Quinces — 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
Quinces — Area harvested is currently reported for 59 countries. The highest value is 32,832 ha in China, mainland; the lowest is 0 ha in France.
The median across all reporting countries is 328 ha, and the mean is 2,287 ha.
Over the past decade 38 countries rose and 20 fell. The largest increase was in Bosnia and Herzegovina (up 532.9%), and the largest decrease in Belarus (down 100.0%).
Quinces — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China, mainland | 32,832 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 1 | China | 32,832 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 3 | USSR | 17,228 ha | 1991 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 8,673 ha | 2024 | up 1.8% | volatile |
| 5 | Türkiye | 8,025 ha | 2024 | up 48.7% | falling |
| 6 | Azerbaijan | 4,365 ha | 2024 | up 29.6% | rising |
| 7 | Uzbekistan | 3,716 ha | 2024 | down 48.7% | rising |
| 8 | Argentina | 3,544 ha | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 9 | Morocco | 2,817 ha | 2024 | down 18.7% | rising |
| 10 | Yugoslav SFR | 2,260 ha | 1991 | up 13.0% | rising |
| 11 | Serbia | 2,081 ha | 2024 | up 25.4% | rising |
| 12 | Spain | 1,420 ha | 2017 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 13 | Algeria | 1,413 ha | 2024 | down 25.1% | volatile |
| 14 | Serbia and Montenegro | 1,365 ha | 2005 | down 24.2% | falling |
| 15 | Republic of Moldova | 1,036 ha | 2024 | up 31.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Belgium | 980 ha | 2017 | up 22.5% | rising |
| 17 | Lebanon | 902 ha | 1996 | up 50.3% | volatile |
| 18 | Romania | 883 ha | 2017 | down 6.9% | volatile |
| 19 | Portugal | 728 ha | 2017 | up 73.3% | volatile |
| 20 | Russian Federation | 560 ha | 2024 | up 12.0% | falling |
| 21 | Peru | 501 ha | 2024 | down 18.5% | falling |
| 22 | Ukraine | 500 ha | 2024 | down 37.5% | falling |
| 23 | Armenia | 469 ha | 2024 | up 31.7% | rising |
| 24 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 443 ha | 2024 | up 532.9% | volatile |
| 25 | Tunisia | 422 ha | 2024 | up 17.2% | rising |
| 26 | Lithuania | 419 ha | 2017 | up 249.2% | volatile |
| 27 | Greece | 413 ha | 2017 | up 154.9% | volatile |
| 28 | Syrian Arab Republic | 394 ha | 2024 | down 5.1% | volatile |
| 29 | Iraq | 331 ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | flat |
| 30 | Mexico | 328 ha | 2024 | down 49.1% | volatile |
| 31 | Kyrgyzstan | 322 ha | 2024 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 32 | Georgia | 287 ha | 2024 | up 91.3% | volatile |
| 33 | Chile | 285 ha | 2024 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 34 | Hungary | 283 ha | 2017 | up 157.3% | falling |
| 35 | Yemen | 267 ha | 2017 | up 12.2% | volatile |
| 36 | Latvia | 255 ha | 2017 | up 431.2% | volatile |
| 37 | Israel | 207 ha | 2024 | up 360.0% | volatile |
| 38 | Uruguay | 156 ha | 2024 | down 4.9% | volatile |
| 39 | North Macedonia | 127 ha | 2024 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 40 | Kazakhstan | 124 ha | 2024 | up 24.0% | volatile |
| 41 | Australia and New Zealand | 112 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 41 | New Zealand | 112 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | volatile |
| 43 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 97 ha | 1999 | up 61.7% | rising |
| 44 | Albania | 92 ha | 2024 | up 15.0% | volatile |
| 45 | Bulgaria | 90 ha | 2017 | down 27.4% | volatile |
| 46 | Italy | 65 ha | 2017 | down 8.5% | volatile |
| 47 | Brazil | 58 ha | 2024 | down 47.7% | volatile |
| 48 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 26 ha | 2024 | up 18.2% | volatile |
| 49 | Japan | 24 ha | 2024 | down 7.7% | falling |
| 50 | Croatia | 18 ha | 2017 | down 88.0% | falling |
| 51 | Cyprus | 17 ha | 2017 | up 41.7% | volatile |
| 52 | Australia | 15 ha | 1993 | up 50.0% | flat |
| 53 | Switzerland | 12 ha | 2024 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 53 | Slovenia | 12 ha | 1996 | — | volatile |
| 55 | Egypt | 7 ha | 2024 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 56 | Palestine | 4 ha | 2022 | down 83.3% | flat |
| 56 | Jordan | 4 ha | 2024 | down 20.0% | volatile |
| 58 | Belarus | 0 ha | 2016 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 58 | France | 0 ha | 2009 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 74,317 ha
- Asia 59,777 ha
- Eastern Asia 32,857 ha
- Western Asia 14,086 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 10,185 ha
- Southern Asia 8,673 ha
- European Union (27) 5,571 ha
- Americas 4,897 ha
- Europe 4,850 ha
- Africa 4,681 ha
- Northern Africa 4,659 ha
- South America 4,570 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.