Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Jamaica
Jamaica: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 722 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Jamaica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Jamaica recorded 722 ha for cocoa beans — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 34.5% on the previous year and down 81.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Jamaica peaked at 8,300 ha in 1964 and was at its lowest, 537 ha, in 2023.
That places Jamaica 52nd out of 64 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,790 ha | 3,850 ha | 8,300 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,930 ha | 3,000 ha | 5,300 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,240 ha | 3,500 ha | 4,600 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,911 ha | 2,800 ha | 6,612 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,932 ha | 1,800 ha | 3,700 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,467 ha | 797 ha | 3,800 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 717 ha | 537 ha | 923 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Jamaica
- Agriculture share gdp 8.74 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.74 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
- Rural population 40.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 1.15 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.99 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 62,998 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Jamaica?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Jamaica was 722 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 8,300 ha in 1964.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 537 ha in 2023.
- How does Jamaica rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Jamaica ranks 52nd out of 64 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 81.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Jamaica 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.