Peaches and nectarines — 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
Peaches and nectarines — Area harvested is currently reported for 88 countries. The highest value is 868,339 ha in China; the lowest is 13 ha in Switzerland.
The median across all reporting countries is 3,620 ha, and the mean is 28,943 ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 66,795.
Over the past decade 42 countries rose and 44 fell. The largest increase was in Afghanistan (up 306.4%), and the largest decrease in Poland (down 73.7%).
Peaches and nectarines — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 868,339 ha | 2024 | up 19.2% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 866,508 ha | 2024 | up 19.3% | volatile |
| 2 | Türkiye | 58,024 ha | 2024 | up 31.7% | volatile |
| 3 | USSR | 108,000 ha | 1991 | down 6.1% | rising |
| 3 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 32,139 ha | 2024 | down 56.0% | volatile |
| 4 | Spain | 68,140 ha | 2024 | down 20.9% | rising |
| 4 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 24,518 ha | 2024 | up 11.2% | volatile |
| 5 | Italy | 53,010 ha | 2024 | down 28.8% | falling |
| 6 | Greece | 33,740 ha | 2024 | down 10.9% | rising |
| 6 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 8,597 ha | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 7 | Mexico | 32,876 ha | 2024 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 7 | Syrian Arab Republic | 6,586 ha | 2024 | down 0.8% | rising |
| 8 | Uzbekistan | 21,946 ha | 2024 | up 14.5% | rising |
| 8 | Republic of Moldova | 4,229 ha | 2024 | down 18.8% | volatile |
| 9 | Republic of Korea | 20,554 ha | 2024 | up 32.3% | rising |
| 9 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 3,263 ha | 2024 | up 40.6% | volatile |
| 10 | India | 16,686 ha | 2024 | down 7.3% | rising |
| 11 | Algeria | 16,166 ha | 2024 | down 16.8% | volatile |
| 12 | Morocco | 15,449 ha | 2024 | up 123.7% | volatile |
| 13 | Brazil | 15,395 ha | 2024 | down 15.4% | rising |
| 14 | Egypt | 14,714 ha | 2024 | down 42.6% | volatile |
| 15 | Pakistan | 14,694 ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | volatile |
| 16 | Chile | 14,312 ha | 2024 | down 21.1% | rising |
| 17 | Yugoslav SFR | 14,300 ha | 1991 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 18 | Tunisia | 13,814 ha | 2024 | down 7.7% | rising |
| 19 | Tajikistan | 12,298 ha | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 20 | France | 11,060 ha | 2024 | up 6.3% | falling |
| 21 | Australia and New Zealand | 10,892 ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 22 | Australia | 10,291 ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 23 | Argentina | 9,733 ha | 2024 | down 47.7% | falling |
| 24 | Afghanistan | 9,661 ha | 2024 | up 306.4% | volatile |
| 25 | Serbia and Montenegro | 9,283 ha | 2005 | up 6.7% | flat |
| 26 | Japan | 9,190 ha | 2024 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 27 | Czechoslovakia | 8,939 ha | 1992 | up 144.9% | rising |
| 28 | Azerbaijan | 8,312 ha | 2024 | up 141.9% | volatile |
| 29 | Georgia | 7,850 ha | 2024 | up 58.9% | volatile |
| 30 | Serbia | 7,334 ha | 2024 | down 8.5% | falling |
| 31 | South Africa | 7,312 ha | 2024 | down 24.9% | falling |
| 32 | Russian Federation | 5,822 ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | falling |
| 33 | Armenia | 5,282 ha | 2024 | up 15.3% | rising |
| 34 | Lebanon | 4,700 ha | 2024 | up 30.6% | volatile |
| 35 | Peru | 4,651 ha | 2024 | down 16.1% | rising |
| 36 | Jordan | 3,882 ha | 2024 | up 54.2% | volatile |
| 37 | Portugal | 3,750 ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | volatile |
