The World of Apples

Apples of Belgium

26 varieties in the atlas came from Belgium. The oldest is Baumann's Reinette, dated by 1811.

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

Belgium grew 160,380 tonnes of apples in 2024, 0.16% of the world's harvest; it ranked 47th among the world's producers.1

2000 2024
The figures
YearTonnes
2024 160,380
2023 203,010
2022 238,600
2021 249,740
2020 168,030
2019 241,860
2018 231,300
2017 86,236
2016 238,244
2015 284,210
2014 318,400
2013 228,900
2012 220,400
2011 228,405
2010 343,980
2009 310,600
2008 335,000
2007 358,000
2006 357,500
2005 324,960
2004 355,800
2003 318,900
2002 348,600
2001 336,600
2000 545,460

Varieties from Belgium, oldest first

  • Photograph of Jonagored apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Jonagored

    A blood-red sport of Jonagold, found in 1980 at the top of a tree in Jos Morren's orchard at Halen, Belgium

    Belgium, 1980

  • Nicoter

    Crossed at Sint-Truiden, Belgium, in May 1993 from Gala and Braeburn; its variety rights reached the EU Court of Justice

    Belgium, 1993

And 24 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.