Sorghum — 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
Sorghum — Area harvested is currently reported for 131 countries. The highest value is 8.53 million ha in Sudan; the lowest is 0 ha in Netherlands (Kingdom of the).
The median across all reporting countries is 15,814 ha, and the mean is 390,692 ha.
Over the past decade 50 countries rose and 67 fell. The largest increase was in Republic of Moldova (up 4,248.3%), and the largest decrease in Costa Rica (down 100.0%).
Sorghum — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sudan | 8.53 million ha | 2024 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 2 | Sudan (former) | 7.26 million ha | 2011 | up 26.4% | volatile |
| 3 | Nigeria | 6.10 million ha | 2024 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 4 | India | 4.61 million ha | 2024 | down 20.3% | falling |
| 5 | Niger | 3.43 million ha | 2024 | down 4.0% | volatile |
| 6 | Burkina Faso | 1.90 million ha | 2024 | up 22.7% | rising |
| 7 | Mali | 1.69 million ha | 2024 | up 40.6% | volatile |
| 8 | Ethiopia | 1.65 million ha | 2024 | down 10.1% | rising |
| 9 | Brazil | 1.36 million ha | 2024 | up 62.3% | volatile |
| 10 | Mexico | 1.29 million ha | 2024 | down 36.1% | rising |
| 11 | South Sudan | 1.02 million ha | 2024 | up 40.6% | rising |
| 12 | Chad | 1.01 million ha | 2024 | down 8.2% | rising |
| 13 | Australia | 774,646 ha | 2024 | up 45.6% | rising |
| 13 | Australia and New Zealand | 774,646 ha | 2024 | up 45.6% | rising |
| 15 | United Republic of Tanzania | 750,000 ha | 2024 | down 11.9% | rising |
| 16 | Cameroon | 740,000 ha | 2024 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 17 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 648,842 ha | 2024 | up 135.1% | volatile |
| 18 | China | 645,496 ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | volatile |
| 19 | China, mainland | 643,496 ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | volatile |
| 20 | Argentina | 626,182 ha | 2024 | down 20.5% | volatile |
| 21 | Ethiopia PDR | 461,270 ha | 1992 | down 45.4% | falling |
| 22 | Ghana | 380,192 ha | 2024 | up 67.5% | rising |
| 23 | Yemen | 333,017 ha | 2024 | down 20.1% | falling |
| 24 | Togo | 320,000 ha | 2024 | down 1.2% | volatile |
| 24 | Uganda | 320,000 ha | 2024 | down 14.2% | rising |
| 26 | Eritrea | 270,000 ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 27 | Senegal | 260,000 ha | 2024 | up 107.9% | rising |
| 28 | Kenya | 250,432 ha | 2024 | up 17.3% | rising |
| 29 | Somalia | 250,000 ha | 2024 | down 8.8% | falling |
| 30 | Mauritania | 240,000 ha | 2024 | up 78.0% | rising |
| 31 | Mozambique | 239,352 ha | 2024 | down 18.9% | rising |
| 32 | Benin | 212,347 ha | 2024 | up 109.2% | rising |
| 33 | Zimbabwe | 175,839 ha | 2024 | down 22.2% | rising |
| 34 | Myanmar | 173,862 ha | 2024 | down 26.1% | falling |
| 35 | Angola | 155,771 ha | 2024 | down 21.7% | rising |
| 36 | Rwanda | 154,724 ha | 2024 | up 12.8% | rising |
| 37 | Egypt | 150,000 ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 38 | France | 100,480 ha | 2024 | up 59.8% | rising |
| 39 | Côte d'Ivoire | 100,000 ha | 2024 | up 32.1% | rising |
| 40 | Malawi | 96,872 ha | 2024 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 41 | USSR | 86,000 ha | 1991 | down 6.5% | rising |
| 42 | Russian Federation | 85,510 ha | 2024 | down 42.8% | volatile |
| 43 | El Salvador | 61,369 ha | 2024 | down 24.8% | falling |
| 44 | Saudi Arabia | 60,475 ha | 2024 | down 4.2% | volatile |
| 45 | Sierra Leone | 60,000 ha | 2024 | up 87.9% | volatile |
| 46 | Burundi | 49,750 ha | 2024 | up 54.2% | rising |
| 47 | Pakistan | 45,563 ha | 2024 | down 76.6% | falling |
| 48 | Guinea | 45,000 ha | 2024 | up 26.1% | rising |
| 49 | Italy | 43,280 ha | 2024 | down 16.1% | volatile |
| 50 | Hungary | 41,380 ha | 2024 | up 803.5% | volatile |
| 51 | Guatemala | 30,295 ha | 2024 | up 8.6% | falling |
| 52 | Namibia | 28,421 ha | 2024 | down 22.0% | rising |
| 53 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 27,537 ha | 2024 | up 6.6% | flat |
| 54 | Caribbean | 27,095 ha | 2024 | down 84.0% | falling |
| 55 | Thailand | 27,000 ha | 2024 | up 13.7% | volatile |
| 56 | Guinea-Bissau | 25,000 ha | 2024 | up 75.5% | volatile |
| 57 | Haiti | 24,463 ha | 2024 | down 85.1% | falling |
| 58 | Botswana | 22,646 ha | 2024 | down 54.9% | volatile |
| 59 | Albania | 22,362 ha | 1992 | down 10.6% | rising |
| 60 | Uruguay | 19,945 ha | 2024 | down 73.5% | volatile |
| 61 | Kazakhstan | 19,334 ha | 2024 | up 1,332.2% | volatile |
| 62 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 18,695 ha | 2024 | down 69.8% | volatile |
| 63 | Paraguay | 18,617 ha | 2024 | down 25.5% | volatile |
| 64 | Ukraine | 17,900 ha | 2024 | down 78.5% | volatile |
| 65 | Nicaragua | 17,730 ha | 2023 | down 67.5% | falling |
