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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- World 935,777 ha
- Asia 853,646 ha
- Eastern Asia 759,670 ha
- South-eastern Asia 54,770 ha
- Europe 37,775 ha
- European Union (27) 35,390 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 34,735 ha
- Americas 28,486 ha
- Southern Asia 22,335 ha
- Northern America 21,207 ha
- United States of America 20,518 ha
- Southern Europe 19,434 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.