True hemp, raw or retted — 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
True hemp, raw or retted — Area harvested is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 31,000 ha in USSR; the lowest is 0 ha in Bulgaria.
The median across all reporting countries is 480 ha, and the mean is 4,298 ha.
Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Belgium (up 257.1%), and the largest decrease in Czechoslovakia (down 100.0%).
True hemp, raw or retted — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USSR | 31,000 ha | 1991 | down 72.6% | falling |
| 2 | France | 22,960 ha | 2024 | up 111.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 22,080 ha | 2024 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 3 | China, mainland | 18,811 ha | 2024 | up 144.3% | volatile |
| 3 | China | 18,811 ha | 2024 | up 144.3% | volatile |
| 3 | Türkiye | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 4 | Syrian Arab Republic | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 5 | Germany | 4,800 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 6 | Chile | 4,614 ha | 2024 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 7 | Russian Federation | 3,464 ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | volatile |
| 8 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 3,370 ha | 2024 | up 106.4% | volatile |
| 9 | Ukraine | 1,500 ha | 2024 | down 1.4% | falling |
| 10 | Poland | 1,050 ha | 2024 | up 78.9% | volatile |
| 11 | Yugoslav SFR | 981 ha | 1991 | down 73.3% | volatile |
| 12 | Sweden | 880 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 13 | Lithuania | 780 ha | 2024 | down 48.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Austria | 550 ha | 2024 | down 39.3% | volatile |
| 15 | Belgium | 500 ha | 2024 | up 257.1% | volatile |
| 16 | Romania | 460 ha | 2024 | up 21.1% | volatile |
| 17 | Italy | 340 ha | 2024 | up 52.5% | volatile |
| 18 | Czechia | 140 ha | 2024 | down 36.9% | volatile |
| 19 | Hungary | 110 ha | 2019 | down 63.3% | volatile |
| 20 | Serbia and Montenegro | 99 ha | 2005 | down 88.3% | volatile |
| 21 | Portugal | 93 ha | 1970 | down 23.8% | falling |
| 22 | Spain | 50 ha | 2024 | up 8.7% | volatile |
| 23 | Ireland | 40 ha | 2024 | down 42.9% | volatile |
| 23 | Greece | 40 ha | 2024 | down 88.9% | volatile |
| 25 | Republic of Korea | 11 ha | 2024 | down 8.3% | volatile |
| 26 | Japan | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 27 | Croatia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 27 | Czechoslovakia | 0 ha | 1992 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 27 | Bulgaria | 0 ha | 2022 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 95,071 ha
- Asia 40,904 ha
- Europe 40,924 ha
- Eastern Asia 40,903 ha
- European Union (27) 35,960 ha
- Western Europe 32,180 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 22,080 ha
- Americas 12,244 ha
- Eastern Europe 6,614 ha
- South America 4,614 ha
- Northern Europe 1,700 ha
- Southern Europe 430 ha
- Western Asia 1 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.