Avocados — Area harvested in Ghana
Ghana: Avocados — Area harvested was 2,086 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Avocados — Area harvested in Ghana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Ghana recorded 2,086 ha for avocados — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 9.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, avocados — area harvested in Ghana peaked at 2,108 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 920 ha, in 1990.
Ghana ranks 33rd of 91 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Avocados — Area harvested in Ghana, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 1,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 1,100 ha | +10.0% |
| 1983 | 1,000 ha | -9.1% |
| 1984 | 1,100 ha | +10.0% |
| 1985 | 1,150 ha | +4.5% |
| 1986 | 1,300 ha | +13.0% |
| 1987 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 1,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 920 ha | -29.2% |
| 1991 | 1,298 ha | +41.1% |
| 1992 | 1,315 ha | +1.3% |
| 1993 | 1,332 ha | +1.3% |
| 1994 | 1,342 ha | +0.8% |
| 1995 | 1,344 ha | +0.1% |
| 1996 | 1,370 ha | +1.9% |
| 1997 | 1,385 ha | +1.1% |
| 1998 | 1,400 ha | +1.1% |
| 1999 | 1,414 ha | +1.0% |
| 2000 | 1,433 ha | +1.3% |
| 2001 | 1,450 ha | +1.2% |
| 2002 | 1,442 ha | -0.6% |
| 2003 | 1,471 ha | +2.0% |
| 2004 | 1,489 ha | +1.2% |
| 2005 | 1,513 ha | +1.6% |
| 2006 | 1,500 ha | -0.9% |
| 2007 | 1,650 ha | +10.0% |
| 2008 | 1,683 ha | +2.0% |
| 2009 | 1,719 ha | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 1,762 ha | +2.5% |
| 2011 | 1,821 ha | +3.3% |
| 2012 | 1,900 ha | +4.3% |
| 2013 | 1,885 ha | -0.8% |
| 2014 | 1,900 ha | +0.8% |
| 2015 | 1,932 ha | +1.7% |
| 2016 | 1,974 ha | +2.2% |
| 2017 | 2,011 ha | +1.9% |
| 2018 | 2,047 ha | +1.8% |
| 2019 | 2,080 ha | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 2,108 ha | +1.3% |
| 2021 | 2,078 ha | -1.4% |
| 2022 | 2,089 ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 2,091 ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 2,086 ha | -0.2% |
Ghana compared with similar countries
- Ghana's 2,086 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,402 ha, 87% of the median. (14 countries reporting)
- Ghana's 2,086 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 3,071 ha, 68% of the median. (14 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Avocados — Area harvested in Ghana changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | +41.1% | 920 ha | 1,298 ha |
| 1990 | -29.2% | 1,300 ha | 920 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,155 ha | 1,000 ha | 1,300 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,312 ha | 920 ha | 1,414 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,535 ha | 1,433 ha | 1,719 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,931 ha | 1,762 ha | 2,080 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,090 ha | 2,078 ha | 2,108 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 41.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2128 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 692.99 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4821 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4108 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is avocados — area harvested in Ghana?
- Avocados — area harvested in Ghana was 2,086 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest avocados — area harvested recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 2,108 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest avocados — area harvested recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 920 ha in 1990.
- How does Ghana rank for avocados — area harvested?
- Ghana ranks 33rd out of 91 countries with data for 2024.
- Is avocados — area harvested rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana 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.