Avocados — Area harvested in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico: Avocados — Area harvested was 259 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Avocados — Area harvested in Puerto Rico, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Puerto Rico recorded 259 ha for avocados — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 6.2% on the previous year and up 51.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, avocados — area harvested in Puerto Rico peaked at 1,665 ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 164 ha, in 2015.
Puerto Rico ranks 45th of 91 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Avocados — Area harvested in Puerto Rico, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 940 ha | — |
| 1962 | 900 ha | -4.3% |
| 1963 | 950 ha | +5.6% |
| 1964 | 980 ha | +3.2% |
| 1965 | 980 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 980 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 980 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 1,000 ha | +2.0% |
| 1969 | 578 ha | -42.2% |
| 1970 | 1,050 ha | +81.7% |
| 1971 | 1,050 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 980 ha | -6.7% |
| 1973 | 1,030 ha | +5.1% |
| 1974 | 870 ha | -15.5% |
| 1975 | 1,050 ha | +20.7% |
| 1976 | 1,050 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 920 ha | -12.4% |
| 1978 | 980 ha | +6.5% |
| 1979 | 1,000 ha | +2.0% |
| 1980 | 900 ha | -10.0% |
| 1981 | 900 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 1,020 ha | +13.3% |
| 1983 | 1,020 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 1,020 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 1,020 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 1,050 ha | +2.9% |
| 1987 | 1,050 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 1,080 ha | +2.9% |
| 1989 | 1,050 ha | -2.8% |
| 1990 | 1,030 ha | -1.9% |
| 1991 | 1,102 ha | +7.0% |
| 1992 | 1,020 ha | -7.4% |
| 1993 | 1,050 ha | +2.9% |
| 1994 | 900 ha | -14.3% |
| 1995 | 800 ha | -11.1% |
| 1996 | 700 ha | -12.5% |
| 1997 | 686 ha | -2.0% |
| 1998 | 635 ha | -7.4% |
| 1999 | 610 ha | -3.9% |
| 2000 | 690 ha | +13.1% |
| 2001 | 650 ha | -5.8% |
| 2002 | 900 ha | +38.5% |
| 2003 | 880 ha | -2.2% |
| 2004 | 1,665 ha | +89.2% |
| 2005 | 714 ha | -57.1% |
| 2006 | 756 ha | +5.9% |
| 2007 | 789 ha | +4.4% |
| 2008 | 777 ha | -1.5% |
| 2009 | 621 ha | -20.1% |
| 2010 | 551 ha | -11.3% |
| 2011 | 490 ha | -11.1% |
| 2012 | 313 ha | -36.1% |
| 2013 | 250 ha | -20.1% |
| 2014 | 171 ha | -31.6% |
| 2015 | 164 ha | -4.1% |
| 2016 | 243 ha | +48.2% |
| 2017 | 209 ha | -14.0% |
| 2018 | 204 ha | -2.4% |
| 2019 | 231 ha | +13.2% |
| 2020 | 251 ha | +8.7% |
| 2021 | 264 ha | +5.2% |
| 2022 | 346 ha | +31.1% |
| 2023 | 276 ha | -20.2% |
| 2024 | 259 ha | -6.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 920.89 ha | 578 ha | 1,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 998 ha | 870 ha | 1,050 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,011 ha | 900 ha | 1,080 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 853.3 ha | 610 ha | 1,102 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 844.2 ha | 621 ha | 1,665 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 282.6 ha | 164 ha | 551 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 279.2 ha | 251 ha | 346 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.4415 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0069 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 278.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -2.05 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.0566 units per person (2025)
- Rural population 180,246 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.6858 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 887.20 million current US$ (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 0.6858 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is avocados — area harvested in Puerto Rico?
- Avocados — area harvested in Puerto Rico was 259 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest avocados — area harvested recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The highest recorded value was 1,665 ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest avocados — area harvested recorded in Puerto Rico?
- The lowest recorded value was 164 ha in 2015.
- How does Puerto Rico rank for avocados — area harvested?
- Puerto Rico ranks 45th out of 91 countries with data for 2024.
- Is avocados — area harvested rising or falling in Puerto Rico?
- Over the last ten years it is up 51.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Puerto Rico 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.