Walnuts, in shell — 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
70
Highest
371,689 ha
China
Lowest
0 ha
Ireland
Median
3,318 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,714

What the numbers show

Walnuts, in shell — Area harvested is currently reported for 70 countries. The highest value is 371,689 ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Ireland.

The median across all reporting countries is 3,318 ha, and the mean is 24,847 ha.

Over the past decade 46 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Slovakia (up 914.3%), and the largest decrease in Yemen (down 100.0%).

Walnuts, in shell — Area harvested: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 371,689 ha 2024 up 49.1% rising
1 China, mainland 371,689 ha 2024 up 49.1% rising
3 Türkiye 178,005 ha 2024 up 156.5% volatile
4 Mexico 127,133 ha 2024 up 68.7% volatile
5 Burkina Faso 97,846 ha 2024 up 103.8% rising
6 India 97,284 ha 2024 down 20.3% volatile
7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 67,024 ha 2024 down 52.5% volatile
8 USSR 44,059 ha 1991 up 32.3% rising
9 Chile 43,990 ha 2024 up 80.3% volatile
10 Australia and New Zealand 29,456 ha 2024 up 106.7% volatile
11 Australia 29,192 ha 2024 up 112.3% volatile
12 Republic of Moldova 26,961 ha 2024 up 88.9% volatile
13 France 26,830 ha 2024 up 36.1% rising
14 Yugoslav SFR 19,713 ha 1991 down 2.4% flat
15 Greece 19,580 ha 2024 up 129.9% falling
16 Argentina 14,616 ha 2024 up 121.6% volatile
17 Ukraine 13,200 ha 2024 unchanged falling
18 Spain 13,110 ha 2024 up 61.7% volatile
19 Czechoslovakia 12,849 ha 1992 up 33.8% rising
20 Serbia and Montenegro 11,608 ha 2005 up 11.6% falling
21 North Macedonia 9,027 ha 2024 up 43.3% volatile
22 Croatia 8,500 ha 2024 up 94.8% rising
23 Hungary 8,060 ha 2024 up 85.7% flat
24 Morocco 7,915 ha 2024 up 13.7% rising
25 Afghanistan 7,865 ha 2024 up 239.4% volatile
26 Bulgaria 7,560 ha 2024 up 172.2% volatile
27 Italy 6,550 ha 2024 up 68.1% volatile
28 Portugal 5,720 ha 2024 up 94.2% rising
29 Uzbekistan 5,365 ha 2024 up 7.3% rising
30 Belarus 5,362 ha 2024 up 7.2% rising
31 Georgia 5,344 ha 2024 up 99.6% falling
32 Brazil 5,133 ha 2024 up 56.8% rising
33 Egypt 4,537 ha 2024 down 1.5% falling
34 Azerbaijan 4,075 ha 2024 up 41.1% rising
35 Serbia 3,427 ha 2024 down 28.4% falling
36 Romania 3,210 ha 2024 up 100.9% falling
37 Syrian Arab Republic 3,060 ha 2024 down 1.2% falling
38 Poland 3,000 ha 2024 up 8.2% volatile
39 Nepal 2,811 ha 2024 up 46.5% rising
40 Armenia 2,003 ha 2024 up 22.1% rising
41 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,735 ha 2024 up 384.6% volatile
42 Pakistan 1,699 ha 2024 up 0.8% rising
43 Switzerland 1,674 ha 2024 up 4.6% flat
44 Lebanon 1,448 ha 2024 up 17.7% volatile
45 Slovakia 1,420 ha 2024 up 914.3% volatile
46 Kyrgyzstan 1,346 ha 2024 up 7.7% rising
47 Iraq 1,114 ha 2024 down 4.1% falling
48 Germany 730 ha 2024 down 86.9% falling
49 Kazakhstan 634 ha 2024 up 52.8% rising
50 Slovenia 630 ha 2024 up 223.1% volatile
51 Republic of Korea 586 ha 2024 down 2.3% volatile
52 Montenegro 440 ha 2024 up 10.0% rising
53 New Zealand 264 ha 2024 down 47.1% falling
54 Belgium-Luxembourg 263 ha 1999 volatile
55 Cyprus 240 ha 2024 up 31.9% volatile
56 Austria 210 ha 2024 up 50.0% volatile
57 Belgium 190 ha 2024 up 5.6% falling
58 Czechia 120 ha 2024 down 36.8% volatile
59 Palestine 82 ha 2022 up 148.5% volatile
60 Peru 58 ha 2024 down 24.7% volatile
61 Bhutan 43 ha 2024 down 33.8% volatile
62 Luxembourg 10 ha 2024 down 16.7% volatile
63 Jordan 1 ha 2024 unchanged volatile
64 Latvia 0 ha 2024 flat
64 Malta 0 ha 2024 flat
64 Estonia 0 ha 2024 flat
64 Finland 0 ha 2024 flat
64 Yemen 0 ha 1997 down 100.0% volatile
64 Sweden 0 ha 2024 flat
64 Ireland 0 ha 2024 flat

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
Walnuts, in shell — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
95 places, 3,714 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.