Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Melanesia
Melanesia: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 127,342 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Melanesia, 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 Melanesia is 127,342 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 4.5% on the previous year and up 0.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Melanesia peaked at 158,170 ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 28,824 ha, in 1961.
That places Melanesia 13th out of 64 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 43,479 ha | 28,824 ha | 57,515 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 71,616 ha | 56,579 ha | 85,390 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 90,508 ha | 81,494 ha | 106,374 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 99,103 ha | 82,911 ha | 107,165 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 122,838 ha | 97,877 ha | 158,170 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 114,070 ha | 97,211 ha | 134,206 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 120,937 ha | 116,010 ha | 127,342 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 10 Peru 189,602 ha compare
- 11 Liberia 182,495 ha compare
- 14 Papua New Guinea 113,593 ha compare
- 15 India 111,036 ha compare
- 16 Dominican Republic 103,774 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 2.34 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 1.31 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 8,430 kg/ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 79,382 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Melanesia?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Melanesia was 127,342 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 158,170 ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 28,824 ha in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 13th out of 64 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.