Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Ecuador
Ecuador: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 541,588 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Ecuador recorded 541,588 ha for cocoa beans — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.8% on the previous year and up 45.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Ecuador peaked at 543,547 ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 163,000 ha, in 1964.
Ecuador ranks 7th of 64 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 209,595 ha | 163,000 ha | 240,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 235,432 ha | 213,106 ha | 287,190 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 292,962 ha | 265,051 ha | 327,980 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 324,217 ha | 300,119 ha | 349,370 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 371,985 ha | 336,358 ha | 429,547 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 430,580 ha | 360,025 ha | 525,435 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 527,659 ha | 509,179 ha | 543,547 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ecuador
More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 6.70 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.64 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.59 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Ecuador?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Ecuador was 541,588 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 543,547 ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 163,000 ha in 1964.
- How does Ecuador rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Ecuador ranks 7th out of 64 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 45.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.