Sour cherries — 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
Sour cherries — Area harvested is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 56,000 ha in USSR; the lowest is 0 ha in Malta.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,101 ha, and the mean is 7,326 ha.
Over the past decade 18 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Spain (up 140.0%), and the largest decrease in Chile (down 91.2%).
Sour cherries — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 56,000 ha | 1991 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 2 | Russian Federation | 39,777 ha | 2024 | up 10.5% | falling |
| 3 | Yugoslav SFR | 30,800 ha | 1991 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 28,920 ha | 2024 | up 45.0% | volatile |
| 5 | Serbia and Montenegro | 25,000 ha | 2005 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 6 | Poland | 24,900 ha | 2024 | down 22.4% | flat |
| 7 | Serbia | 19,878 ha | 2024 | up 42.1% | falling |
| 8 | Türkiye | 19,226 ha | 2024 | down 11.4% | rising |
| 9 | Ukraine | 18,400 ha | 2024 | down 6.6% | falling |
| 10 | Hungary | 11,750 ha | 2024 | down 13.5% | falling |
| 11 | Uzbekistan | 7,551 ha | 2024 | up 65.2% | volatile |
| 12 | Azerbaijan | 6,356 ha | 2024 | up 84.3% | rising |
| 13 | Belarus | 6,004 ha | 2024 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 14 | Republic of Moldova | 4,516 ha | 2024 | up 71.6% | rising |
| 15 | Czechoslovakia | 4,060 ha | 1992 | up 16.0% | rising |
| 16 | Albania | 3,223 ha | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 17 | Romania | 2,670 ha | 2024 | down 3.6% | flat |
| 18 | Croatia | 2,110 ha | 2024 | down 23.6% | rising |
| 19 | North Macedonia | 1,831 ha | 2024 | up 25.9% | rising |
| 20 | Germany | 1,530 ha | 2024 | down 29.5% | volatile |
| 21 | Czechia | 1,230 ha | 2024 | down 14.1% | falling |
| 22 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,202 ha | 2024 | up 40.3% | rising |
| 23 | Bulgaria | 1,000 ha | 2024 | up 4.4% | volatile |
| 24 | Armenia | 803 ha | 2024 | up 4.2% | rising |
| 25 | France | 760 ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | flat |
| 26 | Canada | 677 ha | 2024 | down 27.7% | falling |
| 27 | Lithuania | 510 ha | 2024 | down 32.0% | falling |
| 28 | Denmark | 440 ha | 2024 | down 54.7% | volatile |
| 29 | Peru | 202 ha | 2024 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 30 | Italy | 180 ha | 2024 | down 88.8% | volatile |
| 30 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 180 ha | 2024 | down 28.0% | falling |
| 32 | Belgium | 160 ha | 2024 | down 40.7% | falling |
| 33 | Spain | 120 ha | 2024 | up 140.0% | volatile |
| 34 | Greece | 110 ha | 2024 | down 44.4% | volatile |
| 35 | Portugal | 60 ha | 2024 | down 23.1% | volatile |
| 36 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 55 ha | 2024 | up 7.8% | volatile |
| 37 | Sweden | 40 ha | 2024 | down 81.4% | volatile |
| 37 | Slovakia | 40 ha | 2020 | down 76.6% | volatile |
| 39 | Kazakhstan | 36 ha | 2024 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 40 | Austria | 20 ha | 2024 | down 86.2% | volatile |
| 41 | Slovenia | 10 ha | 2024 | up 42.9% | volatile |
| 42 | Chile | 6 ha | 2024 | down 91.2% | volatile |
| 43 | Luxembourg | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 43 | 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 218,140 ha
- Europe 142,612 ha
- Eastern Europe 110,248 ha
- Asia 62,892 ha
- European Union (27) 47,780 ha
- Southern Asia 28,920 ha
- Southern Europe 28,724 ha
- Western Asia 26,385 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 21,147 ha
- Americas 12,636 ha
- Northern America 12,373 ha
- United States of America 11,696 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.