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...
What the numbers show
Vanilla, raw — Area harvested is currently reported for 20 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 339.5 ha, and the mean is 4,927 ha.
Over the past decade 6 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in China (up 124.0%), and the largest decrease in Réunion (down 46.3%).
Vanilla, raw — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 4 | Türkiye | 2,039 ha | 2024 | up 42.6% | volatile |
| 5 | Melanesia | 1,878 ha | 2024 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 5 | Papua New Guinea | 1,870 ha | 2024 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 6 | Comoros | 976 ha | 2024 | down 19.0% | rising |
| 6 | Polynesia | 309 ha | 2024 | down 9.1% | volatile |
| 7 | Mexico | 800 ha | 2024 | down 14.3% | volatile |
| 8 | Uganda | 364 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | volatile |
| 9 | Réunion | 315 ha | 2006 | down 46.3% | falling |
| 10 | Tonga | 265 ha | 2024 | down 6.0% | volatile |
| 11 | Malawi | 76 ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | falling |
| 12 | French Polynesia | 44 ha | 2024 | down 24.1% | volatile |
| 13 | Caribbean | 40 ha | 2006 | down 4.8% | volatile |
| 13 | Guadeloupe | 40 ha | 2006 | down 4.8% | volatile |
| 14 | Zimbabwe | 23 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 15 | Kenya | 21 ha | 2024 | down 4.5% | falling |
| 16 | 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.
- World 93,227 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 75,899 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 76,184 ha
- Asia 14,298 ha
- Africa 75,943 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 75,943 ha
- Eastern Africa 75,943 ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 3,163 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 9,525 ha
- Eastern Asia 2,733 ha
- Oceania 2,187 ha
- Western Asia 2,039 ha
- Americas 800 ha
- Central America 800 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 464 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.