Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guinea
Guinea: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 50,901 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guinea, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Guinea recorded 50,901 ha for cocoa beans — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.7% on the previous year and up 154.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Guinea peaked at 50,901 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,500 ha, in 1988.
Guinea ranks 17th of 53 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guinea, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 15,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 15,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 10,000 ha | -33.3% |
| 1987 | 10,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 4,500 ha | -55.0% |
| 1989 | 4,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 4,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 4,700 ha | +4.4% |
| 1992 | 4,500 ha | -4.3% |
| 1993 | 8,500 ha | +88.9% |
| 1994 | 9,500 ha | +11.8% |
| 1995 | 9,319 ha | -1.9% |
| 1996 | 9,258 ha | -0.7% |
| 1997 | 13,000 ha | +40.4% |
| 1998 | 19,000 ha | +46.2% |
| 1999 | 12,000 ha | -36.8% |
| 2000 | 8,000 ha | -33.3% |
| 2001 | 4,500 ha | -43.8% |
| 2002 | 5,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 2003 | 16,000 ha | +220.0% |
| 2004 | 17,000 ha | +6.2% |
| 2005 | 27,000 ha | +58.8% |
| 2006 | 26,000 ha | -3.7% |
| 2007 | 20,000 ha | -23.1% |
| 2008 | 25,000 ha | +25.0% |
| 2009 | 20,000 ha | -20.0% |
| 2010 | 22,000 ha | +10.0% |
| 2011 | 42,000 ha | +90.9% |
| 2012 | 25,000 ha | -40.5% |
| 2013 | 20,000 ha | -20.0% |
| 2014 | 20,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 15,527 ha | -22.4% |
| 2016 | 15,468 ha | -0.4% |
| 2017 | 43,007 ha | +178.0% |
| 2018 | 43,491 ha | +1.1% |
| 2019 | 45,236 ha | +4.0% |
| 2020 | 45,246 ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 47,302 ha | +4.5% |
| 2022 | 50,360 ha | +6.5% |
| 2023 | 49,569 ha | -1.6% |
| 2024 | 50,901 ha | +2.7% |
Guinea compared with similar countries
- Guinea's 50,901 ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 34,605 ha, 1.5× the median. (16 countries reporting)
- Guinea's 50,901 ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 47,388 ha, 1.1× the median. (16 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guinea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | +220.0% | 5,000 ha | 16,000 ha |
| 2017 | +178.0% | 15,468 ha | 43,007 ha |
| 2011 | +90.9% | 22,000 ha | 42,000 ha |
| 1993 | +88.9% | 4,500 ha | 8,500 ha |
| 2005 | +58.8% | 17,000 ha | 27,000 ha |
| 1988 | -55.0% | 10,000 ha | 4,500 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15,000 ha | 15,000 ha | 15,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 15,000 ha | 15,000 ha | 15,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,900 ha | 4,500 ha | 15,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,428 ha | 4,500 ha | 19,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,850 ha | 4,500 ha | 27,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 29,173 ha | 15,468 ha | 45,236 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 48,676 ha | 45,246 ha | 50,901 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guinea
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 14.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3129 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 587.44 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6148 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 31.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 31.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.8% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2016)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Guinea?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Guinea was 50,901 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 50,901 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,500 ha in 1988.
- How does Guinea rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Guinea ranks 17th out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 154.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Guinea 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.