Vanilla, raw — 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
19
Highest
74,482 ha
Madagascar
Lowest
0 ha
Cook Islands
Median
364 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
1,880

What the numbers show

Vanilla, raw — Area harvested is currently reported for 19 countries. The highest value is 74,482 ha in Madagascar; the lowest is 0 ha in Cook Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 364 ha, and the mean is 5,169 ha.

Over the past decade 6 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in China (up 124.0%), and the largest decrease in Indonesia (down 30.0%).

Vanilla, raw — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Madagascar 74,482 ha 2024 down 2.4% volatile
2 Indonesia 9,525 ha 2024 down 30.0% volatile
3 China 2,733 ha 2024 up 124.0% volatile
3 China, mainland 2,733 ha 2024 up 124.0% volatile
5 Türkiye 2,039 ha 2024 up 42.6% volatile
6 Melanesia 1,878 ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
7 Papua New Guinea 1,870 ha 2024 up 4.7% rising
8 Comoros 976 ha 2024 down 19.0% rising
9 Mexico 800 ha 2024 down 14.3% volatile
10 Uganda 364 ha 2024 up 2.0% volatile
11 Polynesia 309 ha 2024 down 9.1% volatile
12 Tonga 265 ha 2024 down 6.0% volatile
13 Malawi 76 ha 2024 down 2.6% falling
14 French Polynesia 44 ha 2024 down 24.1% volatile
15 Caribbean 40 ha 2006 down 4.8% volatile
15 Guadeloupe 40 ha 2006 down 4.8% volatile
17 Zimbabwe 23 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
18 Kenya 21 ha 2024 down 4.5% falling
19 Cook Islands 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
Vanilla, raw — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
35 places, 1,880 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.