Ecuador vs Sierra Leone: Cocoa beans — Area harvested
Cocoa beans — Area harvested over time
- Ecuador
- Sierra Leone
How they compare
Ecuador currently reports 541,588 ha against 198,714 ha in Sierra Leone, a difference of 342,874 ha.
That makes Ecuador's figure about 2.7 times Sierra Leone's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Ecuador has been ahead every year.
Ecuador ranks 6th and Sierra Leone ranks 7th of 53 countries.
Ecuador has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Ecuador | Sierra Leone | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 209,595 ha | 8,556 ha | 201,039 ha | Ecuador |
| 1970s | 235,432 ha | 15,200 ha | 220,232 ha | Ecuador |
| 1980s | 292,962 ha | 40,500 ha | 252,462 ha | Ecuador |
| 1990s | 324,217 ha | 35,621 ha | 288,596 ha | Ecuador |
| 2000s | 371,985 ha | 35,500 ha | 336,485 ha | Ecuador |
| 2010s | 430,580 ha | 64,118 ha | 366,462 ha | Ecuador |
| 2020s | 527,659 ha | 91,237 ha | 436,422 ha | Ecuador |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher cocoa beans — area harvested, Ecuador or Sierra Leone?
- Ecuador, at 541,588 ha against 198,714 ha in Sierra Leone as of 2024.
- What is the difference in cocoa beans — area harvested between Ecuador and Sierra Leone?
- 342,874 ha, with Ecuador ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Ecuador and Sierra Leone?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Ecuador and Sierra Leone rank globally for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Ecuador ranks 6th and Sierra Leone ranks 7th of 53 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Cocoa beans — 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.