The World of Apples

Apples by country

Where the varieties in the atlas came from, and how many apples each country grows.

Map of where the apple varieties in the atlas came from A map of the world on the Equal Earth projection, with a dot for each variety at its place of origin. Zimbabwe Zambia Yemen Vietnam Venezuela Vatican City Vanuatu Uzbekistan Uruguay Micronesia Marshall Islands Northern Mariana Islands Virgin Islands, U.S. Guam American Samoa Puerto Rico United States: 236 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands British Indian Ocean Territory Saint Helena Pitcairn Anguilla Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Cayman Islands Bermuda Virgin Islands, British Turks and Caicos Islands Montserrat Jersey Guernsey Isle of Man: 1 United Kingdom: 670 United Arab Emirates Ukraine: 7 Uganda Turkmenistan Turkey: 1 Tunisia Trinidad and Tobago Tonga Togo Timor-Leste Thailand Tanzania Tajikistan Taiwan Syria Switzerland: 19 Sweden: 22 Eswatini Suriname South Sudan Sudan Sri Lanka Spain: 3 South Korea: 4 South Africa: 3 Somalia Solomon Islands Slovakia Slovenia: 1 Singapore Sierra Leone Seychelles Serbia: 3 Senegal Saudi Arabia Sao Tome and Principe San Marino Samoa Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Lucia Saint Kitts and Nevis Rwanda Russia: 24 Romania: 23 Qatar Portugal: 2 Poland: 6 Philippines Peru Paraguay Papua New Guinea Panama Palau Pakistan Oman Norway North Korea Nigeria Niger Nicaragua New Zealand: 25 Niue Cook Islands Netherlands: 58 Aruba Curaçao Nepal Nauru Namibia Mozambique Morocco Western Sahara Montenegro Mongolia Moldova Monaco Mexico Mauritius Mauritania Malta Mali Maldives Malaysia Malawi Madagascar North Macedonia: 1 Luxembourg: 1 Lithuania: 1 Liechtenstein Libya Liberia Lesotho Lebanon Latvia Laos Kyrgyzstan Kuwait Kiribati Kenya Kazakhstan Jordan Japan: 38 Jamaica Italy: 32 Israel: 1 Palestine Ireland: 22 Iraq Iran: 1 Indonesia India: 1 Iceland Hungary: 32 Honduras Haiti Guyana Guinea-Bissau Guinea Guatemala Grenada Greece: 1 Ghana Germany: 96 Georgia Gambia Gabon France: 202 Saint Pierre and Miquelon Wallis and Futuna Saint Martin (French part) Saint Barthélemy French Polynesia New Caledonia French Southern Territories Åland Islands Finland: 1 Fiji Ethiopia Estonia: 1 Eritrea Equatorial Guinea El Salvador Egypt Ecuador Dominican Republic Dominica Djibouti Greenland Faroe Islands Denmark: 16 Czechia: 4 Cyprus Cuba Croatia Côte d'Ivoire Costa Rica Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Comoros Colombia China: 4 Macao Hong Kong Chile Chad Central African Republic Cape Verde Canada: 59 Cameroon Cambodia Myanmar Burundi Burkina Faso Bulgaria: 4 Brunei Brazil: 1 Botswana Bosnia and Herzegovina Bolivia Bhutan Benin Belize Belgium: 26 Belarus: 1 Barbados Bangladesh Bahrain Bahamas: 1 Azerbaijan Austria: 5 Australia: 17 Heard Island and McDonald Islands Norfolk Island Australia: 17 Armenia Argentina Antigua and Barbuda Angola Andorra Algeria Albania Afghanistan Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Countries shaded by how many of the varieties came from them; each dot is a variety's birthplace.
The countries the varieties came from
Country Varieties Harvest in 2024, tonnes
Australia 17 293,731
Austria 5 175,560
Bahamas 1
Belarus 1 336,700
Belgium 26 160,380
Brazil 1 997,470
Bulgaria 4 36,830
Canada 59 386,368
China 4 51,285,100
Czechia 4 37,490
Denmark 16 18,510
Estonia 1 2,160
Finland 1 9,170
France 202 1,964,030
Germany 96 871,990
Greece 1 263,210
Hungary 32 376,680
India 1 2,625,899
Iran 1 2,346,929
Ireland 22 21,990
Isle of Man 1
Israel 1 80,006
Italy 32 2,398,540
Japan 38 658,377
Lithuania 1 61,390
Luxembourg 1 1,470
Netherlands 58 194,000
New Zealand 25 575,214
North Macedonia 1 127,696
Poland 6 3,384,500
Portugal 2 313,210
Romania 23 487,140
Russia 24 2,014,406
Serbia 3 389,196
Slovenia 1 50,650
South Africa 3 1,327,545
South Korea 4 460,088
Spain 3 545,080
Sweden 22 30,900
Switzerland 19 213,926
Turkey 1 4,420,185
Ukraine 7 1,150,900
United Kingdom 670 408,047
United States 236 4,922,840

Sources

  1. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Updated 31 December 2025. Supports: each country's apple harvest by year (item 515, apples, in tonnes, 1961 to 2024), the shares of the world's harvest and the ranks worked out from them, and which figures FAOSTAT estimated or imputed.