Wheat — Area harvested in Belgium
Belgium: Wheat — Area harvested was 164,540 ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Wheat — Area harvested in Belgium, 2000–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — area harvested in Belgium is 164,540 ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 25 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 22.6% on the previous year and down 22.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — area harvested in Belgium peaked at 217,060 ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 164,540 ha, in 2024.
Belgium ranks 66th of 133 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 202,886 ha | 181,100 ha | 213,748 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 204,611 ha | 195,690 ha | 217,060 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 197,090 ha | 164,540 ha | 212,610 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Belgium
- 63 Belgium-Luxembourg 188,800 ha
- 64 Sudan (former) 182,700 ha compare
- 65 Estonia 173,320 ha compare
- 67 Sudan 155,830 ha compare
- 68 Croatia 140,800 ha compare
- 69 Saudi Arabia 129,202 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Belgium
- Agriculture share gdp 0.7302 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.7302 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
- Rural population 12.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 1.47 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 0.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — area harvested in Belgium?
- Wheat — area harvested in Belgium was 164,540 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — area harvested recorded in Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 217,060 ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest wheat — area harvested recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 164,540 ha in 2024.
- How does Belgium rank for wheat — area harvested?
- Belgium ranks 66th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — area harvested rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is down 22.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Belgium data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Wheat — 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.