Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guyana
Guyana: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 1,175 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guyana, 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 Guyana is 1,175 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.7% on the previous year and up 1.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Guyana peaked at 1,202 ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 647 ha, in 1973.
That places Guyana 40th out of 53 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guyana, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 700 ha | — |
| 1962 | 785 ha | +12.1% |
| 1963 | 800 ha | +1.9% |
| 1964 | 812 ha | +1.5% |
| 1965 | 817 ha | +0.6% |
| 1966 | 826 ha | +1.1% |
| 1967 | 793 ha | -4.0% |
| 1968 | 796 ha | +0.4% |
| 1969 | 796 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 773 ha | -2.9% |
| 1971 | 777 ha | +0.5% |
| 1972 | 728 ha | -6.3% |
| 1973 | 647 ha | -11.1% |
| 1974 | 730 ha | +12.8% |
| 1975 | 750 ha | +2.7% |
| 1976 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 750 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 780 ha | +4.0% |
| 1987 | 780 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 780 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 800 ha | +2.6% |
| 1990 | 1,000 ha | +25.0% |
| 1991 | 939 ha | -6.1% |
| 1992 | 916 ha | -2.4% |
| 1993 | 894 ha | -2.4% |
| 1994 | 874 ha | -2.2% |
| 1995 | 855 ha | -2.2% |
| 1996 | 838 ha | -2.0% |
| 1997 | 822 ha | -1.9% |
| 1998 | 807 ha | -1.8% |
| 1999 | 793 ha | -1.7% |
| 2000 | 779 ha | -1.8% |
| 2001 | 766 ha | -1.7% |
| 2002 | 750 ha | -2.1% |
| 2003 | 747 ha | -0.4% |
| 2004 | 758 ha | +1.5% |
| 2005 | 781 ha | +3.0% |
| 2006 | 811 ha | +3.8% |
| 2007 | 865 ha | +6.7% |
| 2008 | 909 ha | +5.1% |
| 2009 | 955 ha | +5.1% |
| 2010 | 1,001 ha | +4.8% |
| 2011 | 1,045 ha | +4.4% |
| 2012 | 1,070 ha | +2.4% |
| 2013 | 1,100 ha | +2.8% |
| 2014 | 1,154 ha | +4.9% |
| 2015 | 1,202 ha | +4.2% |
| 2016 | 1,152 ha | -4.2% |
| 2017 | 1,156 ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 1,146 ha | -0.9% |
| 2019 | 1,144 ha | -0.2% |
| 2020 | 1,141 ha | -0.3% |
| 2021 | 1,197 ha | +4.9% |
| 2022 | 1,161 ha | -3.0% |
| 2023 | 1,167 ha | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 1,175 ha | +0.7% |
Guyana compared with similar countries
- Guyana's 1,175 ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 4,533 ha, 26% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Guyana 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | +25.0% | 800 ha | 1,000 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 791.67 ha | 700 ha | 826 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 740.5 ha | 647 ha | 777 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 764 ha | 750 ha | 800 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 873.8 ha | 793 ha | 1,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 812.1 ha | 747 ha | 955 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,117 ha | 1,001 ha | 1,202 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,168 ha | 1,141 ha | 1,197 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guyana
- 37 Trinidad and Tobago 1,930 ha compare
- 38 Gabon 1,815 ha compare
- 39 Sri Lanka 1,689 ha compare
- 41 El Salvador 875 ha compare
- 42 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 826 ha compare
- 43 Jamaica 722 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Guyana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 11.48 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0773 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 2,507 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5708 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7351 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Guyana?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Guyana was 1,175 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Guyana?
- The highest recorded value was 1,202 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Guyana?
- The lowest recorded value was 647 ha in 1973.
- How does Guyana rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Guyana ranks 40th out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Guyana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guyana 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.