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.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 28,824 ha | — |
| 1962 | 32,375 ha | +12.3% |
| 1963 | 34,125 ha | +5.4% |
| 1964 | 57,515 ha | +68.5% |
| 1965 | 41,640 ha | -27.6% |
| 1966 | 38,700 ha | -7.1% |
| 1967 | 46,605 ha | +20.4% |
| 1968 | 54,595 ha | +17.1% |
| 1969 | 56,931 ha | +4.3% |
| 1970 | 56,579 ha | -0.6% |
| 1971 | 56,682 ha | +0.2% |
| 1972 | 61,817 ha | +9.1% |
| 1973 | 64,120 ha | +3.7% |
| 1974 | 72,710 ha | +13.4% |
| 1975 | 79,550 ha | +9.4% |
| 1976 | 77,929 ha | -2.0% |
| 1977 | 82,830 ha | +6.3% |
| 1978 | 85,390 ha | +3.1% |
| 1979 | 78,557 ha | -8.0% |
| 1980 | 81,494 ha | +3.7% |
| 1981 | 84,346 ha | +3.5% |
| 1982 | 82,230 ha | -2.5% |
| 1983 | 84,459 ha | +2.7% |
| 1984 | 82,064 ha | -2.8% |
| 1985 | 86,534 ha | +5.4% |
| 1986 | 95,630 ha | +10.5% |
| 1987 | 100,652 ha | +5.3% |
| 1988 | 101,292 ha | +0.6% |
| 1989 | 106,374 ha | +5.0% |
| 1990 | 103,911 ha | -2.3% |
| 1991 | 92,901 ha | -10.6% |
| 1992 | 103,437 ha | +11.3% |
| 1993 | 99,463 ha | -3.8% |
| 1994 | 92,170 ha | -7.3% |
| 1995 | 82,911 ha | -10.0% |
| 1996 | 99,049 ha | +19.5% |
| 1997 | 103,500 ha | +4.5% |
| 1998 | 107,165 ha | +3.5% |
| 1999 | 106,525 ha | -0.6% |
| 2000 | 107,644 ha | +1.1% |
| 2001 | 97,877 ha | -9.1% |
| 2002 | 109,810 ha | +12.2% |
| 2003 | 112,118 ha | +2.1% |
| 2004 | 108,950 ha | -2.8% |
| 2005 | 123,764 ha | +13.6% |
| 2006 | 132,453 ha | +7.0% |
| 2007 | 132,850 ha | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 144,740 ha | +8.9% |
| 2009 | 158,170 ha | +9.3% |
| 2010 | 111,259 ha | -29.7% |
| 2011 | 134,206 ha | +20.6% |
| 2012 | 111,345 ha | -17.0% |
| 2013 | 117,615 ha | +5.6% |
| 2014 | 126,554 ha | +7.6% |
| 2015 | 127,782 ha | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 107,899 ha | -15.6% |
| 2017 | 104,266 ha | -3.4% |
| 2018 | 97,211 ha | -6.8% |
| 2019 | 102,563 ha | +5.5% |
| 2020 | 116,010 ha | +13.1% |
| 2021 | 120,840 ha | +4.2% |
| 2022 | 118,651 ha | -1.8% |
| 2023 | 121,840 ha | +2.7% |
| 2024 | 127,342 ha | +4.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Melanesia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | +68.5% | 34,125 ha | 57,515 ha |
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
- 2 Nigeria 1.30 million ha compare
- 3 Ghana 919,824 ha compare
- 4 Cameroon 642,244 ha compare
- 5 Brazil 617,168 ha compare
- 5 Côte d'Ivoire 3.81 million 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
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- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -1.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -19.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4201 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.2146 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 11.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -5.09 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.11 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 21.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -12.17 % change on previous year (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 5th out of 14 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.