Central America vs Peru: Avocados — Area harvested
Avocados — Area harvested over time
- Central America
- Peru
How they compare
Central America currently reports 262,491 ha against 63,111 ha in Peru, a difference of 199,380 ha.
That makes Central America's figure about 4.2 times Peru's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Central America has been ahead every year.
Central America ranks 5th and Peru ranks 4th of 27 groups.
Central America has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Central America | Peru | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18,691 ha | 5,297 ha | 13,394 ha | Central America |
| 1970s | 44,234 ha | 10,165 ha | 34,069 ha | Central America |
| 1980s | 72,661 ha | 7,580 ha | 65,081 ha | Central America |
| 1990s | 99,291 ha | 7,410 ha | 91,881 ha | Central America |
| 2000s | 117,856 ha | 12,074 ha | 105,782 ha | Central America |
| 2010s | 178,954 ha | 31,500 ha | 147,454 ha | Central America |
| 2020s | 249,806 ha | 59,073 ha | 190,733 ha | Central America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher avocados — area harvested, Central America or Peru?
- Central America, at 262,491 ha against 63,111 ha in Peru as of 2024.
- What is the difference in avocados — area harvested between Central America and Peru?
- 199,380 ha, with Central America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Central America and Peru?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Central America and Peru rank globally for avocados — area harvested?
- Central America ranks 5th and Peru ranks 4th of 27 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Avocados — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.