% volatile
10 China 11,010 ha 2024 up 39.1% volatile
11 Viet Nam 9,577 ha 2024 up 87.6% volatile
12 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 8,868 ha 2024 down 3.4% volatile
13 China, mainland 8,515 ha 2024 up 51.6% volatile
14 Philippines 7,766 ha 2024 down 1.9% falling
15 Kenya 7,722 ha 2024 down 12.7% rising
16 Colombia 7,504 ha 2024 up 55.7% volatile
17 Ethiopia 7,219 ha 2024 up 142.2% rising
18 Bangladesh 7,155 ha 2024 down 67.5% volatile
19 Côte d'Ivoire 5,859 ha 2024 up 7.9% rising
20 Malawi 5,020 ha 2024 up 14.1% rising
21 Mali 4,778 ha 2024 up 55.1% volatile
22 Mozambique 4,329 ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
23 Thailand 4,056 ha 2024 down 6.1% rising
24 Ecuador 3,809 ha 2024 up 8.8% volatile
25 Lao People's Democratic Republic 3,242 ha 2024 up 35.1% rising
26 Guatemala 2,833 ha 2024 up 9.6% volatile
27 Cuba 2,640 ha 2024 down 60.3% rising
28 China, Taiwan Province of 2,494 ha 2024 up 8.7% rising
29 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,342 ha 2024 up 1.1% rising
30 Malaysia 2,024 ha 2024 down 27.0% volatile
31 Pakistan 1,684 ha 2024 up 19.9% volatile
32 Ghana 1,659 ha 2024 up 5.0% rising
33 Yemen 1,552 ha 2024 down 6.6% volatile
34 Haiti 1,272 ha 2024 up 17.5% volatile
35 Nepal 1,231 ha 2024 down 16.6% falling
36 Paraguay 1,065 ha 2024 down 1.1% falling
37 Australia and New Zealand 1,064 ha 2024 up 150.4% volatile
37 Australia 1,064 ha 2024 up 150.4% volatile
39 Costa Rica 1,015 ha 2024 up 12.8% volatile
40 Puerto Rico 586 ha 2024 up 153.7% volatile
41 Panama 575 ha 2024 up 197.9% volatile
42 Jamaica 471 ha 2024 up 9.0% volatile
43 Fiji 464 ha 2024 up 22.4% volatile
43 Melanesia 464 ha 2024 up 22.4% volatile
45 Polynesia 365 ha 2024 up 19.7% falling
46 Guinea-Bissau 333 ha 2024 up 8.1% rising
47 Oman 308 ha 2024 up 5.8% volatile
48 Guyana 253 ha 2024 up 88.8% volatile
49 Maldives 239 ha 2024 up 54.2% volatile
49 Samoa 239 ha 2024 down 0.4% falling
51 Congo 229 ha 2024 up 3.6% rising
52 Argentina 202 ha 2024 up 8.6% rising
53 Israel 197 ha 2024 up 31.3% volatile
54 Saudi Arabia 141 ha 2024 rising
55 Chile 124 ha 2024 down 43.6% volatile
56 Timor-Leste 95 ha 2024 down 7.8% volatile
57 French Guiana 77 ha 2006 up 28.3% rising
58 Cook Islands 70 ha 2024 up 7.7% volatile
59 Trinidad and Tobago 62 ha 2024 down 37.4% volatile
60 Morocco 60 ha 2024 up 36.4% volatile
61 French Polynesia 56 ha 2024 down 21.1% falling
62 El Salvador 47 ha 2024 down 76.4% volatile
63 Bahamas 37 ha 2024 up 5.7% rising
64 Bhutan 30 ha 2024 up 500.0% volatile
65 Belize 29 ha 2024 down 88.1% volatile
66 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 28 ha 2024 down 6.7% volatile
67 Rwanda 15 ha 2024 down 93.4% volatile
68 Zimbabwe 13 ha 2024 up 8.3% rising
69 Honduras 11 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
70 Dominica 6 ha 2024 up 20.0% rising
71 Suriname 5 ha 2024 down 87.8% volatile
72 Cameroon 3 ha 2024 unchanged rising
73 Nauru 0 ha 2024 flat
73 Micronesia 0 ha 2024 flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Papayas — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
99 places, 4,983 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.