Avocados — Area harvested in Ecuador
Ecuador: Avocados — Area harvested was 6,820 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Avocados — Area harvested in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Ecuador recorded 6,820 ha for avocados — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 49.9% on the previous year and up 57.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, avocados — area harvested in Ecuador peaked at 6,820 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,300 ha, in 1961.
That places Ecuador 21st 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 Ecuador, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,300 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,599 ha | +23.0% |
| 1963 | 1,816 ha | +13.6% |
| 1964 | 1,901 ha | +4.7% |
| 1965 | 2,451 ha | +28.9% |
| 1966 | 2,280 ha | -7.0% |
| 1967 | 3,037 ha | +33.2% |
| 1968 | 3,013 ha | -0.8% |
| 1969 | 2,802 ha | -7.0% |
| 1970 | 2,905 ha | +3.7% |
| 1971 | 2,028 ha | -30.2% |
| 1972 | 3,167 ha | +56.2% |
| 1973 | 3,011 ha | -4.9% |
| 1974 | 5,248 ha | +74.3% |
| 1975 | 4,889 ha | -6.8% |
| 1976 | 4,635 ha | -5.2% |
| 1977 | 2,664 ha | -42.5% |
| 1978 | 2,709 ha | +1.7% |
| 1979 | 2,729 ha | +0.7% |
| 1980 | 2,825 ha | +3.5% |
| 1981 | 2,892 ha | +2.4% |
| 1982 | 2,945 ha | +1.8% |
| 1983 | 2,954 ha | +0.3% |
| 1984 | 3,275 ha | +10.9% |
| 1985 | 3,394 ha | +3.6% |
| 1986 | 3,465 ha | +2.1% |
| 1987 | 3,200 ha | -7.6% |
| 1988 | 3,710 ha | +15.9% |
| 1989 | 3,390 ha | -8.6% |
| 1990 | 3,100 ha | -8.6% |
| 1991 | 3,380 ha | +9.0% |
| 1992 | 3,180 ha | -5.9% |
| 1993 | 3,560 ha | +11.9% |
| 1994 | 3,380 ha | -5.1% |
| 1995 | 3,080 ha | -8.9% |
| 1996 | 4,187 ha | +35.9% |
| 1997 | 4,500 ha | +7.5% |
| 1998 | 2,802 ha | -37.7% |
| 1999 | 2,678 ha | -4.4% |
| 2000 | 2,219 ha | -17.1% |
| 2001 | 2,512 ha | +13.2% |
| 2002 | 2,367 ha | -5.8% |
| 2003 | 1,600 ha | -32.4% |
| 2004 | 2,572 ha | +60.8% |
| 2005 | 2,931 ha | +14.0% |
| 2006 | 2,950 ha | +0.6% |
| 2007 | 3,000 ha | +1.7% |
| 2008 | 2,900 ha | -3.3% |
| 2009 | 3,333 ha | +14.9% |
| 2010 | 3,618 ha | +8.6% |
| 2011 | 3,517 ha | -2.8% |
| 2012 | 4,232 ha | +20.3% |
| 2013 | 4,600 ha | +8.7% |
| 2014 | 4,331 ha | -5.8% |
| 2015 | 4,359 ha | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 3,615 ha | -17.1% |
| 2017 | 4,653 ha | +28.7% |
| 2018 | 4,309 ha | -7.4% |
| 2019 | 4,415 ha | +2.5% |
| 2020 | 4,822 ha | +9.2% |
| 2021 | 6,005 ha | +24.5% |
| 2022 | 4,329 ha | -27.9% |
| 2023 | 4,550 ha | +5.1% |
| 2024 | 6,820 ha | +49.9% |
Ecuador compared with similar countries
- Ecuador's 6,820 ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 2,487 ha, 2.7× the median. (25 countries reporting)
- Ecuador's 6,820 ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 573 ha, 11.9× the median. (26 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,244 ha | 1,300 ha | 3,037 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,398 ha | 2,028 ha | 5,248 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,205 ha | 2,825 ha | 3,710 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,385 ha | 2,678 ha | 4,500 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,638 ha | 1,600 ha | 3,333 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,165 ha | 3,517 ha | 4,653 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,305 ha | 4,329 ha | 6,820 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.59 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.097 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 691.36 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4287 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3661 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 9.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is avocados — area harvested in Ecuador?
- Avocados — area harvested in Ecuador was 6,820 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest avocados — area harvested recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 6,820 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest avocados — area harvested recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,300 ha in 1961.
- How does Ecuador rank for avocados — area harvested?
- Ecuador ranks 21st out of 91 countries with data for 2024.
- Is avocados — area harvested rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 57.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.