Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guatemala
Guatemala: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 4,533 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guatemala, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cocoa beans — area harvested in Guatemala is 4,533 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and up 6.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Guatemala peaked at 8,500 ha in 1978 and was at its lowest, 1,400 ha, in 1961.
Guatemala ranks 37th of 64 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,644 ha | 1,400 ha | 2,400 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,160 ha | 1,400 ha | 8,500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,463 ha | 2,729 ha | 4,700 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,559 ha | 4,480 ha | 4,700 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,804 ha | 3,145 ha | 4,550 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,286 ha | 3,984 ha | 4,526 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,538 ha | 4,522 ha | 4,561 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guatemala
More agriculture & rural data for Guatemala
- Agriculture share gdp 9.55 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.55 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 43.7% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 8.17 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 11.78 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.84 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Guatemala?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Guatemala was 4,533 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Guatemala?
- The highest recorded value was 8,500 ha in 1978.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Guatemala?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,400 ha in 1961.
- How does Guatemala rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Guatemala ranks 37th out of 64 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Guatemala?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guatemala 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.