Avocados — Area harvested in Brazil
Brazil: Avocados — Area harvested was 25,310 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Avocados — Area harvested in Brazil, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Brazil recorded 25,310 ha for avocados — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 11.5% on the previous year and up 167.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, avocados — area harvested in Brazil peaked at 25,310 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 8,000 ha, in 1961.
Brazil ranks 11th of 91 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Avocados — Area harvested in Brazil, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,000 ha | +12.5% |
| 1963 | 9,500 ha | +5.6% |
| 1964 | 9,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 10,260 ha | +8.0% |
| 1966 | 11,760 ha | +14.6% |
| 1967 | 12,562 ha | +6.8% |
| 1968 | 13,584 ha | +8.1% |
| 1969 | 14,708 ha | +8.3% |
| 1970 | 15,784 ha | +7.3% |
| 1971 | 16,208 ha | +2.7% |
| 1972 | 16,245 ha | +0.2% |
| 1973 | 16,652 ha | +2.5% |
| 1974 | 17,474 ha | +4.9% |
| 1975 | 18,870 ha | +8.0% |
| 1976 | 18,014 ha | -4.5% |
| 1977 | 19,609 ha | +8.9% |
| 1978 | 18,334 ha | -6.5% |
| 1979 | 18,809 ha | +2.6% |
| 1980 | 18,966 ha | +0.8% |
| 1981 | 21,016 ha | +10.8% |
| 1982 | 21,140 ha | +0.6% |
| 1983 | 21,653 ha | +2.4% |
| 1984 | 22,155 ha | +2.3% |
| 1985 | 19,562 ha | -11.7% |
| 1986 | 18,313 ha | -6.4% |
| 1987 | 17,902 ha | -2.2% |
| 1988 | 17,559 ha | -1.9% |
| 1989 | 17,408 ha | -0.9% |
| 1990 | 17,385 ha | -0.1% |
| 1991 | 15,402 ha | -11.4% |
| 1992 | 15,277 ha | -0.8% |
| 1993 | 15,112 ha | -1.1% |
| 1994 | 14,933 ha | -1.2% |
| 1995 | 13,441 ha | -10.0% |
| 1996 | 13,319 ha | -0.9% |
| 1997 | 13,339 ha | +0.2% |
| 1998 | 13,729 ha | +2.9% |
| 1999 | 12,787 ha | -6.9% |
| 2000 | 12,699 ha | -0.7% |
| 2001 | 11,835 ha | -6.8% |
| 2002 | 12,309 ha | +4.0% |
| 2003 | 10,053 ha | -18.3% |
| 2004 | 11,933 ha | +18.7% |
| 2005 | 11,548 ha | -3.2% |
| 2006 | 10,442 ha | -9.6% |
| 2007 | 9,774 ha | -6.4% |
| 2008 | 9,453 ha | -3.3% |
| 2009 | 8,411 ha | -11.0% |
| 2010 | 11,111 ha | +32.1% |
| 2011 | 10,753 ha | -3.2% |
| 2012 | 9,568 ha | -11.0% |
| 2013 | 9,664 ha | +1.0% |
| 2014 | 9,450 ha | -2.2% |
| 2015 | 10,356 ha | +9.6% |
| 2016 | 10,920 ha | +5.4% |
| 2017 | 12,996 ha | +19.0% |
| 2018 | 14,325 ha | +10.2% |
| 2019 | 15,354 ha | +7.2% |
| 2020 | 16,247 ha | +5.8% |
| 2021 | 18,106 ha | +11.4% |
| 2022 | 19,313 ha | +6.7% |
| 2023 | 22,702 ha | +17.5% |
| 2024 | 25,310 ha | +11.5% |
Brazil compared with similar countries
- Brazil's 25,310 ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 2,487 ha, 10.2× the median. (25 countries reporting)
- Brazil's 25,310 ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 573 ha, 44.2× the median. (26 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,986 ha | 8,000 ha | 14,708 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 17,600 ha | 15,784 ha | 19,609 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 19,567 ha | 17,408 ha | 22,155 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,472 ha | 12,787 ha | 17,385 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,846 ha | 8,411 ha | 12,699 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,450 ha | 9,450 ha | 15,354 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 20,336 ha | 16,247 ha | 25,310 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Brazil
- 8 Kenya 32,000 ha compare
- 8 Türkiye 5,850 ha compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,305 ha compare
- 9 Caribbean 91,541 ha compare
- 9 Australia and New Zealand 29,630 ha compare
- 10 Ethiopia 29,595 ha compare
- 10 Melanesia 724 ha compare
- 11 Timor-Leste 344 ha compare
- 12 Australia 25,293 ha compare
- 12 Polynesia 146 ha compare
- 13 South Africa 24,294 ha compare
- 14 Malawi 23,247 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Brazil
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.36 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0609 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 652.04 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.95 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1182 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is avocados — area harvested in Brazil?
- Avocados — area harvested in Brazil was 25,310 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest avocados — area harvested recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 25,310 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest avocados — area harvested recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Brazil rank for avocados — area harvested?
- Brazil ranks 11th out of 91 countries with data for 2024.
- Is avocados — area harvested rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 167.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Brazil data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Avocados — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.