Accordingly to a report on aloe worldwide cultivation published by IASC (International Aloe Science Council), there are close to 23,600 hectares of aloe being cultivated at worldwide level, whereas 19,100 of them are located in the Americas. This report gives the pole position in 2004 data to Mexico with 10,700 hectares, then to Dominican Republic with 3,500 and after that, Venezuela with 3,400 hectares. But numbers are growing at an interesting pace.

As per Aloetrade America and Aloetrade Argentina figures, collected from the Ministries of Agriculture in every country into the region, number of hectares where aloe is growing are on increase year by year. In Mexico, it is forecasted that close to 12,000 hectares are cultivated with aloe plantations, and in Venezuela such figure is close to 5,000 hectares, mainly devoted to aloe sap or aloe paste production, and less for aloe gel. Aloe commercial cultivation is increasing at a fast pace in Argentina, Colombia and Chile, among other south american countries. In Africa, Kenya and Tanzania are doing the most in commercial cultivation in the recent years.

Even when there are some countries mostly associated with aloes plantation such as South Africa, Egypt or Curaçao, the main producing areas at worldwide level of aloe vera (in decreasing order) are the following:

• Mexico (Tamaulipas, Mérida, Yucatán, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Querétaro, Cohauila and Zacatecas states)
• Dominican Republic (largest cultivation at Montecristi province)
• Venezuela (Falcón, Lara, Anzoátegui and Sucre states)
• China
• Thailand
• United States (mostly at Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Florida and Utah states)
• Costa Rica
• India
• South Africa
  
• Malaysia
• Guatemala
• Argentina (mainly aloe saponaria at Córdoba and Santa Fe provinces)
• Australia
• Brazil
• Spain (Canary Islands and Estepona)
• Italy (mostly aloe arborescens at Campania and Sicily)
• Israel
• Peru
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Kenya

South Africa is on the list, but aloe is mainly native and wild, and there is not much volume commercially cultivated. Most of products come from native plants and protected by CITES.

In Latin American, other countries which are increasing rapidly their production areas are Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Commercial cultivation is stable but not growing in Uruguay (mostly in aloe arborescens), Bolivia and Paraguay, as well as into the Netherland Antilles (Aruba and Curaçao).

The main areas of aloe vera gel production are the states of Texas and Louisiana in the United States, Tamaulipas in Mexico, the Dominican Rep., Falcón state in Venezuela, China, Thailand, India, Malaysia, Spain and Australia. Aloin (or rubber of aloe) is produced in the Caribbean, Venezuela, South Africa, Zimbabwe, India and China.

All Aloes love the sun and are perfect for growing in desert places. They need very little water and only very occasional fertilizing. Plants should be over three years old before being used for aloe processing industries.