For me, life is a bowl of cherries.

Sissy Spacek

Almost a third of the more than 1 million tons of the global production is harvested in Turkey, followed by Egypt, Iran, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, Oman and Tunisia complete the top 10. Dates are harvested in almost 40 countries world wide.

Colour Key

North America

Central America

Caribbean

South America

Northern Europe

Central Europe

Eastern Europe

Southern Europe

Southern Africa

Northern Africa

Western Africa

Central Africa

Eastern Africa

Russia

Central Asia

Western Asia

Southern Asia

Eastern Asia

Australasia

Southeastern Asia

Pacific Oceania

Reference Map

Map No.

250

Topic(s)

Resources - Crops

Agricultural Workers

Population Year 2018

Technical Notes

Territory size is proportional to dates (Phoenix dactylifera. Includes fresh and dried fruit) harvested there in 2016.

Data sources
This map uses data by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

All modification to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

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