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...

Countries reporting
70
Highest
8.58 million ha
USSR
Lowest
0 ha
Malta
Median
7,172 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,865

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

About this data

Indicator
Rye — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
95 places, 4,865 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.