Plums and sloes — 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
95
Highest
2.00 million ha
China
Lowest
0 ha
Finland
Median
2,520 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
6,035

What the numbers show

Plums and sloes — Area harvested is currently reported for 95 countries. The highest value is 2.00 million ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Finland.

The median across all reporting countries is 2,520 ha, and the mean is 54,691 ha.

Over the past decade 47 countries rose and 46 fell. The largest increase was in Montenegro (up 588.2%), and the largest decrease in Estonia (down 94.6%).

Plums and sloes — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 2.00 million ha 2024 up 7.6% volatile
2 China, mainland 1.99 million ha 2024 up 7.7% volatile
3 USSR 260,000 ha 1991 down 7.5% rising
4 Yugoslav SFR 172,500 ha 1991 down 1.4% flat
5 Serbia and Montenegro 136,060 ha 2005 up 8.8% falling
6 Serbia 74,082 ha 2024 down 5.0% falling
7 Romania 66,840 ha 2024 up 0.4% falling
8 Russian Federation 43,210 ha 2024 up 25.2% falling
9 Bosnia and Herzegovina 36,703 ha 2024 up 141.9% rising
10 Türkiye 21,586 ha 2024 up 7.8% rising
11 Czechoslovakia 18,500 ha 1992 down 3.1% flat
12 Argentina 18,170 ha 2024 down 29.2% rising
13 India 18,050 ha 2024 down 21.5% volatile
14 Poland 17,600 ha 2024 up 6.4% falling
15 Chile 17,564 ha 2024 up 0.9% volatile
16 Republic of Moldova 17,109 ha 2024 up 10.9% flat
17 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 17,094 ha 2024 down 58.0% volatile
18 Morocco 16,463 ha 2024 up 11.1% rising
19 Ukraine 16,400 ha 2024 down 11.8% volatile
20 Uzbekistan 16,145 ha 2024 up 26.7% flat
21 France 15,330 ha 2024 down 4.5% falling
22 Spain 12,640 ha 2024 down 25.7% rising
23 Italy 11,290 ha 2024 down 17.0% falling
24 Algeria 10,949 ha 2024 down 33.3% volatile
25 Mexico 10,910 ha 2024 down 26.3% rising
26 Tajikistan 10,766 ha 2024 up 29.7% rising
27 Libya 10,654 ha 2024 up 10.7% rising
28 Bulgaria 9,580 ha 2024 up 96.5% volatile
29 Georgia 9,328 ha 2024 up 124.2% volatile
30 North Macedonia 9,261 ha 2024 up 23.6% rising
31 Belarus 7,749 ha 2024 down 2.5% falling
32 Republic of Korea 7,103 ha 2024 up 25.5% volatile
33 Hungary 6,860 ha 2024 down 6.8% volatile
34 Pakistan 5,761 ha 2024 down 17.9% rising
35 Afghanistan 5,626 ha 2024 up 16.6% falling
36 Azerbaijan 4,954 ha 2024 up 27.8% rising
37 Germany 4,770 ha 2024 up 23.8% volatile
38 Australia and New Zealand 4,218 ha 2024 up 19.3% rising
39 Montenegro 4,074 ha 2024 up 588.2% rising
40 Syrian Arab Republic 4,069 ha 2024 up 2.7% rising
41 Croatia 4,040 ha 2024 down 16.7% volatile
42 Australia 3,938 ha 2024 up 24.4% rising
43 Egypt 3,529 ha 2024 up 241.6% volatile
44 Tunisia 3,393 ha 2024 up 33.1% rising
45 Armenia 3,068 ha 2024 up 43.2% rising
46 Yemen 3,028 ha 2021 volatile
47 Albania 2,559 ha 2024 up 12.6% falling
48 Japan 2,520 ha 2024 down 13.1% volatile
49 Lebanon 2,200 ha 2024 down 9.2% volatile
50 Czechia 1,920 ha 2024 up 0.4% falling
50 Greece 1,920 ha 2024 up 10.3% rising
52 Kyrgyzstan 1,910 ha 2024 down 4.5% rising
53 Turkmenistan 1,875 ha 2024 up 4.2% falling
54 Portugal 1,600 ha 2024 down 5.5% falling
55 Kazakhstan 1,523 ha 2024 up 55.9% volatile
56 Colombia 1,388 ha 2024 down 1.1% falling
57 Nepal 1,269 ha 2024 down 20.4% rising
58 Ecuador 1,143 ha 2024 down 7.4% volatile
59 Peru 1,134 ha 2024 down 33.4% rising
60 Belgium-Luxembourg 1,000 ha 1999 up 233.3% falling
61 Iraq 999 ha 2024 down 48.0% volatile
62 China, Taiwan Province of 964 ha 2024 down 39.9% volatile
63 Israel 647 ha 2024 down 55.1% rising
64 United Republic of Tanzania 630 ha 2024 up 4.3% volatile
65 Slovakia 610 ha 2024 up 17.3% volatile
66 Madagascar 484 ha 2024 up 6.1% volatile
67 Canada 435 ha 2024 down 27.9% volatile
68 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 419 ha 2024 up 5.3% volatile
69 Norway 400 ha 2024 down 7.0% volatile
70 Cyprus 390 ha 2024 down 24.4% rising
71 Lithuania 380 ha 2024 down 65.9% falling
72 Switzerland 321 ha 2024 down 3.9% volatile
72 Paraguay 321 ha 2024 up 10.3% falling
74 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 320 ha 2024 down 57.4% volatile
75 Jordan 293 ha 2024 down 47.5% volatile
76 New Zealand 280 ha 2024 down 24.7% flat
77 Eswatini 261 ha 2024 down 10.6% falling
78 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 250 ha 2024 up 1.2% volatile
79 Kenya 233 ha 2024 up 9.9% volatile
80 Austria 210 ha 2024 down 41.7% volatile
81 Uruguay 209 ha 2024 down 21.4% falling
82 Palestine 195 ha 2022 down 75.3% volatile
83 Cameroon 128 ha 2024 up 5.8% rising
84 Denmark 100 ha 2024 up 63.9% falling
84 Grenada 100 ha 2024 down 51.7% rising
84 Latvia 100 ha 2024 down 17.4% volatile
88 Zimbabwe 86 ha 2024 up 6.2% volatile
89 Slovenia 80 ha 2024 up 135.3% rising
90 Belgium 60 ha 2024 up 46.3% falling
91 Sweden 40 ha 2024 down 25.9% volatile
92 Bhutan 34 ha 2024 down 56.4% volatile
93 Luxembourg 30 ha 2024 down 18.9% volatile
94 Malawi 26 ha 2024 up 13.0% rising
95 Estonia 20 ha 2024 down 94.6% volatile
96 Finland 0 ha 2024 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
Plums and sloes — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
125 places, 6,035 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.