Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs): Vegetables Primary — Area harvested was 8.56 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, vegetables primary — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) stood at 8.56 million ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.2% on the previous year and up 21.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) peaked at 8.56 million ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1.88 million ha, in 1961.
That places Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 6th out of 33 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2.08 million ha | 1.88 million ha | 2.23 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2.48 million ha | 2.27 million ha | 2.70 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3.03 million ha | 2.74 million ha | 3.27 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3.92 million ha | 3.40 million ha | 4.50 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5.41 million ha | 4.70 million ha | 6.25 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7.25 million ha | 6.57 million ha | 7.99 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8.29 million ha | 8.13 million ha | 8.56 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
More agriculture & rural data for Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
- Bananas — Production 31.46 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 2.33 million ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 52.34 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 21.20 million t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 176,426 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 52.34 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 24,497 kg/ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 184,718 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 49 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 52.34 million An (2024)
All data for Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) →
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Vegetables primary — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) was 8.56 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 8.56 million ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.88 million ha in 1961.
- How does Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank for vegetables primary — area harvested?
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 6th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — area harvested rising or falling in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Vegetables Primary — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.