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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- World 4.65 million ha
- Europe 3.14 million ha
- Eastern Europe 1.77 million ha
- European Union (27) 1.62 million ha
- Western Europe 1.05 million ha
- Asia 750,627 ha
- Americas 469,747 ha
- Northern America 457,590 ha
- United States of America 439,290 ha
- Western Asia 341,677 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 291,235 ha
- Africa 288,877 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.