Avocados — Area harvested by country
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...
What the numbers show
Avocados — Area harvested is currently reported for 98 countries. The highest value is 253,044 ha in Mexico; the lowest is 0 ha in Netherlands (Kingdom of the).
The median across all reporting countries is 324.5 ha, and the mean is 11,161 ha.
Over the past decade 58 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Türkiye (up 1,208.7%), and the largest decrease in Guatemala (down 50.8%).
Avocados — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mexico | 253,044 ha | 2024 | up 64.6% | volatile |
| 2 | Colombia | 120,941 ha | 2024 | up 250.4% | volatile |
| 3 | Caribbean | 91,541 ha | 2024 | up 61.0% | volatile |
| 4 | Indonesia | 67,984 ha | 2024 | up 203.9% | volatile |
| 5 | Peru | 63,111 ha | 2024 | up 108.2% | volatile |
| 6 | Dominican Republic | 55,817 ha | 2024 | up 43.9% | volatile |
| 7 | Haiti | 34,225 ha | 2024 | up 107.4% | volatile |
| 8 | Chile | 33,025 ha | 2024 | up 4.1% | volatile |
| 9 | Kenya | 32,000 ha | 2024 | up 176.3% | volatile |
| 10 | Australia and New Zealand | 29,630 ha | 2024 | up 129.8% | volatile |
| 11 | Ethiopia | 29,595 ha | 2024 | up 114.5% | volatile |
| 12 | Brazil | 25,310 ha | 2024 | up 167.8% | falling |
| 13 | Australia | 25,293 ha | 2024 | up 181.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Malawi | 23,247 ha | 2024 | up 25.7% | rising |
| 15 | Spain | 21,290 ha | 2024 | up 95.4% | volatile |
| 16 | Cameroon | 17,048 ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 17 | Viet Nam | 16,744 ha | 2024 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 18 | China | 15,106 ha | 2024 | down 13.7% | rising |
| 18 | China, mainland | 15,106 ha | 2024 | down 13.7% | rising |
| 20 | Israel | 14,368 ha | 2024 | up 87.7% | volatile |
| 21 | Morocco | 11,770 ha | 2024 | up 352.9% | volatile |
| 22 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 11,047 ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | falling |
| 23 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 9,484 ha | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 24 | Ecuador | 6,820 ha | 2024 | up 57.5% | rising |
| 25 | Lebanon | 6,800 ha | 2024 | up 1,005.7% | volatile |
| 26 | Türkiye | 5,850 ha | 2024 | up 1,208.7% | volatile |
| 27 | Philippines | 5,443 ha | 2024 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 28 | Côte d'Ivoire | 5,235 ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 29 | Guatemala | 4,922 ha | 2024 | down 50.8% | volatile |
| 30 | New Zealand | 4,337 ha | 2024 | up 11.4% | volatile |
| 31 | Portugal | 4,250 ha | 2024 | up 114.6% | volatile |
| 32 | Sri Lanka | 3,603 ha | 2024 | up 117.7% | volatile |
| 33 | Angola | 3,573 ha | 2024 | down 39.6% | falling |
| 34 | Madagascar | 3,424 ha | 2024 | up 4.6% | volatile |
| 35 | Zimbabwe | 2,718 ha | 2024 | up 149.1% | volatile |
| 36 | Costa Rica | 2,621 ha | 2024 | up 38.8% | rising |
| 37 | Paraguay | 2,487 ha | 2024 | down 8.5% | flat |
| 38 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 2,305 ha | 2024 | up 0.9% | volatile |
| 39 | Ghana | 2,086 ha | 2024 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 40 | Rwanda | 1,354 ha | 2024 | up 108.3% | rising |
| 41 | Congo | 1,232 ha | 2024 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 42 | Greece | 1,100 ha | 2024 | up 280.6% | volatile |
| 43 | El Salvador | 910 ha | 2024 | up 40.0% | volatile |
| 44 | Melanesia | 724 ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 45 | Argentina | 575 ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 46 | Honduras | 571 ha | 2024 | up 133.1% | volatile |
| 47 | Panama | 423 ha | 2024 | down 9.6% | falling |
| 48 | Jamaica | 362 ha | 2024 | down 9.5% | falling |
| 49 | Timor-Leste | 344 ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 50 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 305 ha | 2024 | up 1.7% | flat |
| 51 | Cuba | 276 ha | 2024 | down 4.8% | falling |
| 52 | Puerto Rico | 259 ha | 2024 | up 51.5% | falling |
| 53 | Cyprus | 220 ha | 2024 | up 139.1% | rising |
| 54 | Dominica | 215 ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 55 | France | 190 ha | 2024 | down 33.1% | volatile |
| 56 | Palestine | 172 ha | 2022 | up 616.7% | volatile |
| 57 | Eswatini | 148 ha | 2024 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 58 | Polynesia | 146 ha | 2024 | up 82.5% | falling |
| 59 | Guyana | 143 ha | 2024 | up 31.2% | volatile |
| 60 | Grenada | 133 ha | 2024 | down 50.0% | rising |
| 61 | Bhutan | 114 ha | 2024 | up 356.0% | volatile |
| 62 | Bahamas | 112 ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 63 | Martinique | 110 ha | 2006 | up 4.8% | volatile |
| 64 | Barbados | 105 ha | 2024 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 65 | French Polynesia | 93 ha | 2024 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 66 | Malaysia | 61 ha | 2024 | up 22.0% | falling |
| 67 | Samoa | 48 ha | 2024 | up 9.1% | falling |
| 68 | French Guiana | 34 ha | 2006 | down 49.3% | volatile |
| 69 | Saint Lucia | 33 ha | 2024 | up 26.9% | falling |
| 70 | Tunisia | 31 ha | 2024 | up 6.9% | rising |
| 71 | Fiji | 24 ha | 2024 | — | falling |
| 72 | Guadeloupe | 20 ha | 2006 | up 5.3% | volatile |
| 73 | Suriname | 8 ha | 2024 | up 100.0% | rising |
| 74 | Cook Islands | 5 ha | 2024 | unchanged | volatile |
| 75 | Trinidad and Tobago | 4 ha | 2024 | down 20.0% | volatile |
| 76 | Seychelles | 1 ha | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 77 | Austria | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Belgium | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Bulgaria | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Czechia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Germany | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Denmark | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Estonia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Finland | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Croatia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Hungary | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Ireland | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Italy | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Lithuania | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Luxembourg | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Latvia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Malta | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Poland | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Romania | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Slovakia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Slovenia | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Sweden | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
| 77 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 0 ha | 2024 | — | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 1.00 million ha
- Americas 641,256 ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 292,454 ha
- South America 265,771 ha
- Central America 262,491 ha
- Africa 168,915 ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 155,557 ha
- Asia 136,777 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 106,477 ha
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 92,950 ha
- Eastern Africa 92,383 ha
- South-eastern Asia 90,576 ha
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.