String beans — 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
String beans — Area harvested is currently reported for 24 countries. The highest value is 31,688 ha in France; the lowest is 3 ha in Grenada.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,164 ha, and the mean is 4,601 ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10,563.
Over the past decade 8 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Morocco (up 49.3%), and the largest decrease in Grenada (down 92.3%).
String beans — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | 31,688 ha | 2017 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 2 | Philippines | 12,922 ha | 2024 | down 6.3% | rising |
| 3 | Mexico | 9,486 ha | 2024 | down 7.9% | rising |
| 4 | Peru | 8,799 ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Morocco | 8,397 ha | 2024 | up 49.3% | volatile |
| 6 | Argentina | 6,785 ha | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 7 | Poland | 6,367 ha | 2017 | down 13.1% | falling |
| 8 | Türkiye | 5,949 ha | 2024 | down 26.7% | rising |
| 9 | Malaysia | 5,556 ha | 2024 | — | rising |
| 10 | Japan | 4,267 ha | 2024 | down 26.7% | falling |
| 11 | Iraq | 3,588 ha | 2024 | down 65.9% | volatile |
| 12 | Côte d'Ivoire | 1,526 ha | 2024 | up 2.4% | rising |
| 13 | Caribbean | 801 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Malawi | 726 ha | 2024 | up 21.0% | flat |
| 15 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 711 ha | 2024 | up 11.4% | flat |
| 16 | China, Taiwan Province of | 679 ha | 2024 | down 17.8% | volatile |
| 16 | China | 679 ha | 2024 | down 17.8% | volatile |
| 18 | Jordan | 634 ha | 2024 | down 0.6% | falling |
| 19 | Jamaica | 607 ha | 2024 | down 1.3% | volatile |
| 20 | Barbados | 191 ha | 2024 | up 12.4% | volatile |
| 21 | Egypt | 45 ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 22 | Polynesia | 8 ha | 2024 | down 78.9% | volatile |
| 22 | French Polynesia | 8 ha | 2024 | down 78.9% | volatile |
| 24 | Grenada | 3 ha | 2024 | down 92.3% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 125,876 ha
- Americas 81,580 ha
- United States of America 54,997 ha
- Northern America 54,997 ha
- Europe 38,055 ha
- European Union (27) 38,055 ha
- Asia 33,595 ha
- Western Europe 31,688 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 21,638 ha
- South-eastern Asia 18,478 ha
- South America 16,295 ha
- Africa 10,694 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.