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Report year 1969Data year 1969
Land under cereal production (hectares)Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a scorePublished by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
63 reference years (1961–2023), covering 149 to 181 countries, from FAOSTAT and served through the World Bank's indicator API (AG.LND.CREL.HA). Hectares harvested for wheat, rice, maize, barley, sorghum and the rest. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER: this is an AREA, so it tracks a country's size and geography before it tracks its farming, and Russia and Malta cannot be compared on it. Its value is alongside CEREAL YIELD, already on the site — together they separate a country feeding itself by farming BETTER from one feeding itself by farming MORE LAND. ⚠ HARVESTED area, not planted area, so a failed harvest reduces it and a drought year shows up as lost land. ⚠ ZERO IS A REAL READING: Kuwait harvested no cereals at all in 1961, and several desert and island states still do not. ⚠ 2024 reports 79 countries and is not imported. The FAO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION is a SIZE ORDER derived here and labelled as ours.
Land Under Cereal Production 1969 — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Hectares of land harvested for cereals — wheat, rice, maize, barley, sorghum and the rest — from FAOSTAT, served through the World Bank's indicator API (AG.LND.CREL.HA). ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER: this is an AREA, so it tracks a country's size before it tracks its farming. Its value is alongside cereal yield, already on the site — together they separate a country feeding itself by farming BETTER from one farming MORE LAND. ⚠ Harvested area, not planted area, so a failed harvest reduces it. The FAO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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| Country | ISO Code | Land under cereal production (hectares) |
|---|---|---|
| India | IND | 100,872,596 |
| China | CHN | 91,280,008 |
| United States | USA | 59,258,754 |
| Canada | CAN | 18,334,919 |
| Brazil | BRA | 15,774,034 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 14,400,000 |
| Turkiye | TUR | 13,304,450 |
| Australia | AUS | 12,781,700 |
| Argentina | ARG | 11,884,800 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 10,545,400 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 10,448,440 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 9,706,300 |
| France | FRA | 9,375,548 |
| Mexico | MEX | 9,273,880 |
| Poland | POL | 8,669,300 |
| Thailand | THA | 7,974,893 |
| Germany | DEU | 7,499,085 |
| Spain | ESP | 7,350,702 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | IRN | 7,136,000 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 6,772,300 |
| Romania | ROU | 6,563,321 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 6,499,800 |
| Italy | ITA | 5,922,142 |
| Philippines | PHL | 5,615,430 |
| Viet Nam | VNM | 5,172,000 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 5,028,697 |
| Morocco | MAR | 4,642,400 |
| Japan | JPN | 3,925,820 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 3,699,550 |
| Hungary | HUN | 3,252,292 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 3,081,500 |
| Algeria | DZA | 3,012,480 |
| Niger | NER | 2,886,242 |
| Sudan | SDN | 2,493,008 |
| Korea, Rep. | KOR | 2,224,792 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 2,164,583 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 2,154,263 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 2,140,460 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 2,046,200 |
| Nepal | NPL | 1,951,485 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | SYR | 1,931,088 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | EGY | 1,920,028 |
| Kenya | KEN | 1,783,814 |
| Denmark | DNK | 1,704,169 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 1,701,150 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 1,688,981 |
| Greece | GRC | 1,635,540 |
| Portugal | PRT | 1,631,285 |
| Korea, Dem. People's Rep. | PRK | 1,508,000 |
| Sweden | SWE | 1,486,969 |
| Uganda | UGA | 1,370,000 |
| Mali | MLI | 1,350,740 |
| Senegal | SEN | 1,207,337 |
| Malawi | MWI | 1,184,300 |
| Finland | FIN | 1,156,900 |
| Colombia | COL | 1,143,960 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1,124,060 |
| Yemen, Rep. | YEM | 1,100,918 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 1,073,112 |
| Chad | TCD | 983,533 |
| Austria | AUT | 957,929 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 954,400 |
| Chile | CHL | 951,251 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 939,792 |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | COD | 908,800 |
| Peru | PER | 826,697 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 811,436 |
| Uruguay | URY | 807,290 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 782,095 |
| Venezuela, RB | VEN | 766,311 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | 731,050 |
| Angola | AGO | 721,000 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 693,311 |
| Lao PDR | LAO | 678,773 |
| Ghana | GHA | 649,182 |
| Libya | LBY | 629,299 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 614,933 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 582,000 |
| Somalia, Fed. Rep. | SOM | 519,000 |
| Benin | BEN | 493,091 |
| Haiti | HTI | 480,000 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 464,910 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 414,000 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 406,193 |
| Guinea | GIN | 369,020 |
| Ireland | IRL | 357,940 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 338,025 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 332,484 |
| Honduras | HND | 327,876 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 323,918 |
| Albania | ALB | 322,299 |
| Togo | TGO | 322,000 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 318,623 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 311,127 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 288,012 |
| Norway | NOR | 244,494 |
| Panama | PAN | 228,200 |
| Cuba | CUB | 222,300 |
| Jordan | JOR | 221,975 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 218,508 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 176,049 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 175,385 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 171,526 |
| Botswana | BWA | 161,765 |
| Burundi | BDI | 152,102 |
| Namibia | NAM | 149,400 |
| Liberia | LBR | 147,000 |
| Israel | ISR | 145,915 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 138,060 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 127,000 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 115,600 |
| Guyana | GUY | 114,202 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 113,800 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 110,564 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 85,700 |
| Gambia, The | GMB | 83,709 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 69,000 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 55,215 |
| Suriname | SUR | 32,686 |
| Timor-Leste | TLS | 21,000 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 16,000 |
| Comoros | COM | 12,300 |
| Fiji | FJI | 10,813 |
| Congo, Rep. | COG | 10,500 |
| Belize | BLZ | 8,785 |
| Hong Kong SAR, China | HKG | 8,067 |
| Gabon | GAB | 5,630 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 4,265 |
| Puerto Rico (US) | PRI | 3,820 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 3,710 |
| Brunei Darussalam | BRN | 3,650 |
| Oman | OMN | 3,100 |
| Malta | MLT | 2,715 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 1,349 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 1,024 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 800 |
| Barbados | BRB | 730 |
| Grenada | GRD | 600 |
| New Caledonia | NCL | 590 |
| Bahamas, The | BHS | 500 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 446 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | STP | 305 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 135 |
| Dominica | DMA | 130 |
| Maldives | MDV | 106 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 28 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 20 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 3 |
| Qatar | QAT | 0 |
| United Arab Emirates | ARE | 0 |