Pears — 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
94
Highest
978,380 ha
China
Lowest
1 ha
Malta
Median
2,337 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
6,037

What the numbers show

Pears — Area harvested is currently reported for 94 countries. The highest value is 978,380 ha in China; the lowest is 1 ha in Malta.

The median across all reporting countries is 2,337 ha, and the mean is 26,406 ha.

Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 61 fell. The largest increase was in Afghanistan (up 479.3%), and the largest decrease in Malta (down 87.5%).

Pears — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 978,380 ha 2024 down 12.6% volatile
2 China, mainland 973,085 ha 2024 down 12.6% volatile
3 USSR 120,000 ha 1991 down 23.1% falling
4 India 35,023 ha 2024 down 17.2% volatile
5 Yugoslav SFR 24,760 ha 1991 down 1.0% flat
6 Türkiye 22,258 ha 2024 down 9.1% falling
7 Italy 20,570 ha 2024 down 37.1% falling
8 Argentina 19,900 ha 2024 down 15.5% rising
9 Algeria 18,825 ha 2024 down 25.5% volatile
10 Spain 18,090 ha 2024 down 23.5% rising
11 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 14,024 ha 2024 down 1.0% rising
12 Ukraine 11,000 ha 2024 down 13.4% volatile
13 Japan 10,900 ha 2024 down 23.8% falling
14 Belgium 10,740 ha 2024 up 18.0% rising
15 Portugal 10,230 ha 2024 down 14.8% rising
16 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 10,040 ha 2024 up 16.7% volatile
17 Serbia and Montenegro 9,474 ha 2005 down 27.8% falling
18 Republic of Korea 9,421 ha 2024 down 28.2% volatile
19 Czechoslovakia 8,129 ha 1992 down 9.4% falling
20 Uzbekistan 7,925 ha 2024 up 20.1% flat
21 Russian Federation 7,897 ha 2024 down 15.1% falling
22 France 6,220 ha 2024 up 16.1% volatile
23 Bosnia and Herzegovina 6,192 ha 2024 up 287.0% volatile
24 Poland 5,900 ha 2024 down 41.1% falling
25 Egypt 5,734 ha 2024 up 43.5% rising
26 Azerbaijan 5,694 ha 2024 up 20.6% rising
27 Australia and New Zealand 5,393 ha 2024 down 8.9% falling
28 Belgium-Luxembourg 5,359 ha 1999 up 91.4% rising
29 China, Taiwan Province of 5,295 ha 2024 down 4.8% rising
30 Chile 5,126 ha 2024 down 29.8% volatile
31 Serbia 5,073 ha 2024 down 30.9% falling
32 Kyrgyzstan 5,054 ha 2024 down 0.9% volatile
33 Australia 5,023 ha 2024 down 7.3% falling
34 North Macedonia 4,301 ha 2024 up 82.6% volatile
35 Belarus 4,140 ha 2024 down 30.1% rising
36 Greece 4,040 ha 2024 up 19.0% falling
37 Syrian Arab Republic 3,690 ha 2024 down 8.3% rising
38 Afghanistan 3,661 ha 2024 up 479.3% volatile
39 Mexico 3,472 ha 2024 down 18.1% rising
40 Tunisia 3,304 ha 2024 down 52.1% volatile
41 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 3,273 ha 2024 down 81.1% volatile
42 Morocco 3,213 ha 2024 down 0.7% rising
43 Romania 3,200 ha 2024 down 7.6% falling
44 Nepal 2,902 ha 2024 down 15.8% rising
45 Armenia 2,583 ha 2024 down 1.6% falling
46 Hungary 2,400 ha 2024 down 17.0% volatile
47 Ecuador 2,371 ha 2024 up 5.4% rising
48 Lebanon 2,303 ha 2024 up 28.6% rising
49 Republic of Moldova 2,071 ha 2024 up 19.5% rising
50 Germany 2,070 ha 2024 up 7.8% volatile
51 Georgia 1,931 ha 2024 down 0.3% falling
52 Colombia 1,596 ha 2024 up 7.1% rising
53 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1,412 ha 2024 down 2.5% falling
54 Iraq 1,411 ha 2024 down 34.1% falling
55 Kazakhstan 1,408 ha 2024 down 39.2% falling
56 Pakistan 1,197 ha 2024 down 33.8% falling
57 Madagascar 1,014 ha 2024 up 3.8% volatile
58 Brazil 966 ha 2024 down 34.4% falling
59 Albania 840 ha 2024 up 29.2% rising
60 Czechia 790 ha 2024 down 10.3% volatile
61 Switzerland 733 ha 2024 down 3.7% rising
62 Canada 711 ha 2024 down 14.1% volatile
63 United Republic of Tanzania 692 ha 2024 up 6.6% volatile
64 Lithuania 690 ha 2024 down 41.2% volatile
65 Croatia 650 ha 2024 down 37.7% falling
66 Austria 610 ha 2024 up 38.6% rising
67 Uruguay 554 ha 2024 down 27.4% falling
68 Bulgaria 550 ha 2024 up 63.7% volatile
69 Zimbabwe 531 ha 2024 up 6.6% volatile
70 Israel 507 ha 2024 down 61.2% rising
71 Montenegro 376 ha 2024 up 117.3% rising
72 New Zealand 370 ha 2024 down 26.7% falling
72 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 370 ha 2024 up 2.5% falling
74 Peru 364 ha 2024 down 24.3% falling
75 Libya 300 ha 2024 down 1.0% rising
76 Denmark 270 ha 2024 down 25.8% volatile
77 Slovenia 210 ha 2024 up 1.4% falling
78 Jordan 202 ha 2024 down 39.7% volatile
79 Latvia 200 ha 2024 down 7.8% volatile
80 Kenya 166 ha 2024 down 45.8% volatile
81 Slovakia 120 ha 2024 down 6.2% volatile
81 Sweden 120 ha 2024 down 7.7% volatile
83 Bhutan 102 ha 2024 up 22.9% volatile
84 Norway 100 ha 2024 up 66.7% volatile
85 Yemen 94 ha 1994 up 67.9% volatile
86 Cyprus 80 ha 2024 down 3.6% volatile
87 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 55 ha 2024 up 71.9% falling
87 Caribbean 55 ha 2024 up 71.9% falling
89 Paraguay 33 ha 2024 unchanged flat
90 Finland 30 ha 2024 down 40.0% falling
91 Luxembourg 20 ha 2024 up 11.1% volatile
92 Palestine 16 ha 2022 down 52.9% flat
93 Djibouti 1 ha 2024 unchanged flat
93 Malta 1 ha 2017 down 87.5% falling

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
Pears — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
122 places, 6,037 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.