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
74
Highest
736,735 ha
China
Lowest
0 ha
Polynesia
Median
474.5 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,078

What the numbers show

Spinach — Area harvested is currently reported for 74 countries. The highest value is 736,735 ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Polynesia.

The median across all reporting countries is 474.5 ha, and the mean is 22,400 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 French 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
3 Indonesia 43,680 ha 2024 down 3.6% volatile
4 Japan 18,355 ha 2024 down 13.4% falling
5 Türkiye 15,531 ha 2024 down 9.3% rising
6 Kenya 11,842 ha 2024 up 17.4% volatile
7 Malaysia 10,520 ha 2024 up 139.9% volatile
8 Bangladesh 9,860 ha 2024 up 21.8% volatile
9 Pakistan 7,391 ha 2024 down 14.4% volatile
10 Greece 6,630 ha 2024 up 69.9% rising
11 Italy 5,630 ha 2024 down 14.4% falling
12 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5,084 ha 2024 up 50.0% volatile
13 Spain 4,910 ha 2024 up 53.4% rising
14 France 4,800 ha 2024 down 17.8% flat
15 Republic of Korea 4,580 ha 2024 down 18.9% rising
16 Germany 3,460 ha 2024 up 11.5% falling
17 Belgium 3,280 ha 2024 down 23.7% rising
18 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 2,670 ha 2024 up 21.9% rising
19 Mexico 2,660 ha 2024 up 33.5% volatile
20 Belgium-Luxembourg 2,060 ha 1999 up 47.1% volatile
21 Egypt 1,731 ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
22 Albania 1,718 ha 2024 up 37.0% volatile
23 Peru 1,597 ha 2024 down 6.6% volatile
24 Australia and New Zealand 1,511 ha 2024 down 19.1% volatile
25 Chile 1,153 ha 2024 up 70.8% rising
26 Australia 1,061 ha 2024 down 27.7% volatile
27 Czechoslovakia 1,032 ha 1992 down 15.5% rising
28 Caribbean 968 ha 2024 down 0.4% volatile
29 Jamaica 880 ha 2024 down 2.1% volatile
30 Switzerland 701 ha 2024 down 31.3% rising
31 Canada 689 ha 2024 down 8.4% rising
32 Hungary 630 ha 2024 up 53.7% volatile
33 Tunisia 616 ha 2024 down 3.8% volatile
34 Austria 610 ha 2024 up 26.8% rising
35 Czechia 600 ha 2024 up 180.4% falling
36 Poland 500 ha 2024 down 51.5% falling
37 Colombia 489 ha 2024 up 60.9% volatile
38 Portugal 460 ha 2024 down 36.4% volatile
39 Iraq 457 ha 2024 down 60.6% falling
40 China, Hong Kong SAR 455 ha 2024 down 6.0% falling
41 New Zealand 449 ha 2024 up 12.5% volatile
42 Slovakia 420 ha 2024 up 114.3% falling
43 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 400 ha 2024 up 12.4% rising
44 Jordan 273 ha 2024 up 658.3% volatile
45 Philippines 248 ha 2024 down 15.1% rising
46 Palestine 234 ha 2022 up 7.8% rising
47 Brunei Darussalam 215 ha 2024 up 8.0% rising
48 Ireland 170 ha 2024 down 39.7% falling
49 Denmark 150 ha 2024 up 257.1% volatile
50 Lebanon 133 ha 2024 down 42.2% volatile
51 Israel 129 ha 2024 up 975.0% volatile
52 Congo 113 ha 2024 down 5.8% rising
53 Singapore 106 ha 2024 up 3.9% rising
54 Bulgaria 100 ha 2024 down 18.7% volatile
55 United Arab Emirates 90 ha 2024 up 5.9% volatile
55 Romania 90 ha 2024 down 75.5% volatile
57 Cyprus 80 ha 2024 down 11.1% rising
58 Haiti 78 ha 2024 up 6.8% rising
59 Finland 60 ha 2024 up 17.6% rising
60 Botswana 57 ha 2024 up 375.0% rising
61 Sweden 50 ha 2024 down 61.5% volatile
62 Slovenia 30 ha 2024 up 50.0% falling
62 Ukraine 30 ha 2024 up 200.0% rising
64 Kuwait 19 ha 2024 down 26.9% volatile
65 Malta 17 ha 2017 down 26.1% rising
66 North Macedonia 16 ha 2024 up 77.8% rising
67 Costa Rica 12 ha 2024 unchanged rising
68 Antigua and Barbuda 10 ha 2024 volatile
68 Lithuania 10 ha 2024 down 56.5% volatile
68 Luxembourg 10 ha 2024 volatile
71 Qatar 4 ha 2024 down 88.9% volatile
72 Estonia 0 ha 2024 flat
72 French Polynesia 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
72 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.

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
Last refreshed

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.