Rye — 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
Rye — Area harvested is currently reported for 70 countries. The highest value is 8.58 million ha in USSR; the lowest is 0 ha in Malta.
The median across all reporting countries is 7,172 ha, and the mean is 177,332 ha.
Over the past decade 24 countries rose and 44 fell. The largest increase was in Kyrgyzstan (up 1,753.6%), and the largest decrease in Ireland (down 100.0%).
Rye — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 8.58 million ha | 1991 | up 13.3% | falling |
| 2 | Poland | 682,180 ha | 2024 | down 23.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Russian Federation | 580,000 ha | 2024 | down 68.8% | volatile |
| 4 | Germany | 535,600 ha | 2024 | down 15.0% | falling |
| 5 | Belarus | 340,000 ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | falling |
| 6 | China, mainland | 166,529 ha | 2024 | down 2.0% | volatile |
| 6 | China | 166,529 ha | 2024 | down 2.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Argentina | 118,002 ha | 2024 | up 269.2% | volatile |
| 9 | Canada | 117,000 ha | 2024 | up 32.7% | falling |
| 10 | Denmark | 112,000 ha | 2024 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 11 | Spain | 97,260 ha | 2024 | down 42.9% | falling |
| 12 | Türkiye | 90,329 ha | 2024 | down 20.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Czechoslovakia | 89,142 ha | 1992 | down 49.5% | falling |
| 14 | Iraq | 74,397 ha | 2024 | down 5.8% | rising |
| 15 | Ukraine | 69,700 ha | 2024 | down 62.3% | volatile |
| 16 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 52,855 ha | 2024 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 17 | Egypt | 47,869 ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | volatile |
| 18 | Australia and New Zealand | 41,335 ha | 2024 | down 8.2% | rising |
| 18 | Australia | 41,335 ha | 2024 | down 8.2% | rising |
| 20 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 36,840 ha | 2024 | up 272.9% | volatile |
| 21 | Yugoslav SFR | 34,797 ha | 1991 | down 35.6% | volatile |
| 22 | Latvia | 34,600 ha | 2024 | up 8.1% | volatile |
| 23 | Austria | 32,150 ha | 2024 | down 33.4% | volatile |
| 24 | France | 29,320 ha | 2024 | up 12.0% | volatile |
| 25 | Sweden | 27,480 ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 26 | Lithuania | 25,430 ha | 2024 | down 32.9% | volatile |
| 27 | Czechia | 24,300 ha | 2024 | down 3.3% | falling |
| 28 | Hungary | 22,630 ha | 2024 | down 32.6% | volatile |
| 29 | Kazakhstan | 20,444 ha | 2024 | down 53.2% | volatile |
| 30 | Estonia | 18,240 ha | 2024 | up 18.4% | volatile |
| 31 | Finland | 15,910 ha | 2024 | down 32.9% | volatile |
| 32 | Portugal | 12,740 ha | 2024 | down 35.6% | volatile |
| 33 | Romania | 11,120 ha | 2024 | up 9.5% | volatile |
| 34 | Slovakia | 7,590 ha | 2024 | down 48.0% | falling |
| 35 | Serbia and Montenegro | 7,285 ha | 2005 | down 27.1% | falling |
| 36 | Greece | 7,060 ha | 2024 | down 54.1% | rising |
| 37 | Bulgaria | 6,440 ha | 2024 | down 55.4% | volatile |
| 38 | Norway | 5,730 ha | 2024 | down 6.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Serbia | 4,610 ha | 2024 | down 19.1% | falling |
| 40 | Morocco | 3,705 ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | falling |
| 41 | Italy | 3,690 ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | volatile |
| 42 | Brazil | 3,360 ha | 2024 | up 9.0% | volatile |
| 43 | North Macedonia | 3,189 ha | 2024 | down 23.5% | falling |
| 44 | Switzerland | 1,970 ha | 2024 | up 3.7% | volatile |
| 45 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,606 ha | 2024 | down 55.0% | falling |
| 46 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 1,600 ha | 1999 | down 46.7% | volatile |
| 47 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1,490 ha | 2024 | down 13.4% | volatile |
| 48 | Luxembourg | 1,320 ha | 2024 | up 52.4% | rising |
| 49 | Albania | 1,170 ha | 2024 | down 14.9% | volatile |
| 50 | Slovenia | 1,080 ha | 2024 | down 34.1% | falling |
| 51 | Chile | 947 ha | 2024 | up 15.8% | volatile |
| 52 | Belgium | 840 ha | 2024 | up 110.0% | rising |
| 53 | Croatia | 690 ha | 2024 | down 49.7% | falling |
| 54 | Republic of Moldova | 562 ha | 2024 | up 48.7% | volatile |
| 55 | Kyrgyzstan | 519 ha | 2024 | up 1,753.6% | volatile |
| 56 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 491 ha | 2024 | down 13.9% | volatile |
| 57 | Uzbekistan | 489 ha | 2024 | down 45.7% | volatile |
| 58 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 355 ha | 2024 | down 7.6% | volatile |
| 59 | Georgia | 163 ha | 2024 | up 8.7% | volatile |
| 60 | Armenia | 142 ha | 2024 | down 51.0% | volatile |
| 61 | Ecuador | 127 ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | volatile |
| 62 | Azerbaijan | 103 ha | 2024 | up 45.1% | volatile |
| 63 | Tajikistan | 97 ha | 2024 | up 3.2% | volatile |
| 64 | Montenegro | 88 ha | 2024 | down 51.9% | rising |
| 65 | Mexico | 44 ha | 2024 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 66 | Peru | 43 ha | 2024 | down 55.2% | volatile |
| 67 | Republic of Korea | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 68 | Ireland | 0 ha | 2024 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 68 | Japan | 0 ha | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 68 | Malta | 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.
- World 3.66 million ha
- Europe 2.76 million ha
- Eastern Europe 1.74 million ha
- European Union (27) 1.71 million ha
- Western Europe 602,690 ha
- Asia 406,560 ha
- Americas 402,567 ha
- Northern America 279,690 ha
- Northern Europe 276,230 ha
- Eastern Asia 219,385 ha
- Western Asia 165,135 ha
- United States of America 162,690 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.