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
71
Highest
3.17 million ha
USSR
Lowest
0 ha
Bulgaria
Median
16,030 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,772

What the numbers show

Sugar beet — Area harvested is currently reported for 71 countries. The highest value is 3.17 million ha in USSR; the lowest is 0 ha in Bulgaria.

The median across all reporting countries is 16,030 ha, and the mean is 113,739 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
2 Türkiye 324,286 ha 2024 up 12.8% rising
3 Germany 437,200 ha 2024 up 17.4% falling
3 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 84,764 ha 2024 down 12.7% falling
4 France 411,630 ha 2024 up 1.1% falling
4 Republic of Moldova 14,107 ha 2024 down 48.1% volatile
5 Poland 277,920 ha 2024 up 40.6% falling
5 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,181 ha 2024 up 12.7% rising
6 Egypt 264,840 ha 2024 up 25.0% volatile
7 Ukraine 253,600 ha 2024 down 23.2% volatile
7 Syrian Arab Republic 102 ha 2024 down 93.6% volatile
8 China 217,570 ha 2024 up 56.8% volatile
8 China, mainland 217,570 ha 2024 up 56.8% volatile
10 Czechoslovakia 169,531 ha 1992 down 20.2% falling
11 Yugoslav SFR 142,555 ha 1991 down 3.2% rising
12 Belarus 106,000 ha 2024 up 2.1% rising
13 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 102,389 ha 2024 down 12.0% falling
14 Belgium-Luxembourg 101,191 ha 1999 down 4.4% rising
15 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 84,480 ha 2024 up 12.5% falling
16 Czechia 65,910 ha 2024 up 4.7% falling
17 Serbia and Montenegro 64,326 ha 2005 up 4.1% falling
18 Belgium 58,330 ha 2024 down 0.5% falling
19 Japan 48,900 ha 2024 down 14.8% rising
20 Serbia 46,839 ha 2024 down 26.9% falling
21 Spain 45,690 ha 2024 up 18.9% volatile
22 Austria 43,000 ha 2024 down 15.0% falling
23 Denmark 34,900 ha 2024 down 8.2% falling
24 Italy 29,230 ha 2024 down 43.8% volatile
25 Sweden 28,430 ha 2024 down 17.4% falling
26 Kazakhstan 25,010 ha 2024 up 2,418.6% volatile
27 Slovakia 23,550 ha 2024 up 6.0% falling
28 Romania 22,920 ha 2024 down 26.7% volatile
29 Morocco 21,966 ha 2024 down 58.5% rising
30 Canada 18,300 ha 2024 up 125.9% falling
31 Turkmenistan 17,900 ha 2024 up 20.6% rising
32 Switzerland 16,774 ha 2024 down 20.3% rising
33 Hungary 16,130 ha 2024 up 4.6% volatile
34 Lithuania 16,030 ha 2024 down 5.7% falling
35 Finland 14,000 ha 2024 up 2.2% falling
36 Kyrgyzstan 13,484 ha 2024 up 85.4% volatile
37 Chile 8,999 ha 2024 down 50.9% volatile
38 Croatia 8,960 ha 2024 down 59.1% falling
39 Iraq 8,448 ha 2024 up 59.5% volatile
40 Azerbaijan 4,885 ha 2024 down 12.9% rising
41 Armenia 3,638 ha 2024 up 1.1% volatile
42 Tunisia 1,462 ha 2024 down 3.0% volatile
43 Colombia 1,180 ha 2024 down 5.4% rising
44 Pakistan 840 ha 2024 up 740.0% volatile
45 Ecuador 728 ha 2024 up 0.8% rising
46 Mali 608 ha 2024 up 102.7% rising
47 Albania 517 ha 2024 down 68.8% volatile
48 Afghanistan 337 ha 2024 down 65.6% volatile
49 Lebanon 318 ha 2024 up 44.5% volatile
50 Slovenia 150 ha 2024 — volatile
51 Uzbekistan 145 ha 2024 up 625.0% volatile
52 North Macedonia 143 ha 2024 down 8.9% volatile
53 Luxembourg 70 ha 2024 — volatile
54 Mexico 68 ha 2024 down 1.4% volatile
55 Greece 50 ha 2024 down 99.3% volatile
56 Bosnia and Herzegovina 24 ha 2024 down 52.0% volatile
57 Palestine 3 ha 2000 down 50.0% falling
58 Algeria 0 ha 1992 down 100.0% volatile
58 Estonia 0 ha 2024 — volatile
58 Ireland 0 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
58 Israel 0 ha 2009 — volatile
58 Georgia 0 ha 2007 down 100.0% volatile
58 Latvia 0 ha 2024 — volatile
58 Uruguay 0 ha 2007 — volatile
58 Portugal 0 ha 2023 down 100.0% volatile
58 Bulgaria 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.

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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
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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.