Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Colombia
Colombia: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 197,709 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Colombia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Colombia recorded 197,709 ha for cocoa beans — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 3.6% on the previous year and up 48.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Colombia peaked at 197,709 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 33,000 ha, in 1961.
That places Colombia 9th out of 64 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 36,856 ha | 33,000 ha | 41,300 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 54,790 ha | 45,700 ha | 62,700 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 89,379 ha | 64,400 ha | 118,200 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 113,742 ha | 95,413 ha | 125,642 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 83,820 ha | 73,674 ha | 95,167 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 124,008 ha | 95,641 ha | 155,151 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 192,262 ha | 188,371 ha | 197,709 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Colombia
- Agriculture share gdp 9.95 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.95 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 21.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 11.34 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 45.49 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.64 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Colombia?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Colombia was 197,709 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Colombia?
- The highest recorded value was 197,709 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Colombia?
- The lowest recorded value was 33,000 ha in 1961.
- How does Colombia rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Colombia ranks 9th out of 64 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Colombia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 48.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Colombia 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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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.