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
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.

About this data

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.