Watermelons — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs): Watermelons — Area harvested was 400,660 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Watermelons — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) recorded 400,660 ha for watermelons — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.6% on the previous year and up 52.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) peaked at 411,368 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 78,526 ha, in 1961.
That places Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 5th out of 32 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 92,983 ha | 78,526 ha | 102,021 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 113,858 ha | 104,217 ha | 124,220 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 135,897 ha | 114,127 ha | 157,194 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 186,051 ha | 148,585 ha | 237,543 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 239,147 ha | 195,403 ha | 264,492 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 288,359 ha | 234,843 ha | 368,588 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 400,561 ha | 389,310 ha | 411,368 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
- 2 China, mainland 1.45 million ha compare
- 3 USSR 480,000 ha compare
- 4 India 127,811 ha compare
- 5 Russian Federation 106,017 ha compare
- 6 Senegal 92,607 ha compare
- 7 Brazil 83,288 ha compare
- 8 Afghanistan 76,004 ha compare
More environment data for Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
- Temperature change 1.34 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.221 °C (2025)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$ 543,041 million USD (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Agricultural Use 10.59 million t (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Export quantity 4.43 million t (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Import quantity 5.12 million t (2024)
- Agricultural land — Area 1.21 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 41.05 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 317,994 1000 ha (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Annual growth US$ 3.14 % (2024)
All data for Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) →
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Watermelons — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) was 400,660 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — area harvested recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 411,368 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest watermelons — area harvested recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 78,526 ha in 1961.
- How does Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank for watermelons — area harvested?
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 5th out of 32 groups with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — area harvested rising or falling in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 52.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Watermelons — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.