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

Total crops in the database: 652
- Orders: 48
- Families: 119
- Genera: 382

Crop names in different languages

Total names in the database: 7637
- Scientific names and synonyms: 837
- English: 2043
- Dutch: 983
- Spanish: 985
- French: 993
- German: 1224
- Italian: 475
- Other: 97

Crops by category

Alcohol production: 11
Alcoholic drinks: 12
Algae: 2
Aphrodisiacs: 8
Botanical pesticides: 5
Bulb vegetables: 4
Cereals: 26
Corm vegetables: 4
Cover crops: 3
Cut flowers: 11
Dye crops: 10
Edible seeds: 18
Energy crops: 13
Erosion prevention: 4
Essential oils: 31
Fiber crops: 20
Flower vegetables: 8
Food crops: 429
Forage and fodder crops: 47
Fruit vegetables: 48
Fruits: 224
Green manures: 12
Herbs: 68
Industrial crops: 14
Leaf vegetables: 64
Legumes: 48
Medicinal plants: 107
Mushrooms: 14
Nuts: 18
Ornamental plants: 43
Podded vegetables: 33
Pseudocereals: 4
Root vegetables: 34
Soil improvement: 3
Spices: 46
Staple food: 29
Stem vegetables: 15
Stimulants: 20
Subtropical crops: 134
Sugar crops: 6
Temperate crops: 211
Timber: 8
Tropical crops: 321
Tuber vegetables: 15
Vegetable oils: 25
Vegetables: 191