Vetches — Area harvested in Egypt
Egypt: Vetches — Area harvested was 754 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vetches — Area harvested in Egypt, 1966–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Egypt recorded 754 ha for vetches — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 0.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vetches — area harvested in Egypt peaked at 800 ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 410 ha, in 1966.
Egypt ranks 29th of 43 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 59 years of available data.
Vetches — Area harvested in Egypt, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 410 ha | — |
| 1967 | 420 ha | +2.4% |
| 1968 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 420 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 500 ha | +19.0% |
| 1979 | 500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 550 ha | +10.0% |
| 1987 | 550 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 560 ha | +1.8% |
| 1989 | 570 ha | +1.8% |
| 1990 | 580 ha | +1.8% |
| 1991 | 600 ha | +3.4% |
| 1992 | 615 ha | +2.5% |
| 1993 | 620 ha | +0.8% |
| 1994 | 600 ha | -3.2% |
| 1995 | 620 ha | +3.3% |
| 1996 | 625 ha | +0.8% |
| 1997 | 650 ha | +4.0% |
| 1998 | 675 ha | +3.8% |
| 1999 | 680 ha | +0.7% |
| 2000 | 720 ha | +5.9% |
| 2001 | 704 ha | -2.2% |
| 2002 | 716 ha | +1.7% |
| 2003 | 733 ha | +2.4% |
| 2004 | 730 ha | -0.4% |
| 2005 | 733 ha | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 752 ha | +2.6% |
| 2007 | 756 ha | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 750 ha | -0.8% |
| 2009 | 800 ha | +6.7% |
| 2010 | 750 ha | -6.2% |
| 2011 | 729 ha | -2.8% |
| 2012 | 700 ha | -4.0% |
| 2013 | 700 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 750 ha | +7.1% |
| 2015 | 749 ha | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 746 ha | -0.4% |
| 2017 | 748 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 750 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 754 ha | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 757 ha | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 758 ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 751 ha | -0.9% |
| 2023 | 752 ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 754 ha | +0.3% |
Egypt compared with similar countries
- Egypt's 754 ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 754 ha, 1.0× the median. (5 countries reporting)
- Egypt's 754 ha is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 626 ha, 1.2× the median. (10 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 417.5 ha | 410 ha | 420 ha | 4 |
| 1970s | 436 ha | 420 ha | 500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 523 ha | 500 ha | 570 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 626.5 ha | 580 ha | 680 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 739.4 ha | 704 ha | 800 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 737.6 ha | 700 ha | 754 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 754.4 ha | 751 ha | 758 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Egypt
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.32 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1655 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 510.76 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.571 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vetches — area harvested in Egypt?
- Vetches — area harvested in Egypt was 754 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vetches — area harvested recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 800 ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest vetches — area harvested recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 410 ha in 1966.
- How does Egypt rank for vetches — area harvested?
- Egypt ranks 29th out of 43 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vetches — area harvested rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Vetches — 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.