Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — 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
Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Area harvested is currently reported for 50 countries. The highest value is 312,902 ha in India; the lowest is 1 ha in French Polynesia.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,142 ha, and the mean is 17,539 ha.
Over the past decade 32 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Tajikistan (up 1,888.4%), and the largest decrease in Saint Lucia (down 98.7%).
Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 312,902 ha | 2024 | up 152.3% | rising |
| 2 | Indonesia | 163,629 ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | volatile |
| 3 | Viet Nam | 98,616 ha | 2024 | up 68.5% | volatile |
| 4 | Burkina Faso | 98,417 ha | 2024 | up 166.0% | rising |
| 5 | Sri Lanka | 48,875 ha | 2024 | up 23.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Brazil | 42,402 ha | 2024 | up 122.3% | volatile |
| 7 | China | 18,534 ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 8 | China, mainland | 18,402 ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 9 | Niger | 12,542 ha | 2024 | up 258.3% | volatile |
| 10 | Madagascar | 8,429 ha | 2024 | up 4.0% | falling |
| 11 | Malaysia | 8,289 ha | 2024 | down 48.3% | rising |
| 12 | Ethiopia | 7,274 ha | 2024 | up 7.8% | volatile |
| 13 | Iraq | 5,583 ha | 2024 | up 118.6% | rising |
| 14 | Ghana | 5,528 ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 15 | Mexico | 3,207 ha | 2024 | up 24.0% | volatile |
| 16 | Ecuador | 2,315 ha | 2024 | up 84.9% | rising |
| 17 | Brunei Darussalam | 1,766 ha | 2024 | up 20.4% | volatile |
| 18 | Zimbabwe | 1,748 ha | 2024 | down 29.5% | volatile |
| 19 | Tajikistan | 1,710 ha | 2024 | up 1,888.4% | volatile |
| 20 | Uganda | 1,689 ha | 2024 | down 10.9% | rising |
| 21 | Honduras | 1,590 ha | 2024 | up 31.5% | volatile |
| 22 | Philippines | 1,578 ha | 2024 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 23 | Melanesia | 1,521 ha | 2024 | down 4.2% | rising |
| 24 | Fiji | 1,520 ha | 2024 | down 4.2% | rising |
| 25 | Guatemala | 1,302 ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | rising |
| 26 | United Republic of Tanzania | 983 ha | 2024 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 27 | Guyana | 804 ha | 2024 | down 12.9% | rising |
| 28 | Rwanda | 782 ha | 2024 | up 17.4% | rising |
| 29 | Kenya | 758 ha | 2024 | up 144.5% | rising |
| 30 | Benin | 631 ha | 2024 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 31 | Malawi | 463 ha | 2024 | down 79.2% | volatile |
| 32 | Côte d'Ivoire | 407 ha | 2024 | down 12.5% | falling |
| 33 | Costa Rica | 388 ha | 2024 | up 94.0% | volatile |
| 34 | Cambodia | 373 ha | 2024 | down 2.4% | falling |
| 35 | Namibia | 330 ha | 2024 | up 135.7% | rising |
| 36 | Uzbekistan | 325 ha | 2024 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 37 | Ethiopia PDR | 300 ha | 1992 | up 50.0% | volatile |
| 38 | Cameroon | 284 ha | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 39 | Kyrgyzstan | 181 ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 40 | China, Macao SAR | 132 ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 41 | Peru | 128 ha | 2024 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 42 | Thailand | 92 ha | 2024 | down 77.7% | volatile |
| 43 | Zambia | 74 ha | 2024 | down 22.1% | falling |
| 44 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 35 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 45 | Caribbean | 34 ha | 2024 | down 85.5% | volatile |
| 46 | Grenada | 31 ha | 2024 | down 80.4% | falling |
| 47 | Polynesia | 20 ha | 2024 | up 17.6% | rising |
| 48 | Samoa | 18 ha | 2024 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 49 | Saint Lucia | 3 ha | 2024 | down 98.7% | volatile |
| 50 | French Polynesia | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 857,754 ha
- Asia 663,670 ha
- Southern Asia 361,777 ha
- South-eastern Asia 274,344 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 185,013 ha
- Africa 140,338 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 136,216 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 131,656 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 125,240 ha
- Western Africa 117,524 ha
- Americas 52,205 ha
- South America 45,684 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.