Spinach — 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
73
Highest
736,735 ha
China
Lowest
0 ha
French Polynesia
Median
489 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,078

What the numbers show

Spinach — Area harvested is currently reported for 73 countries. The highest value is 736,735 ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in French Polynesia.

The median across all reporting countries is 489 ha, and the mean is 22,707 ha.

Over the past decade 32 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Israel (up 975.0%), and the largest decrease in Polynesia (down 100.0%).

Spinach — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 736,735 ha 2024 down 2.2% volatile
2 China, mainland 736,281 ha 2024 down 2.2% volatile
2 Türkiye 15,531 ha 2024 down 9.3% rising
3 Indonesia 43,680 ha 2024 down 3.6% volatile
4 Japan 18,355 ha 2024 down 13.4% falling
4 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5,084 ha 2024 up 50.0% volatile
5 Kenya 11,842 ha 2024 up 17.4% volatile
6 Malaysia 10,520 ha 2024 up 139.9% volatile
6 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 400 ha 2024 up 12.4% rising
7 Bangladesh 9,860 ha 2024 up 21.8% volatile
8 Pakistan 7,391 ha 2024 down 14.4% volatile
8 Polynesia 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
9 Greece 6,630 ha 2024 up 69.9% rising
10 Italy 5,630 ha 2024 down 14.4% falling
11 Spain 4,910 ha 2024 up 53.4% rising
12 France 4,800 ha 2024 down 17.8% flat
13 Republic of Korea 4,580 ha 2024 down 18.9% rising
14 Germany 3,460 ha 2024 up 11.5% falling
15 Belgium 3,280 ha 2024 down 23.7% rising
16 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 2,670 ha 2024 up 21.9% rising
17 Mexico 2,660 ha 2024 up 33.5% volatile
18 Belgium-Luxembourg 2,060 ha 1999 up 47.1% volatile
19 Egypt 1,731 ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
20 Albania 1,718 ha 2024 up 37.0% volatile
21 Peru 1,597 ha 2024 down 6.6% volatile
22 Australia and New Zealand 1,511 ha 2024 down 19.1% volatile
22 Caribbean 968 ha 2024 down 0.4% volatile
23 Chile 1,153 ha 2024 up 70.8% rising
24 Australia 1,061 ha 2024 down 27.7% volatile
25 Czechoslovakia 1,032 ha 1992 down 15.5% rising
26 Jamaica 880 ha 2024 down 2.1% volatile
27 Switzerland 701 ha 2024 down 31.3% rising
28 Canada 689 ha 2024 down 8.4% rising
29 Hungary 630 ha 2024 up 53.7% volatile
30 Tunisia 616 ha 2024 down 3.8% volatile
31 Austria 610 ha 2024 up 26.8% rising
32 Czechia 600 ha 2024 up 180.4% falling
33 Poland 500 ha 2024 down 51.5% falling
34 Colombia 489 ha 2024 up 60.9% volatile
35 Portugal 460 ha 2024 down 36.4% volatile
36 Iraq 457 ha 2024 down 60.6% falling
37 China, Hong Kong SAR 455 ha 2024 down 6.0% falling
38 New Zealand 449 ha 2024 up 12.5% volatile
39 Slovakia 420 ha 2024 up 114.3% falling
40 Jordan 273 ha 2024 up 658.3% volatile
41 Philippines 248 ha 2024 down 15.1% rising
42 Palestine 234 ha 2022 up 7.8% rising
43 Brunei Darussalam 215 ha 2024 up 8.0% rising
44 Ireland 170 ha 2024 down 39.7% falling
45 Denmark 150 ha 2024 up 257.1% volatile
46 Lebanon 133 ha 2024 down 42.2% volatile
47 Israel 129 ha 2024 up 975.0% volatile
48 Congo 113 ha 2024 down 5.8% rising
49 Singapore 106 ha 2024 up 3.9% rising
50 Bulgaria 100 ha 2024 down 18.7% volatile
51 United Arab Emirates 90 ha 2024 up 5.9% volatile
51 Romania 90 ha 2024 down 75.5% volatile
53 Cyprus 80 ha 2024 down 11.1% rising
54 Haiti 78 ha 2024 up 6.8% rising
55 Finland 60 ha 2024 up 17.6% rising
56 Botswana 57 ha 2024 up 375.0% rising
57 Sweden 50 ha 2024 down 61.5% volatile
58 Slovenia 30 ha 2024 up 50.0% falling
58 Ukraine 30 ha 2024 up 200.0% rising
60 Kuwait 19 ha 2024 down 26.9% volatile
61 Malta 17 ha 2017 down 26.1% rising
62 North Macedonia 16 ha 2024 up 77.8% rising
63 Costa Rica 12 ha 2024 unchanged rising
64 Antigua and Barbuda 10 ha 2024 — volatile
64 Lithuania 10 ha 2024 down 56.5% volatile
64 Luxembourg 10 ha 2024 — volatile
67 Qatar 4 ha 2024 down 88.9% volatile
68 French Polynesia 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% 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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About this data

Indicator
Spinach — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
102 places, 5,078 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.