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Area of land needed to meet global vegetable oil demand, 2018

This metric represents the amount of land that would need to be devoted to grow a given crop if it was to meet global vegetable oil demand alone. Global vegetable oil
demand was 218 million tonnes in 2018.

0 ha500 million ha1 billion ha1.5 billion ha2 billion haSesameseed Oil2.04 billion haCottonseed Oil1.54 billion haGroundnut Oil1.19 billion haCoconut Oil846.69 million haOlive Oil642.26 million haSoybean Oil486.76 million haRape and Mustard Oil335.19 million haSunflowerseed Oil306.03 million haPalm Oil76.97 million ha

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