Melanesia vs Sierra Leone: Cocoa beans — Area harvested
Cocoa beans — Area harvested over time
- Melanesia
- Sierra Leone
How they compare
Sierra Leone currently reports 198,714 ha against 127,342 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 71,372 ha.
That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.6 times Melanesia's.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Melanesia ahead.
Melanesia ranks 5th and Sierra Leone ranks 7th of 14 countries.
Melanesia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Sierra Leone | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 43,479 ha | 8,556 ha | 34,923 ha | Melanesia |
| 1970s | 71,616 ha | 15,200 ha | 56,416 ha | Melanesia |
| 1980s | 90,508 ha | 40,500 ha | 50,008 ha | Melanesia |
| 1990s | 99,103 ha | 35,621 ha | 63,482 ha | Melanesia |
| 2000s | 122,838 ha | 35,500 ha | 87,338 ha | Melanesia |
| 2010s | 114,070 ha | 64,118 ha | 49,952 ha | Melanesia |
| 2020s | 120,937 ha | 91,237 ha | 29,699 ha | Melanesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher cocoa beans — area harvested, Melanesia or Sierra Leone?
- Sierra Leone, at 198,714 ha against 127,342 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in cocoa beans — area harvested between Melanesia and Sierra Leone?
- 71,372 ha, with Sierra Leone ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Sierra Leone?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and Sierra Leone rank globally for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 5th and Sierra Leone ranks 7th of 14 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.