Chicory roots — Area harvested in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Chicory roots — Area harvested was 763 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Chicory roots — Area harvested in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Southern Africa recorded 763 ha for chicory roots — area harvested in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is down 23.5% on the previous year and down 13.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, chicory roots — area harvested in Southern Africa peaked at 8,255 ha in 1979 and was at its lowest, 763 ha, in 2024.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Chicory roots — Area harvested in Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,000 ha | -20.0% |
| 1963 | 4,500 ha | +12.5% |
| 1964 | 7,000 ha | +55.6% |
| 1965 | 6,595 ha | -5.8% |
| 1966 | 8,000 ha | +21.3% |
| 1967 | 3,000 ha | -62.5% |
| 1968 | 5,000 ha | +66.7% |
| 1969 | 6,000 ha | +20.0% |
| 1970 | 5,000 ha | -16.7% |
| 1971 | 5,778 ha | +15.6% |
| 1972 | 3,468 ha | -40.0% |
| 1973 | 3,380 ha | -2.5% |
| 1974 | 5,410 ha | +60.1% |
| 1975 | 6,790 ha | +25.5% |
| 1976 | 7,100 ha | +4.6% |
| 1977 | 8,100 ha | +14.1% |
| 1978 | 6,400 ha | -21.0% |
| 1979 | 8,255 ha | +29.0% |
| 1980 | 3,500 ha | -57.6% |
| 1981 | 7,100 ha | +102.9% |
| 1982 | 7,800 ha | +9.9% |
| 1983 | 5,400 ha | -30.8% |
| 1984 | 6,200 ha | +14.8% |
| 1985 | 7,400 ha | +19.4% |
| 1986 | 6,700 ha | -9.5% |
| 1987 | 8,100 ha | +20.9% |
| 1988 | 6,300 ha | -22.2% |
| 1989 | 4,600 ha | -27.0% |
| 1990 | 4,258 ha | -7.4% |
| 1991 | 4,400 ha | +3.3% |
| 1992 | 4,200 ha | -4.5% |
| 1993 | 4,250 ha | +1.2% |
| 1994 | 4,200 ha | -1.2% |
| 1995 | 4,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 4,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 4,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 4,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 4,100 ha | -2.4% |
| 2000 | 4,200 ha | +2.4% |
| 2001 | 4,100 ha | -2.4% |
| 2002 | 4,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 4,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 4,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 4,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 4,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 4,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 4,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 4,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 4,500 ha | +9.8% |
| 2011 | 5,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 2012 | 5,200 ha | +4.0% |
| 2013 | 3,000 ha | -42.3% |
| 2014 | 880 ha | -70.7% |
| 2015 | 1,264 ha | +43.6% |
| 2016 | 1,544 ha | +22.2% |
| 2017 | 1,205 ha | -22.0% |
| 2018 | 2,422 ha | +101.0% |
| 2019 | 2,421 ha | -0.0% |
| 2020 | 1,945 ha | -19.7% |
| 2021 | 2,132 ha | +9.6% |
| 2022 | 2,140 ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 998 ha | -53.4% |
| 2024 | 763 ha | -23.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,455 ha | 3,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,968 ha | 3,380 ha | 8,255 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,310 ha | 3,500 ha | 8,100 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,221 ha | 4,100 ha | 4,400 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,110 ha | 4,100 ha | 4,200 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,744 ha | 880 ha | 5,200 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,596 ha | 763 ha | 2,140 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
- 2 Belgium 6,536 ha compare
- 3 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 3,222 ha compare
- 4 Poland 1,127 ha compare
- 5 France 1,109 ha compare
- 6 South Africa 763 ha compare
- 7 Philippines 571 ha compare
- 8 Ukraine 300 ha compare
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- Poultry Birds — Stocks 183,952 1000 An (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is chicory roots — area harvested in Southern Africa?
- Chicory roots — area harvested in Southern Africa was 763 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest chicory roots — area harvested recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 8,255 ha in 1979.
- What is the lowest chicory roots — area harvested recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 763 ha in 2024.
- How does Southern Africa rank for chicory roots — area harvested?
- Southern Africa ranks 5th out of 16 groups with data for 2024.
- Is chicory roots — area harvested rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Southern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Chicory roots — 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.