Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Angola
Angola: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 2,894 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Angola, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Angola recorded 2,894 ha for cocoa beans — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 6.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Angola peaked at 4,000 ha in 1970 and was at its lowest, 1,400 ha, in 1963.
Angola ranks 33rd of 53 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.
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Angola, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,600 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,400 ha | -12.5% |
| 1964 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 2,000 ha | +42.9% |
| 1969 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 4,000 ha | +100.0% |
| 1971 | 2,100 ha | -47.5% |
| 1972 | 2,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 3,000 ha | +42.9% |
| 1974 | 2,100 ha | -30.0% |
| 1975 | 2,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 2,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 2,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,900 ha | -9.5% |
| 1979 | 1,900 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,900 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 1,900 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 1,900 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 1,900 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 1,800 ha | -5.3% |
| 1985 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 1,762 ha | -2.1% |
| 1991 | 2,471 ha | +40.2% |
| 1992 | 2,200 ha | -11.0% |
| 1993 | 2,586 ha | +17.5% |
| 1994 | 2,602 ha | +0.6% |
| 1995 | 2,605 ha | +0.1% |
| 1996 | 2,589 ha | -0.6% |
| 1997 | 2,320 ha | -10.4% |
| 1998 | 1,848 ha | -20.3% |
| 1999 | 1,500 ha | -18.8% |
| 2000 | 2,200 ha | +46.7% |
| 2001 | 2,083 ha | -5.3% |
| 2002 | 2,100 ha | +0.8% |
| 2003 | 2,200 ha | +4.8% |
| 2004 | 2,158 ha | -1.9% |
| 2005 | 2,266 ha | +5.0% |
| 2006 | 2,400 ha | +5.9% |
| 2007 | 2,520 ha | +5.0% |
| 2008 | 2,578 ha | +2.3% |
| 2009 | 2,632 ha | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 2,682 ha | +1.9% |
| 2011 | 2,730 ha | +1.8% |
| 2012 | 2,500 ha | -8.4% |
| 2013 | 2,550 ha | +2.0% |
| 2014 | 2,726 ha | +6.9% |
| 2015 | 2,838 ha | +4.1% |
| 2016 | 2,705 ha | -4.7% |
| 2017 | 2,757 ha | +1.9% |
| 2018 | 2,843 ha | +3.1% |
| 2019 | 2,834 ha | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 2,830 ha | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 2,869 ha | +1.4% |
| 2022 | 2,882 ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 2,888 ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 2,894 ha | +0.2% |
Angola compared with similar countries
- Angola's 2,894 ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 34,605 ha, 8% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
- Angola's 2,894 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 47,388 ha, 6% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Angola changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | +100.0% | 2,000 ha | 4,000 ha |
| 1971 | -47.5% | 4,000 ha | 2,100 ha |
| 2000 | +46.7% | 1,500 ha | 2,200 ha |
| 1968 | +42.9% | 1,400 ha | 2,000 ha |
| 1973 | +42.9% | 2,100 ha | 3,000 ha |
| 1991 | +40.2% | 1,762 ha | 2,471 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,578 ha | 1,400 ha | 2,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,340 ha | 1,900 ha | 4,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,840 ha | 1,800 ha | 1,900 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,248 ha | 1,500 ha | 2,605 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,314 ha | 2,083 ha | 2,632 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,716 ha | 2,500 ha | 2,843 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,873 ha | 2,830 ha | 2,894 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Angola
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 38.81 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2524 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 789.91 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2141 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2854 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 25.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 25.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Angola?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Angola was 2,894 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Angola?
- The highest recorded value was 4,000 ha in 1970.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Angola?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,400 ha in 1963.
- How does Angola rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Angola ranks 33rd out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Angola?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Angola data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cocoa beans — 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.