Cherries — Area harvested in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Cherries — Area harvested was 3,867 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cherries — Area harvested in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cherries — area harvested in Australia and New Zealand is 3,867 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 17.8% on the previous year and up 43.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cherries — area harvested in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 3,867 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,060 ha, in 1980.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 24th of 71 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.
Cherries — Area harvested in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,356 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,363 ha | +0.5% |
| 1963 | 1,482 ha | +8.7% |
| 1964 | 1,499 ha | +1.1% |
| 1965 | 1,441 ha | -3.9% |
| 1966 | 1,537 ha | +6.7% |
| 1967 | 1,569 ha | +2.1% |
| 1968 | 1,520 ha | -3.1% |
| 1969 | 1,511 ha | -0.6% |
| 1970 | 1,573 ha | +4.1% |
| 1971 | 1,651 ha | +5.0% |
| 1972 | 1,792 ha | +8.5% |
| 1973 | 1,742 ha | -2.8% |
| 1974 | 1,667 ha | -4.3% |
| 1975 | 1,532 ha | -8.1% |
| 1976 | 1,469 ha | -4.1% |
| 1977 | 1,397 ha | -4.9% |
| 1978 | 1,360 ha | -2.6% |
| 1979 | 1,332 ha | -2.1% |
| 1980 | 1,060 ha | -20.4% |
| 1981 | 1,318 ha | +24.3% |
| 1982 | 1,362 ha | +3.3% |
| 1983 | 1,320 ha | -3.1% |
| 1984 | 1,335 ha | +1.1% |
| 1985 | 1,366 ha | +2.3% |
| 1986 | 1,420 ha | +4.0% |
| 1987 | 1,548 ha | +9.0% |
| 1988 | 1,789 ha | +15.6% |
| 1989 | 1,809 ha | +1.1% |
| 1990 | 2,003 ha | +10.7% |
| 1991 | 1,687 ha | -15.8% |
| 1992 | 1,772 ha | +5.0% |
| 1993 | 1,793 ha | +1.2% |
| 1994 | 1,809 ha | +0.9% |
| 1995 | 1,898 ha | +4.9% |
| 1996 | 1,894 ha | -0.2% |
| 1997 | 1,920 ha | +1.4% |
| 1998 | 2,050 ha | +6.8% |
| 1999 | 1,820 ha | -11.2% |
| 2000 | 1,915 ha | +5.2% |
| 2001 | 1,873 ha | -2.2% |
| 2002 | 1,870 ha | -0.2% |
| 2003 | 2,219 ha | +18.7% |
| 2004 | 2,195 ha | -1.1% |
| 2005 | 2,144 ha | -2.3% |
| 2006 | 2,150 ha | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 2,320 ha | +7.9% |
| 2008 | 2,282 ha | -1.6% |
| 2009 | 2,997 ha | +31.3% |
| 2010 | 2,633 ha | -12.1% |
| 2011 | 2,300 ha | -12.6% |
| 2012 | 2,561 ha | +11.3% |
| 2013 | 3,554 ha | +38.8% |
| 2014 | 2,690 ha | -24.3% |
| 2015 | 3,095 ha | +15.1% |
| 2016 | 3,572 ha | +15.4% |
| 2017 | 2,465 ha | -31.0% |
| 2018 | 3,569 ha | +44.8% |
| 2019 | 3,233 ha | -9.4% |
| 2020 | 3,102 ha | -4.1% |
| 2021 | 3,840 ha | +23.8% |
| 2022 | 3,632 ha | -5.4% |
| 2023 | 3,283 ha | -9.6% |
| 2024 | 3,867 ha | +17.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,475 ha | 1,356 ha | 1,569 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,552 ha | 1,332 ha | 1,792 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,433 ha | 1,060 ha | 1,809 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,865 ha | 1,687 ha | 2,050 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,196 ha | 1,870 ha | 2,997 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,967 ha | 2,300 ha | 3,572 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,545 ha | 3,102 ha | 3,867 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cherries — area harvested in Australia and New Zealand?
- Cherries — area harvested in Australia and New Zealand was 3,867 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cherries — area harvested recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 3,867 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cherries — area harvested recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,060 ha in 1980.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for cherries — area harvested?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 24th out of 71 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cherries — area harvested rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 43.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cherries — 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.