Sisal, raw — 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
Sisal, raw — Area harvested is currently reported for 26 countries. The highest value is 98,063 ha in Brazil; the lowest is 0 ha in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,312 ha, and the mean is 11,539 ha.
Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in United Republic of Tanzania (up 95.6%), and the largest decrease in Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (down 60.9%).
Sisal, raw — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | 98,063 ha | 2024 | down 37.4% | falling |
| 2 | United Republic of Tanzania | 81,035 ha | 2024 | up 95.6% | volatile |
| 3 | Kenya | 33,058 ha | 2024 | up 30.5% | falling |
| 4 | Caribbean | 24,349 ha | 2024 | down 6.1% | falling |
| 5 | Haiti | 22,075 ha | 2024 | down 6.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Madagascar | 13,899 ha | 2024 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 7 | Mexico | 7,350 ha | 2024 | up 4.5% | volatile |
| 8 | Morocco | 4,547 ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 9 | China | 2,652 ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 10 | China, mainland | 2,650 ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 11 | Guinea | 2,057 ha | 2024 | up 5.6% | rising |
| 12 | Mozambique | 1,950 ha | 2024 | down 9.5% | volatile |
| 13 | Cuba | 1,524 ha | 2024 | down 1.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Ethiopia PDR | 1,100 ha | 1992 | down 8.3% | falling |
| 15 | Ethiopia | 868 ha | 2024 | down 3.7% | falling |
| 16 | Malawi | 614 ha | 2024 | up 7.5% | falling |
| 17 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 607 ha | 2024 | down 60.9% | volatile |
| 18 | Jamaica | 576 ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | falling |
| 19 | Angola | 523 ha | 2024 | down 3.9% | volatile |
| 20 | Indonesia | 301 ha | 2024 | down 7.4% | volatile |
| 21 | Dominican Republic | 175 ha | 2024 | up 9.4% | volatile |
| 22 | Thailand | 40 ha | 2024 | down 4.8% | volatile |
| 23 | China, Taiwan Province of | 2 ha | 2024 | down 33.3% | volatile |
| 23 | Uganda | 2 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 25 | Comoros | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 25 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 275,146 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 164,730 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 156,779 ha
- Africa 141,784 ha
- Eastern Africa 131,427 ha
- Americas 130,369 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 124,244 ha
- South America 98,670 ha
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 24,349 ha
- Central America 7,350 ha
- Northern Africa 4,547 ha
- Asia 2,993 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.