Database Statistics



The World Crops Database keeps growing. Regularly, new crops, more crop names, crop information and images are added.

This page shows the current database statistics.

Crops, Genera, Families and Orders

Our database currently features details on 638 individual crop species and cultivars, alongside 36 crop groups representing collections of closely related cultivated plants (e.g., Amaranthus spp. or Freesia spp.).

Here's a breakdown of the botanical classifications:

- Orders: 49
- Families: 119
- Genera: 395

Crop names in different languages

Total names in the database: 7786
- Scientific names and synonyms: 863
- English: 2111
- Dutch: 995
- Spanish: 995
- French: 1004
- German: 1243
- Italian: 477
- Other: 98

Crops by category

Agroecological zone: 667
Alcohol production: 11
Alcoholic drinks: 11
Algae: 6
Aphrodisiacs: 8
Arid crops: 104
Botanical pesticides: 5
Bulb vegetables: 4
Cereals: 26
Cool temperate crops: 216
Corm vegetables: 4
Cover crops: 3
Cultivation status: 657
Cut flowers: 11
Dye crops: 10
Edible seeds: 18
Energy crops: 13
Erosion prevention: 4
Essential oils: 32
Fiber crops: 21
Flower vegetables: 7
Food crops: 454
Forage and fodder crops: 47
Fruit vegetables: 44
Fruits: 227
Green manures: 12
Ground cover plants: 3
Herbs: 69
High altitude crops: 16
Industrial crops: 15
Leaf vegetables: 64
Legumes: 48
Major crops: 89
Marine crops: 6
Medicinal plants: 109
Mediterranean crops: 227
Minor crops: 527
Mushrooms: 13
Non-food crops: 165
Nuts: 18
Ornamental plants: 53
Other categories: 107
Other edible crops: 225
Podded vegetables: 33
Pseudocereals: 4
Root vegetables: 35
Soil improvement: 3
Spices: 45
Staple food: 29
Stem vegetables: 16
Stimulants: 19
Subtropical crops: 484
Sugar crops: 6
Temperate crops: 296
Timber: 10
Tropical crops: 374
Tuber vegetables: 15
Vegetable oils: 24
Vegetables: 196
Wild-harvested crops: 68