| 38 | Madagascar | 3,659 ha | 2024 | up 4.5% | rising |
| 39 | Hungary | 3,580 ha | 2024 | down 37.3% | falling |
| 40 | Guatemala | 3,195 ha | 2024 | down 0.6% | falling |
| 41 | Yemen | 3,179 ha | 2024 | up 12.2% | volatile |
| 42 | Kyrgyzstan | 2,441 ha | 2024 | down 6.1% | volatile |
| 43 | Bulgaria | 2,320 ha | 2024 | down 26.1% | falling |
| 44 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2,181 ha | 2024 | up 158.7% | rising |
| 45 | Canada | 2,144 ha | 2024 | down 24.5% | falling |
| 46 | Turkmenistan | 2,063 ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | falling |
| 47 | Saudi Arabia | 1,932 ha | 2024 | — | rising |
| 48 | Colombia | 1,898 ha | 2024 | down 4.9% | rising |
| 49 | China, Taiwan Province of | 1,831 ha | 2024 | down 19.9% | rising |
| 50 | Libya | 1,814 ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 51 | Israel | 1,749 ha | 2024 | down 50.2% | volatile |
| 52 | Malawi | 1,683 ha | 2024 | up 20.2% | rising |
| 53 | Nepal | 1,466 ha | 2024 | down 23.7% | rising |
| 54 | Albania | 1,417 ha | 2024 | up 33.2% | rising |
| 55 | Ukraine | 1,400 ha | 2024 | down 62.2% | volatile |
| 56 | Ecuador | 1,354 ha | 2024 | down 1.5% | volatile |
| 57 | Romania | 1,310 ha | 2024 | down 27.1% | volatile |
| 58 | North Macedonia | 1,074 ha | 2024 | down 29.8% | rising |
| 59 | Uruguay | 1,024 ha | 2024 | down 36.2% | falling |
| 60 | Croatia | 720 ha | 2024 | down 41.5% | falling |
| 61 | Poland | 700 ha | 2024 | down 73.7% | volatile |
| 62 | Kazakhstan | 668 ha | 2024 | up 137.7% | volatile |
| 63 | Iraq | 642 ha | 2024 | up 52.9% | volatile |
| 64 | New Zealand | 601 ha | 2024 | down 26.9% | volatile |
| 65 | Cyprus | 380 ha | 2024 | down 14.4% | rising |
| 66 | Zimbabwe | 356 ha | 2024 | up 40.2% | volatile |
| 67 | Slovakia | 270 ha | 2024 | down 36.6% | falling |
| 68 | Palestine | 235 ha | 2022 | down 36.3% | rising |
| 69 | Slovenia | 210 ha | 2024 | down 41.3% | falling |
| 70 | Paraguay | 205 ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | falling |
| 71 | Czechia | 190 ha | 2024 | down 67.5% | volatile |
| 72 | Austria | 180 ha | 2024 | up 5.3% | volatile |
| 73 | Cameroon | 159 ha | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 74 | Germany | 110 ha | 2024 | up 31.0% | volatile |
| 75 | Kenya | 100 ha | 2024 | up 44.9% | falling |
| 76 | Bhutan | 91 ha | 2024 | down 51.3% | volatile |
| 77 | Montenegro | 62 ha | 2024 | down 38.0% | falling |
| 78 | Réunion | 59 ha | 2006 | down 7.8% | rising |
| 79 | Malta | 50 ha | 2017 | unchanged | flat |
| 80 | Ethiopia | 28 ha | 2024 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 81 | Switzerland | 13 ha | 2024 | up 8.3% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 1.56 million ha
- Asia 1.14 million ha
- Eastern Asia 922,601 ha
- Europe 202,821 ha
- European Union (27) 179,670 ha
- Southern Europe 171,637 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 19,677 ha
- Americas 135,393 ha
- Western Asia 102,710 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 90,335 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 88,081 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 80,399 ha
- Middle Africa 159 ha
- Africa 75,254 ha
- Southern Asia 74,737 ha
- Northern Africa 61,957 ha
- South America 60,432 ha
- Central Asia 39,416 ha
- Northern America 38,890 ha
- United States of America 36,746 ha
- Central America 36,071 ha
- Eastern Europe 19,821 ha
- Western Europe 11,363 ha
- Oceania 10,892 ha
- Southern Africa 7,312 ha
- Eastern Africa 5,826 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.