The World of Apples

Apples of Austria

5 varieties in the atlas came from Austria. The oldest is Schmidtbergers Rote Reinette, dated about 1832.

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.

Harvest

Austria grew 175,560 tonnes of apples in 2024, 0.18% of the world's harvest; it ranked 46th among the world's producers.1

1961 2024
The figures
YearTonnes
2024 175,560
2023 191,910
2022 260,610
2021 206,290
2020 258,220
2019 239,210
2018 387,950
2017 185,240
2016 101,670
2015 287,600
2014 310,340
2013 234,590
2012 262,110
2011 302,810
2010 270,810
2009 485,610
2008 551,360
2007 477,880
2006 509,100
2005 452,600
2004 484,100
2003 422,600
2002 478,500
2001 409,700
2000 490,400
1999 409,671
1998 416,493
1997 477,277
1996 367,553
1995 383,876
1994 334,248
1993 375,222
1992 268,719
1991 276,848
1990 337,741
1989 321,264
1988 413,049
1987 263,532
1986 368,585
1985 293,152
1984 353,195
1983 326,547
1982 428,819
1981 243,199
1980 329,932
1979 326,357
1978 291,186
1977 263,508
1976 329,261
1975 303,746
1974 324,203
1973 287,462
1972 156,358
1971 243,658
1970 308,809
1969 327,690
1968 328,675
1967 360,937
1966 366,654
1965 222,000
1964 447,000
1963 436,000
1962 431,000
1961 456,000

Varieties from Austria, oldest first

  • Ilzer Rosenapfel

    A perfumed chance seedling of about 1840 from eastern Styria, by 1920 one of the region's main apples

    Austria, about 1840

And 4 more in the catalogue, A to Z

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.