environmental2024

Land under cereal production (hectares)

Compare land under cereal production (hectares) across 79 countries or territories using one fixed 2024 World Bank reference slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
5,262,051.7hectares
Median: 795,426.0hectares
Countries Covered
79
with available data
Highest
India
107,673,781.0hectares
Lowest
Barbados
0.0hectares
Top 5 Countries
1India107,673,781.0hectares
2United States of America54,078,269.0hectares
3Brazil27,781,508.0hectares
4Australia19,463,223.0hectares
5Nigeria18,275,835.0hectares
By Region
North America54,078,269.0hectares(1 countries)
Asia27,738,131.4hectares(5 countries)
Oceania9,792,196.5hectares(2 countries)
Africa7,793,451.4hectares(5 countries)
South America7,077,454.4hectares(7 countries)
Key Findings
  • 79 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite hectares observation in the fixed 2024 slice.
  • India has the highest published value (1.07674e+08 hectares).
  • Barbados has the lowest published value (0 hectares).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0hectares)High (107,673,781.0hectares)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 5,262,051.7hectares)

North America (1)
Asia (5)
Oceania (2)
Africa (5)
South America (7)
Europe (14)
Other (45)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Land under cereal production refers to harvested area, although some countries report only sown or cultivated area. Cereals include wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, and mixed grains. 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 and those used for grazing are excluded.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2024 World Bank slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Land under cereal production refers to harvested area, although some countries report only sown or cultivated area. Cereals include wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, and mixed grains. 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 and those used for grazing are excluded.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1India107,673,781.0hectares
2United States of America54,078,269.0hectares
3Brazil27,781,508.0hectares
4Australia19,463,223.0hectares
5Nigeria18,275,835.0hectares
6Argentina17,660,490.0hectares
7Kazakhstan16,061,052.0hectares
8Bangladesh12,268,360.0hectares
9Ethiopia12,069,713.0hectares
10Sudan11,591,941.0hectares
11Türkiye11,379,632.0hectares
12Ukraine10,811,000.0hectares
13Niger10,331,974.0hectares
14France8,526,600.0hectares
15Myanmar7,972,532.0hectares
16Spain5,510,760.0hectares
17Democratic Republic of the Congo5,033,816.0hectares
18Burkina Faso4,348,855.0hectares
19Guinea3,985,943.0hectares
20Mozambique3,420,998.0hectares
21South Africa3,356,840.0hectares
22Chad3,276,392.0hectares
23Uganda2,953,368.0hectares
24Syrian Arab Republic2,695,375.0hectares
25Algeria2,680,109.0hectares
26Afghanistan2,635,327.0hectares
27Morocco2,584,760.0hectares
28Belarus2,277,596.0hectares
29Hungary2,254,010.0hectares
30Cameroon2,172,460.0hectares
31Benin2,142,777.0hectares
32Bolivia1,691,778.0hectares
33North Korea1,353,402.0hectares
34Denmark1,229,650.0hectares
35Peru1,221,107.0hectares
36Lao People's Democratic Republic1,016,601.0hectares
37Colombia981,981.0hectares
38Azerbaijan964,494.0hectares
39Uruguay813,974.0hectares
40Tunisia795,426.0hectares
41Austria726,060.0hectares
42Greece709,120.0hectares
43Ecuador696,223.0hectares
44Burundi678,679.0hectares
45Slovakia663,130.0hectares
46Rwanda546,634.0hectares
47Eritrea478,367.0hectares
48Chile386,898.0hectares
49Tajikistan376,457.0hectares
50Mauritania370,911.0hectares
51El Salvador317,461.0hectares
52Norway279,979.0hectares
53Ireland258,930.0hectares
54Libya249,794.0hectares
55Guinea-Bissau242,659.0hectares
56Dominican Republic235,617.0hectares
57Portugal191,630.0hectares
58Netherlands153,500.0hectares
59The Republic of North Macedonia149,249.0hectares
60New Zealand121,170.0hectares
61Armenia109,701.0hectares
62Panama109,277.0hectares
63Slovenia102,180.0hectares
64Botswana60,588.0hectares
65Jordan52,137.0hectares
66Gabon30,075.0hectares
67Bhutan20,654.0hectares
68Cyprus20,070.0hectares
69Costa Rica18,980.0hectares
70Vanuatu1,549.0hectares
71Grenada178.0hectares
72Micronesia, Federated States of169.0hectares
73Cape Verde124.0hectares
74Maldives84.0hectares
75Bahamas78.0hectares
76Saint Vincent and the Grenadines32.0hectares
77Antigua and Barbuda26.0hectares
78Djibouti9.0hectares
79Barbados0.0hectares
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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2024).

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