Sugar beet — 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
3.17 million ha
USSR
Lowest
0 ha
Estonia
Median
14,107 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,772

What the numbers show

Sugar beet — Area harvested is currently reported for 73 countries. The highest value is 3.17 million ha in USSR; the lowest is 0 ha in Estonia.

The median across all reporting countries is 14,107 ha, and the mean is 110,622 ha.

Over the past decade 28 countries rose and 36 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 2,418.6%), and the largest decrease in Algeria (down 100.0%).

Sugar beet — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 USSR 3.17 million ha 1991 down 12.5% falling
2 Russian Federation 985,329 ha 2024 up 8.8% rising
3 Germany 437,200 ha 2024 up 17.4% falling
4 France 411,630 ha 2024 up 1.1% falling
5 Türkiye 324,286 ha 2024 up 12.8% rising
6 Poland 277,920 ha 2024 up 40.6% falling
7 Egypt 264,840 ha 2024 up 25.0% volatile
8 Ukraine 253,600 ha 2024 down 23.2% volatile
9 China 217,570 ha 2024 up 56.8% volatile
9 China, mainland 217,570 ha 2024 up 56.8% volatile
11 Czechoslovakia 169,531 ha 1992 down 20.2% falling
12 Yugoslav SFR 142,555 ha 1991 down 3.2% rising
13 Belarus 106,000 ha 2024 up 2.1% rising
14 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 102,389 ha 2024 down 12.0% falling
15 Belgium-Luxembourg 101,191 ha 1999 down 4.4% rising
16 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 84,764 ha 2024 down 12.7% falling
17 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 84,480 ha 2024 up 12.5% falling
18 Czechia 65,910 ha 2024 up 4.7% falling
19 Serbia and Montenegro 64,326 ha 2005 up 4.1% falling
20 Belgium 58,330 ha 2024 down 0.5% falling
21 Japan 48,900 ha 2024 down 14.8% rising
22 Serbia 46,839 ha 2024 down 26.9% falling
23 Spain 45,690 ha 2024 up 18.9% volatile
24 Austria 43,000 ha 2024 down 15.0% falling
25 Denmark 34,900 ha 2024 down 8.2% falling
26 Italy 29,230 ha 2024 down 43.8% volatile
27 Sweden 28,430 ha 2024 down 17.4% falling
28 Kazakhstan 25,010 ha 2024 up 2,418.6% volatile
29 Slovakia 23,550 ha 2024 up 6.0% falling
30 Romania 22,920 ha 2024 down 26.7% volatile
31 Morocco 21,966 ha 2024 down 58.5% rising
32 Canada 18,300 ha 2024 up 125.9% falling
33 Turkmenistan 17,900 ha 2024 up 20.6% rising
34 Switzerland 16,774 ha 2024 down 20.3% rising
35 Hungary 16,130 ha 2024 up 4.6% volatile
36 Lithuania 16,030 ha 2024 down 5.7% falling
37 Republic of Moldova 14,107 ha 2024 down 48.1% volatile
38 Finland 14,000 ha 2024 up 2.2% falling
39 Kyrgyzstan 13,484 ha 2024 up 85.4% volatile
40 Chile 8,999 ha 2024 down 50.9% volatile
41 Croatia 8,960 ha 2024 down 59.1% falling
42 Iraq 8,448 ha 2024 up 59.5% volatile
43 Azerbaijan 4,885 ha 2024 down 12.9% rising
44 Armenia 3,638 ha 2024 up 1.1% volatile
45 Tunisia 1,462 ha 2024 down 3.0% volatile
46 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,181 ha 2024 up 12.7% rising
47 Colombia 1,180 ha 2024 down 5.4% rising
48 Pakistan 840 ha 2024 up 740.0% volatile
49 Ecuador 728 ha 2024 up 0.8% rising
50 Mali 608 ha 2024 up 102.7% rising
51 Albania 517 ha 2024 down 68.8% volatile
52 Afghanistan 337 ha 2024 down 65.6% volatile
53 Lebanon 318 ha 2024 up 44.5% volatile
54 Slovenia 150 ha 2024 volatile
55 Uzbekistan 145 ha 2024 up 625.0% volatile
56 North Macedonia 143 ha 2024 down 8.9% volatile
57 Syrian Arab Republic 102 ha 2024 down 93.6% volatile
58 Luxembourg 70 ha 2024 volatile
59 Mexico 68 ha 2024 down 1.4% volatile
60 Greece 50 ha 2024 down 99.3% volatile
61 Bosnia and Herzegovina 24 ha 2024 down 52.0% volatile
62 Palestine 3 ha 2000 down 50.0% falling
63 Algeria 0 ha 1992 down 100.0% volatile
63 Bulgaria 0 ha 2024 volatile
63 Cyprus 0 ha 2024 flat
63 Uruguay 0 ha 2007 volatile
63 Portugal 0 ha 2023 down 100.0% volatile
63 Malta 0 ha 2024 flat
63 Latvia 0 ha 2024 volatile
63 Israel 0 ha 2009 volatile
63 Ireland 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
63 Georgia 0 ha 2007 down 100.0% volatile
63 Estonia 0 ha 2024 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
Sugar beet — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
97 places, 4,772 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.