Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Area in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Area was 15,154 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Area in Sri Lanka, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area in Sri Lanka is 15,154 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 9.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area in Sri Lanka peaked at 54,582 ha in 1976 and was at its lowest, 10,937 ha, in 2017.
Sri Lanka ranks 19th of 128 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Area in Sri Lanka, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 11,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 12,000 ha | +9.1% |
| 1963 | 13,000 ha | +8.3% |
| 1964 | 14,402 ha | +10.8% |
| 1965 | 19,669 ha | +36.6% |
| 1966 | 19,180 ha | -2.5% |
| 1967 | 23,888 ha | +24.5% |
| 1968 | 24,953 ha | +4.5% |
| 1969 | 22,077 ha | -11.5% |
| 1970 | 20,249 ha | -8.3% |
| 1971 | 23,379 ha | +15.5% |
| 1972 | 34,592 ha | +48.0% |
| 1973 | 44,693 ha | +29.2% |
| 1974 | 53,289 ha | +19.2% |
| 1975 | 49,495 ha | -7.1% |
| 1976 | 54,582 ha | +10.3% |
| 1977 | 51,706 ha | -5.3% |
| 1978 | 50,197 ha | -2.9% |
| 1979 | 35,960 ha | -28.4% |
| 1980 | 38,321 ha | +6.6% |
| 1981 | 40,990 ha | +7.0% |
| 1982 | 37,143 ha | -9.4% |
| 1983 | 34,760 ha | -6.4% |
| 1984 | 29,410 ha | -15.4% |
| 1985 | 30,860 ha | +4.9% |
| 1986 | 35,305 ha | +14.4% |
| 1987 | 25,128 ha | -28.8% |
| 1988 | 27,130 ha | +8.0% |
| 1989 | 24,350 ha | -10.2% |
| 1990 | 30,660 ha | +25.9% |
| 1991 | 28,975 ha | -5.5% |
| 1992 | 29,949 ha | +3.4% |
| 1993 | 34,600 ha | +15.5% |
| 1994 | 36,516 ha | +5.5% |
| 1995 | 36,000 ha | -1.4% |
| 1996 | 26,098 ha | -27.5% |
| 1997 | 24,138 ha | -7.5% |
| 1998 | 21,632 ha | -10.4% |
| 1999 | 21,750 ha | +0.5% |
| 2000 | 19,834 ha | -8.8% |
| 2001 | 17,350 ha | -12.5% |
| 2002 | 16,290 ha | -6.1% |
| 2003 | 18,740 ha | +15.0% |
| 2004 | 16,640 ha | -11.2% |
| 2005 | 20,430 ha | +22.8% |
| 2006 | 17,900 ha | -12.4% |
| 2007 | 14,090 ha | -21.3% |
| 2008 | 14,800 ha | +5.0% |
| 2009 | 13,560 ha | -8.4% |
| 2010 | 13,260 ha | -2.2% |
| 2011 | 13,310 ha | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 14,730 ha | +10.7% |
| 2013 | 14,440 ha | -2.0% |
| 2014 | 13,805 ha | -4.4% |
| 2015 | 13,484 ha | -2.3% |
| 2016 | 15,267 ha | +13.2% |
| 2017 | 10,937 ha | -28.4% |
| 2018 | 13,553 ha | +23.9% |
| 2019 | 10,981 ha | -19.0% |
| 2020 | 17,279 ha | +57.4% |
| 2021 | 15,636 ha | -9.5% |
| 2022 | 15,112 ha | -3.4% |
| 2023 | 15,144 ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 15,154 ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17,797 ha | 11,000 ha | 24,953 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 41,814 ha | 20,249 ha | 54,582 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 32,340 ha | 24,350 ha | 40,990 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 29,032 ha | 21,632 ha | 36,516 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,963 ha | 13,560 ha | 20,430 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,377 ha | 10,937 ha | 15,267 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,665 ha | 15,112 ha | 17,279 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0836 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.3 current US$ per person (2025)
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- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.4% (2025)
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- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area in Sri Lanka?
- Chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area in Sri Lanka was 15,154 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 Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 54,582 ha in 1976.
- What is the lowest chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,937 ha in 2017.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area?
- Sri Lanka ranks 19th out of 128 countries with data for 2024.
- Is chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — area rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.