Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Area in Malaysia
Malaysia: Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Area was 4,528 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Area in Malaysia, 1990–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Malaysia recorded 4,528 ha for chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area in 2024. That is the highest value across all 35 years on record.
The figure is up 28.7% on the previous year and up 26.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area in Malaysia peaked at 4,528 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,700 ha, in 1990.
Malaysia ranks 38th of 128 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 35 years of available data.
Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Area in Malaysia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1,700 ha | — |
| 1991 | 1,700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 1,700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 1,800 ha | +5.9% |
| 1994 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 2,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1997 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 2,200 ha | +10.0% |
| 2000 | 2,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 2,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 2,400 ha | +9.1% |
| 2003 | 2,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 2,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 2,500 ha | +4.2% |
| 2006 | 2,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 2,898 ha | +15.9% |
| 2008 | 2,712 ha | -6.4% |
| 2009 | 2,594 ha | -4.4% |
| 2010 | 2,971 ha | +14.5% |
| 2011 | 2,597 ha | -12.6% |
| 2012 | 2,856 ha | +10.0% |
| 2013 | 4,104 ha | +43.7% |
| 2014 | 3,582 ha | -12.7% |
| 2015 | 2,915 ha | -18.6% |
| 2016 | 3,176 ha | +9.0% |
| 2017 | 2,835 ha | -10.7% |
| 2018 | 2,390 ha | -15.7% |
| 2019 | 2,844 ha | +19.0% |
| 2020 | 2,967 ha | +4.3% |
| 2021 | 4,175 ha | +40.7% |
| 2022 | 3,950 ha | -5.4% |
| 2023 | 3,518 ha | -10.9% |
| 2024 | 4,528 ha | +28.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1,870 ha | 1,700 ha | 2,200 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,480 ha | 2,200 ha | 2,898 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,027 ha | 2,390 ha | 4,104 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,828 ha | 2,967 ha | 4,528 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area in Malaysia?
- Chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area in Malaysia was 4,528 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area recorded in Malaysia?
- The highest recorded value was 4,528 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area recorded in Malaysia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,700 ha in 1990.
- How does Malaysia rank for chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area?
- Malaysia ranks 38th out of 128 countries with data for 2024.
- Is chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area rising or falling in Malaysia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 26.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malaysia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.