Avocados — Area harvested in Cameroon
Cameroon: Avocados — Area harvested was 17,048 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Avocados — Area harvested in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for avocados — area harvested in Cameroon is 17,048 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 0.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, avocados — area harvested in Cameroon peaked at 17,048 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,000 ha, in 1961.
That places Cameroon 16th out of 91 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Avocados — Area harvested in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 5,500 ha | +10.0% |
| 1964 | 5,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 6,000 ha | +9.1% |
| 1966 | 6,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 6,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 6,500 ha | +8.3% |
| 1969 | 7,000 ha | +7.7% |
| 1970 | 7,500 ha | +7.1% |
| 1971 | 7,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 8,000 ha | +6.7% |
| 1973 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 8,200 ha | +2.5% |
| 1978 | 8,400 ha | +2.4% |
| 1979 | 8,600 ha | +2.4% |
| 1980 | 8,800 ha | +2.3% |
| 1981 | 9,000 ha | +2.3% |
| 1982 | 9,200 ha | +2.2% |
| 1983 | 9,300 ha | +1.1% |
| 1984 | 9,400 ha | +1.1% |
| 1985 | 9,500 ha | +1.1% |
| 1986 | 9,700 ha | +2.1% |
| 1987 | 9,700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 9,800 ha | +1.0% |
| 1989 | 9,900 ha | +1.0% |
| 1990 | 10,000 ha | +1.0% |
| 1991 | 9,997 ha | -0.0% |
| 1992 | 10,339 ha | +3.4% |
| 1993 | 10,500 ha | +1.6% |
| 1994 | 11,000 ha | +4.8% |
| 1995 | 11,250 ha | +2.3% |
| 1996 | 11,500 ha | +2.2% |
| 1997 | 11,750 ha | +2.2% |
| 1998 | 12,000 ha | +2.1% |
| 1999 | 12,250 ha | +2.1% |
| 2000 | 12,500 ha | +2.0% |
| 2001 | 12,645 ha | +1.2% |
| 2002 | 13,000 ha | +2.8% |
| 2003 | 13,001 ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 13,250 ha | +1.9% |
| 2005 | 13,520 ha | +2.0% |
| 2006 | 14,000 ha | +3.6% |
| 2007 | 13,500 ha | -3.6% |
| 2008 | 14,000 ha | +3.7% |
| 2009 | 13,800 ha | -1.4% |
| 2010 | 14,200 ha | +2.9% |
| 2011 | 14,682 ha | +3.4% |
| 2012 | 14,500 ha | -1.2% |
| 2013 | 16,148 ha | +11.4% |
| 2014 | 16,940 ha | +4.9% |
| 2015 | 16,213 ha | -4.3% |
| 2016 | 16,434 ha | +1.4% |
| 2017 | 16,522 ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 16,575 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 16,678 ha | +0.6% |
| 2020 | 16,855 ha | +1.1% |
| 2021 | 17,034 ha | +1.1% |
| 2022 | 16,947 ha | -0.5% |
| 2023 | 16,999 ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 17,048 ha | +0.3% |
Cameroon compared with similar countries
- Cameroon's 17,048 ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,402 ha, 7.1× the median. (14 countries reporting)
- Cameroon's 17,048 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3,071 ha, 5.6× the median. (14 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,833 ha | 5,000 ha | 7,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,020 ha | 7,500 ha | 8,600 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,430 ha | 8,800 ha | 9,900 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,059 ha | 9,997 ha | 12,250 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,322 ha | 12,500 ha | 14,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,889 ha | 14,200 ha | 16,940 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,977 ha | 16,855 ha | 17,048 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.9031 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1685 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 332.28 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4433 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is avocados — area harvested in Cameroon?
- Avocados — area harvested in Cameroon was 17,048 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest avocados — area harvested recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 17,048 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest avocados — area harvested recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Cameroon rank for avocados — area harvested?
- Cameroon ranks 16th out of 91 countries with data for 2024.
- Is avocados — area harvested rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.