Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 1.46 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, cocoa beans — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) stood at 1.46 million ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 22.2% on the previous year and up 39.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 1.46 million ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 468,320 ha, in 1993.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 483,900 ha | — |
| 1962 | 489,185 ha | +1.1% |
| 1963 | 488,660 ha | -0.1% |
| 1964 | 495,906 ha | +1.5% |
| 1965 | 495,835 ha | -0.0% |
| 1966 | 516,210 ha | +4.1% |
| 1967 | 503,398 ha | -2.5% |
| 1968 | 500,780 ha | -0.5% |
| 1969 | 504,332 ha | +0.7% |
| 1970 | 533,470 ha | +5.8% |
| 1971 | 545,001 ha | +2.2% |
| 1972 | 475,527 ha | -12.7% |
| 1973 | 504,952 ha | +6.2% |
| 1974 | 492,367 ha | -2.5% |
| 1975 | 502,130 ha | +2.0% |
| 1976 | 557,906 ha | +11.1% |
| 1977 | 579,656 ha | +3.9% |
| 1978 | 587,527 ha | +1.4% |
| 1979 | 595,086 ha | +1.3% |
| 1980 | 608,470 ha | +2.2% |
| 1981 | 601,106 ha | -1.2% |
| 1982 | 597,422 ha | -0.6% |
| 1983 | 609,865 ha | +2.1% |
| 1984 | 610,515 ha | +0.1% |
| 1985 | 625,755 ha | +2.5% |
| 1986 | 611,209 ha | -2.3% |
| 1987 | 644,551 ha | +5.5% |
| 1988 | 610,442 ha | -5.3% |
| 1989 | 629,231 ha | +3.1% |
| 1990 | 564,923 ha | -10.2% |
| 1991 | 538,253 ha | -4.7% |
| 1992 | 476,847 ha | -11.4% |
| 1993 | 468,320 ha | -1.8% |
| 1994 | 503,785 ha | +7.6% |
| 1995 | 512,188 ha | +1.7% |
| 1996 | 542,588 ha | +5.9% |
| 1997 | 523,750 ha | -3.5% |
| 1998 | 558,888 ha | +6.7% |
| 1999 | 534,836 ha | -4.3% |
| 2000 | 544,097 ha | +1.7% |
| 2001 | 526,625 ha | -3.2% |
| 2002 | 520,320 ha | -1.2% |
| 2003 | 622,347 ha | +19.6% |
| 2004 | 675,370 ha | +8.5% |
| 2005 | 639,235 ha | -5.4% |
| 2006 | 711,095 ha | +11.2% |
| 2007 | 847,687 ha | +19.2% |
| 2008 | 931,091 ha | +9.8% |
| 2009 | 943,540 ha | +1.3% |
| 2010 | 1.05 million ha | +11.0% |
| 2011 | 1.16 million ha | +10.5% |
| 2012 | 992,016 ha | -14.3% |
| 2013 | 966,432 ha | -2.6% |
| 2014 | 1.05 million ha | +8.2% |
| 2015 | 1.07 million ha | +2.1% |
| 2016 | 1.40 million ha | +31.3% |
| 2017 | 1.21 million ha | -13.7% |
| 2018 | 1.11 million ha | -8.0% |
| 2019 | 1.06 million ha | -4.6% |
| 2020 | 1.11 million ha | +4.7% |
| 2021 | 1.09 million ha | -1.7% |
| 2022 | 1.14 million ha | +4.0% |
| 2023 | 1.19 million ha | +5.0% |
| 2024 | 1.46 million ha | +22.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 497,578 ha | 483,900 ha | 516,210 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 537,362 ha | 475,527 ha | 595,086 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 614,857 ha | 597,422 ha | 644,551 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 522,438 ha | 468,320 ha | 564,923 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 696,141 ha | 520,320 ha | 943,540 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.11 million ha | 966,432 ha | 1.40 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.20 million ha | 1.09 million ha | 1.46 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
- 5 Brazil 617,168 ha compare
- 5 Côte d'Ivoire 3.81 million ha compare
- 5 Melanesia 127,342 ha compare
- 6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 84,675 ha compare
- 6 Ecuador 541,588 ha compare
- 7 Sierra Leone 198,714 ha compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 77,391 ha compare
- 8 Colombia 197,709 ha compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 20,907 ha compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 10,397 ha compare
- 9 Peru 189,602 ha compare
- 10 Liberia 182,495 ha compare
- 10 Viet Nam 3,122 ha compare
- 11 Papua New Guinea 113,593 ha compare
- 11 Polynesia 2,632 ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 1.46 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 1.46 million ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 468,320 ha in 1993.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 8th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 39.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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.