| 66 | Lesotho | 15,814 ha | 2024 | down 27.2% | volatile |
| 67 | Honduras | 13,785 ha | 2024 | down 60.6% | falling |
| 68 | Romania | 13,030 ha | 2024 | down 24.3% | volatile |
| 69 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 13,000 ha | 2024 | up 68.1% | volatile |
| 70 | Belize | 8,494 ha | 2024 | up 120.2% | volatile |
| 71 | Ecuador | 8,373 ha | 2024 | up 3.7% | volatile |
| 72 | Slovakia | 7,550 ha | 2024 | up 439.3% | volatile |
| 73 | Gambia | 7,251 ha | 2024 | down 73.4% | volatile |
| 74 | Spain | 6,500 ha | 2024 | down 10.8% | volatile |
| 75 | Republic of Moldova | 6,305 ha | 2024 | up 4,248.3% | volatile |
| 76 | Bulgaria | 5,950 ha | 2024 | down 11.3% | volatile |
| 77 | Austria | 5,500 ha | 2024 | up 96.8% | rising |
| 78 | Uzbekistan | 4,771 ha | 2024 | down 4.2% | falling |
| 79 | Zambia | 4,524 ha | 2024 | down 67.8% | volatile |
| 80 | Colombia | 3,820 ha | 2024 | down 39.5% | volatile |
| 81 | Yugoslav SFR | 3,814 ha | 1991 | down 23.7% | falling |
| 82 | Syrian Arab Republic | 3,582 ha | 2024 | up 399.6% | volatile |
| 83 | Oman | 3,444 ha | 2024 | up 113.0% | volatile |
| 84 | Iraq | 3,437 ha | 2024 | down 83.9% | volatile |
| 85 | Serbia and Montenegro | 3,066 ha | 2005 | up 31.2% | rising |
| 86 | Serbia | 2,624 ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 87 | Madagascar | 2,447 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 88 | Cuba | 2,413 ha | 2024 | down 42.0% | volatile |
| 89 | Israel | 2,355 ha | 2024 | down 5.8% | volatile |
| 90 | Tunisia | 2,351 ha | 2024 | down 2.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Morocco | 2,258 ha | 2024 | down 53.0% | volatile |
| 92 | China, Taiwan Province of | 2,000 ha | 2024 | down 1.9% | volatile |
| 93 | Greece | 1,750 ha | 2024 | up 856.3% | volatile |
| 94 | Republic of Korea | 1,632 ha | 2024 | up 2.8% | volatile |
| 95 | Melanesia | 1,136 ha | 2024 | down 14.7% | rising |
| 96 | Papua New Guinea | 1,129 ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 97 | Eswatini | 1,000 ha | 2024 | down 31.0% | volatile |
| 98 | Panama | 376 ha | 2024 | down 72.2% | volatile |
| 99 | Lebanon | 299 ha | 2024 | up 30.0% | volatile |
| 100 | Dominican Republic | 219 ha | 2024 | down 82.3% | volatile |
| 101 | Algeria | 178 ha | 2024 | up 137.3% | volatile |
| 102 | Czechoslovakia | 152 ha | 1992 | down 41.3% | volatile |
| 103 | Kyrgyzstan | 151 ha | 2024 | up 1,061.5% | volatile |
| 104 | Palestine | 109 ha | 2022 | down 47.1% | rising |
| 105 | Sri Lanka | 83 ha | 2024 | down 13.5% | volatile |
| 106 | Jordan | 82 ha | 2024 | down 86.6% | volatile |
| 107 | Philippines | 72 ha | 2024 | down 44.6% | volatile |
| 108 | Peru | 60 ha | 2024 | down 36.8% | volatile |
| 108 | Slovenia | 60 ha | 2024 | down 25.0% | volatile |
| 110 | Azerbaijan | 49 ha | 2024 | up 19.5% | volatile |
| 111 | Bangladesh | 48 ha | 2024 | down 56.8% | volatile |
| 112 | Maldives | 43 ha | 2024 | down 2.3% | volatile |
| 113 | Croatia | 36 ha | 2017 | down 91.0% | volatile |
| 114 | North Macedonia | 29 ha | 2024 | down 9.4% | volatile |
| 115 | Tajikistan | 17 ha | 2024 | down 26.1% | volatile |
| 116 | Türkiye | 12 ha | 2024 | down 40.0% | volatile |
| 117 | Fiji | 7 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 117 | Micronesia | 7 ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 117 | Micronesia (Federated States of) | 7 ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 120 | Costa Rica | 0 ha | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 120 | Cyprus | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 120 | Estonia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 120 | Finland | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 120 | Ireland | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 120 | Japan | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 120 | Luxembourg | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 120 | Latvia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 120 | Malta | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 120 | New Caledonia | 0 ha | 2022 | — | volatile |
| 120 | Sweden | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 120 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 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 44.26 million ha
- Africa 30.75 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 24.18 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 23.98 million ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 23.29 million ha
- Western Africa 14.77 million ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 12.28 million ha
- Northern Africa 8.68 million ha
- Americas 6.43 million ha
- Asia 5.96 million ha
- Eastern Africa 5.23 million ha
- Southern Asia 4.66 million 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.