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...

Countries reporting
50
Highest
312,902 ha
India
Lowest
1 ha
French Polynesia
Median
1,142 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,448

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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
3 Burkina Faso 98,417 ha 2024 up 166.0% rising
4 Sri Lanka 48,875 ha 2024 up 23.3% volatile
5 Brazil 42,402 ha 2024 up 122.3% volatile
5 Melanesia 1,521 ha 2024 down 4.2% rising
6 China 18,534 ha 2024 up 2.1% rising
6 United Republic of Tanzania 983 ha 2024 up 16.7% rising
7 China, mainland 18,402 ha 2024 up 2.1% rising
8 Niger 12,542 ha 2024 up 258.3% volatile
8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 35 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
9 Madagascar 8,429 ha 2024 up 4.0% falling
9 Polynesia 20 ha 2024 up 17.6% rising
10 Malaysia 8,289 ha 2024 down 48.3% rising
11 Ethiopia 7,274 ha 2024 up 7.8% volatile
12 Iraq 5,583 ha 2024 up 118.6% rising
13 Ghana 5,528 ha 2024 up 3.1% rising
14 Mexico 3,207 ha 2024 up 24.0% volatile
15 Ecuador 2,315 ha 2024 up 84.9% rising
16 Brunei Darussalam 1,766 ha 2024 up 20.4% volatile
17 Zimbabwe 1,748 ha 2024 down 29.5% volatile
17 Côte d'Ivoire 407 ha 2024 down 12.5% falling
18 Tajikistan 1,710 ha 2024 up 1,888.4% volatile
19 Uganda 1,689 ha 2024 down 10.9% rising
19 Caribbean 34 ha 2024 down 85.5% volatile
20 Honduras 1,590 ha 2024 up 31.5% volatile
21 Philippines 1,578 ha 2024 down 6.7% falling
22 Fiji 1,520 ha 2024 down 4.2% rising
23 Guatemala 1,302 ha 2024 down 7.0% rising
24 Guyana 804 ha 2024 down 12.9% rising
25 Rwanda 782 ha 2024 up 17.4% rising
26 Kenya 758 ha 2024 up 144.5% rising
27 Benin 631 ha 2024 up 6.9% rising
28 Malawi 463 ha 2024 down 79.2% volatile
29 Costa Rica 388 ha 2024 up 94.0% volatile
30 Cambodia 373 ha 2024 down 2.4% falling
31 Namibia 330 ha 2024 up 135.7% rising
32 Uzbekistan 325 ha 2024 up 8.3% rising
33 Ethiopia PDR 300 ha 1992 up 50.0% volatile
34 Cameroon 284 ha 2024 up 6.0% rising
35 Kyrgyzstan 181 ha 2024 up 6.5% rising
36 China, Macao SAR 132 ha 2024 up 1.5% rising
37 Peru 128 ha 2024 up 8.5% rising
38 Thailand 92 ha 2024 down 77.7% volatile
39 Zambia 74 ha 2024 down 22.1% falling
40 Grenada 31 ha 2024 down 80.4% falling
41 Samoa 18 ha 2024 up 5.9% rising
42 Saint Lucia 3 ha 2024 down 98.7% volatile
43 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.

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Indicator
Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
71 places, 3,448 data points, 1961–2024
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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.