Seed cotton, unginned — 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
94
Highest
11.45 million ha
India
Lowest
0 ha
China, Taiwan Province of
Median
11,388 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
7,742

What the numbers show

Seed cotton, unginned — Area harvested is currently reported for 94 countries. The highest value is 11.45 million ha in India; the lowest is 0 ha in China, Taiwan Province of.

The median across all reporting countries is 11,388 ha, and the mean is 344,629 ha.

Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 53 fell. The largest increase was in Bulgaria (up 582.2%), and the largest decrease in Dominican Republic (down 100.0%).

Seed cotton, unginned — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 India 11.45 million ha 2024 down 12.5% rising
2 USSR 3.01 million ha 1991 down 4.9% rising
3 China (People's Republic of) 2.84 million ha 2024 down 32.8% falling
3 China, mainland 2.84 million ha 2024 down 32.8% falling
5 Pakistan 2.04 million ha 2024 down 31.0% rising
6 Brazil 1.99 million ha 2024 up 76.2% volatile
7 Uzbekistan 963,072 ha 2024 down 26.0% falling
8 Burkina Faso 651,844 ha 2024 up 0.1% volatile
9 Mali 623,042 ha 2024 up 15.5% volatile
10 Argentina 622,327 ha 2024 up 21.4% falling
11 Nigeria 588,813 ha 2024 up 47.7% rising
12 Turkmenistan 580,030 ha 2024 up 7.4% flat
13 Benin 535,579 ha 2024 up 32.1% volatile
14 Australia 473,900 ha 2024 up 21.5% volatile
14 Australia and New Zealand 473,900 ha 2024 up 21.5% volatile
16 Sudan 244,700 ha 2024 up 255.3% volatile
17 Greece 229,805 ha 2023 down 15.6% rising
18 Cameroon 229,000 ha 2024 up 1.8% rising
19 Myanmar 207,823 ha 2024 down 12.4% rising
20 Zimbabwe 154,698 ha 2024 up 18.4% volatile
21 Chad 136,000 ha 2024 down 47.7% falling
22 Tajikistan 123,037 ha 2024 down 30.7% falling
23 Mexico 118,469 ha 2024 down 35.5% volatile
24 Central African Republic 117,525 ha 2024 up 193.8% volatile
25 Kazakhstan 106,411 ha 2024 down 16.6% falling
26 Uganda 97,000 ha 2024 up 61.7% volatile
27 Mozambique 96,523 ha 2024 down 38.5% volatile
28 Afghanistan 91,205 ha 2024 up 160.6% falling
29 Azerbaijan 81,869 ha 2024 up 257.2% volatile
30 Egypt 81,499 ha 2024 down 47.4% volatile
31 Ethiopia 78,884 ha 2024 down 35.9% rising
32 Togo 76,000 ha 2024 down 41.5% volatile
33 Spain 51,823 ha 2022 down 25.6% volatile
34 Guinea 46,097 ha 2024 up 7.2% volatile
35 Sudan (former) 42,000 ha 2011 down 75.3% falling
36 Malawi 41,892 ha 2024 down 71.9% volatile
37 Ethiopia PDR 40,000 ha 1992 down 24.5% volatile
38 Somalia 18,571 ha 2024 up 3.2% rising
39 South Africa 18,385 ha 2024 up 146.5% volatile
40 Kenya 16,469 ha 2024 down 32.3% volatile
41 Senegal 15,992 ha 2024 down 50.4% volatile
42 Ghana 15,000 ha 2024 down 6.2% volatile
43 Bangladesh 14,724 ha 2024 down 14.8% rising
44 Madagascar 13,122 ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
45 Kyrgyzstan 12,899 ha 2024 down 44.7% falling
46 Paraguay 12,775 ha 2024 down 8.8% volatile
47 Colombia 12,020 ha 2024 down 64.1% volatile
48 Peru 10,756 ha 2024 down 65.8% volatile
49 Zambia 10,367 ha 2024 down 91.7% volatile
50 Israel 7,896 ha 2024 up 20.0% volatile
51 Angola 5,836 ha 2024 up 94.5% volatile
52 Guinea-Bissau 4,994 ha 2024 up 3.0% volatile
53 Yemen 4,112 ha 2024 down 71.4% falling
54 Tunisia 3,543 ha 2024 up 18.1% volatile
55 Niger 3,399 ha 2024 down 7.2% volatile
56 Ecuador 3,053 ha 2024 down 7.5% volatile
57 Eswatini 2,972 ha 2024 up 0.7% volatile
58 Thailand 2,039 ha 2024 up 1.9% volatile
59 Nicaragua 2,000 ha 2023 down 9.1% volatile
60 Honduras 1,992 ha 2024 up 24.5% volatile
61 Bulgaria 1,958 ha 2024 up 582.2% volatile
62 Haiti 1,930 ha 2024 down 5.4% volatile
63 Burundi 1,649 ha 2024 down 45.2% falling
64 Gambia 1,508 ha 2024 down 4.9% volatile
65 Guatemala 940 ha 2024 down 14.5% volatile
66 Costa Rica 914 ha 2024 up 7.5% volatile
67 Albania 724 ha 2024 down 2.2% volatile
68 Antigua and Barbuda 593 ha 2024 down 1.2% rising
69 Botswana 508 ha 2024 up 1.6% falling
70 Algeria 260 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
71 Indonesia 235 ha 2024 down 93.6% volatile
72 Cambodia 180 ha 2024 down 2.2% volatile
73 Nepal 129 ha 2024 down 0.8% volatile
74 Morocco 107 ha 2024 up 1.9% volatile
75 Grenada 71 ha 2024 down 52.7% volatile
76 Yugoslav SFR 48 ha 1991 down 95.4% volatile
77 Italy 47 ha 1990 down 98.4% volatile
78 Philippines 38 ha 2024 up 171.4% volatile
79 Saint Kitts and Nevis 10 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
79 Republic of Korea 10 ha 2013 up 150.0% volatile
81 Iraq 8 ha 2024 down 99.1% volatile
82 Cuba 0 ha 1992 volatile
82 Cyprus 0 ha 2017 volatile
82 Dominican Republic 0 ha 1995 down 100.0% volatile
82 Sri Lanka 0 ha 1996 down 100.0% volatile
82 North Macedonia 0 ha 1998 down 100.0% volatile
82 Namibia 0 ha 2014 down 100.0% volatile
82 Romania 0 ha 2002 down 100.0% volatile
82 Rwanda 0 ha 2013 volatile
82 El Salvador 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
82 Uruguay 0 ha 2004 volatile
82 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 ha 1971 down 100.0% volatile
82 Guadeloupe 0 ha 1992 volatile
82 China, Taiwan Province of 0 ha 2011 volatile

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
Seed cotton, unginned — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
134 places, 7,742 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.