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...
What the numbers show
Walnuts, in shell — Area harvested is currently reported for 64 countries. The highest value is 371,689 ha in China; the lowest is 0 ha in Yemen.
The median across all reporting countries is 4,835 ha, and the mean is 27,176 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 371,689 ha | 2024 | up 49.1% | rising |
| 1 | China, mainland | 371,689 ha | 2024 | up 49.1% | rising |
| 2 | Türkiye | 178,005 ha | 2024 | up 156.5% | volatile |
| 3 | Mexico | 127,133 ha | 2024 | up 68.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Burkina Faso | 97,846 ha | 2024 | up 103.8% | rising |
| 4 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 67,024 ha | 2024 | down 52.5% | volatile |
| 5 | India | 97,284 ha | 2024 | down 20.3% | volatile |
| 5 | Republic of Moldova | 26,961 ha | 2024 | up 88.9% | volatile |
| 6 | USSR | 44,059 ha | 1991 | up 32.3% | rising |
| 6 | Syrian Arab Republic | 3,060 ha | 2024 | down 1.2% | falling |
| 7 | Chile | 43,990 ha | 2024 | up 80.3% | volatile |
| 8 | Australia and New Zealand | 29,456 ha | 2024 | up 106.7% | volatile |
| 9 | Australia | 29,192 ha | 2024 | up 112.3% | volatile |
| 10 | France | 26,830 ha | 2024 | up 36.1% | rising |
| 11 | Yugoslav SFR | 19,713 ha | 1991 | down 2.4% | flat |
| 12 | Greece | 19,580 ha | 2024 | up 129.9% | falling |
| 13 | Argentina | 14,616 ha | 2024 | up 121.6% | volatile |
| 14 | Ukraine | 13,200 ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 15 | Spain | 13,110 ha | 2024 | up 61.7% | volatile |
| 16 | Czechoslovakia | 12,849 ha | 1992 | up 33.8% | rising |
| 17 | Serbia and Montenegro | 11,608 ha | 2005 | up 11.6% | falling |
| 18 | North Macedonia | 9,027 ha | 2024 | up 43.3% | volatile |
| 19 | Croatia | 8,500 ha | 2024 | up 94.8% | rising |
| 20 | Hungary | 8,060 ha | 2024 | up 85.7% | flat |
| 21 | Morocco | 7,915 ha | 2024 | up 13.7% | rising |
| 22 | Afghanistan | 7,865 ha | 2024 | up 239.4% | volatile |
| 23 | Bulgaria | 7,560 ha | 2024 | up 172.2% | volatile |
| 24 | Italy | 6,550 ha | 2024 | up 68.1% | volatile |
| 25 | Portugal | 5,720 ha | 2024 | up 94.2% | rising |
| 26 | Uzbekistan | 5,365 ha | 2024 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 27 | Belarus | 5,362 ha | 2024 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 28 | Georgia | 5,344 ha | 2024 | up 99.6% | falling |
| 29 | Brazil | 5,133 ha | 2024 | up 56.8% | rising |
| 30 | Egypt | 4,537 ha | 2024 | down 1.5% | falling |
| 31 | Azerbaijan | 4,075 ha | 2024 | up 41.1% | rising |
| 32 | Serbia | 3,427 ha | 2024 | down 28.4% | falling |
| 33 | Romania | 3,210 ha | 2024 | up 100.9% | falling |
| 34 | Poland | 3,000 ha | 2024 | up 8.2% | volatile |
| 35 | Nepal | 2,811 ha | 2024 | up 46.5% | rising |
| 36 | Armenia | 2,003 ha | 2024 | up 22.1% | rising |
| 37 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,735 ha | 2024 | up 384.6% | volatile |
| 38 | Pakistan | 1,699 ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 39 | Switzerland | 1,674 ha | 2024 | up 4.6% | flat |
| 40 | Lebanon | 1,448 ha | 2024 | up 17.7% | volatile |
| 41 | Slovakia | 1,420 ha | 2024 | up 914.3% | volatile |
| 42 | Kyrgyzstan | 1,346 ha | 2024 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 43 | Iraq | 1,114 ha | 2024 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 44 | Germany | 730 ha | 2024 | down 86.9% | falling |
| 45 | Kazakhstan | 634 ha | 2024 | up 52.8% | rising |
| 46 | Slovenia | 630 ha | 2024 | up 223.1% | volatile |
| 47 | Republic of Korea | 586 ha | 2024 | down 2.3% | volatile |
| 48 | Montenegro | 440 ha | 2024 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 49 | New Zealand | 264 ha | 2024 | down 47.1% | falling |
| 50 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 263 ha | 1999 | — | volatile |
| 51 | Cyprus | 240 ha | 2024 | up 31.9% | volatile |
| 52 | Austria | 210 ha | 2024 | up 50.0% | volatile |
| 53 | Belgium | 190 ha | 2024 | up 5.6% | falling |
| 54 | Czechia | 120 ha | 2024 | down 36.8% | volatile |
| 55 | Palestine | 82 ha | 2022 | up 148.5% | volatile |
| 56 | Peru | 58 ha | 2024 | down 24.7% | volatile |
| 57 | Bhutan | 43 ha | 2024 | down 33.8% | volatile |
| 58 | Luxembourg | 10 ha | 2024 | down 16.7% | volatile |
| 59 | Jordan | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 60 | Yemen | 0 ha | 1997 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 1.40 million ha
- Asia 751,702 ha
- Eastern Asia 372,275 ha
- Americas 340,665 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 108,522 ha
- Western Asia 195,357 ha
- Southern Asia 176,726 ha
- Europe 167,635 ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 157,976 ha
- Northern America 149,735 ha
- United States of America 149,735 ha
- Central America 127,133 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 122,776 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 118,293 ha
- Africa 110,299 ha
- European Union (27) 106,050 ha
- Western Africa 97,846 ha
- Eastern Europe 68,893 ha
- Southern Europe 68,719 ha
- South America 63,797 ha
- Western Europe 29,644 ha
- Oceania 29,456 ha
- Northern Africa 12,453 ha
- Central Asia 7,345 ha
- Northern Europe 380 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.