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...

Countries reporting
98
Highest
253,044 ha
Mexico
Lowest
0 ha
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
Median
324.5 ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,481

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

About this data

Indicator
Avocados — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
130 places, 5,481 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.