Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Panama
Panama: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 2,847 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Panama, 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 Panama is 2,847 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 47.2% on the previous year and down 47.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Panama peaked at 7,475 ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 600 ha, in 1988.
That places Panama 34th out of 53 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Panama, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,500 ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,200 ha | -6.7% |
| 1963 | 4,000 ha | -4.8% |
| 1964 | 3,800 ha | -5.0% |
| 1965 | 3,600 ha | -5.3% |
| 1966 | 3,500 ha | -2.8% |
| 1967 | 3,400 ha | -2.9% |
| 1968 | 3,300 ha | -2.9% |
| 1969 | 3,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 3,221 ha | -2.4% |
| 1971 | 3,200 ha | -0.7% |
| 1972 | 3,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 3,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 3,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 4,000 ha | +25.0% |
| 1976 | 4,500 ha | +12.5% |
| 1977 | 3,000 ha | -33.3% |
| 1978 | 4,800 ha | +60.0% |
| 1979 | 5,200 ha | +8.3% |
| 1980 | 5,000 ha | -3.8% |
| 1981 | 5,500 ha | +10.0% |
| 1982 | 4,600 ha | -16.4% |
| 1983 | 4,000 ha | -13.0% |
| 1984 | 6,000 ha | +50.0% |
| 1985 | 4,260 ha | -29.0% |
| 1986 | 5,200 ha | +22.1% |
| 1987 | 5,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 600 ha | -88.5% |
| 1989 | 2,500 ha | +316.7% |
| 1990 | 2,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 2,300 ha | -8.0% |
| 1992 | 2,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 3,700 ha | +60.9% |
| 1994 | 3,700 ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 3,500 ha | -5.4% |
| 1996 | 3,200 ha | -8.6% |
| 1997 | 2,950 ha | -7.8% |
| 1998 | 4,000 ha | +35.6% |
| 1999 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 2,700 ha | -32.5% |
| 2003 | 3,500 ha | +29.6% |
| 2004 | 3,600 ha | +2.9% |
| 2005 | 3,700 ha | +2.8% |
| 2006 | 4,800 ha | +29.7% |
| 2007 | 5,050 ha | +5.2% |
| 2008 | 5,200 ha | +3.0% |
| 2009 | 4,200 ha | -19.2% |
| 2010 | 5,050 ha | +20.2% |
| 2011 | 5,794 ha | +14.7% |
| 2012 | 5,783 ha | -0.2% |
| 2013 | 4,859 ha | -16.0% |
| 2014 | 5,402 ha | +11.2% |
| 2015 | 4,845 ha | -10.3% |
| 2016 | 5,912 ha | +22.0% |
| 2017 | 6,040 ha | +2.2% |
| 2018 | 5,422 ha | -10.2% |
| 2019 | 7,127 ha | +31.4% |
| 2020 | 6,303 ha | -11.6% |
| 2021 | 7,475 ha | +18.6% |
| 2022 | 6,058 ha | -19.0% |
| 2023 | 5,389 ha | -11.0% |
| 2024 | 2,847 ha | -47.2% |
Panama compared with similar countries
- Panama's 2,847 ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 4,533 ha, 63% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Panama 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | +316.7% | 600 ha | 2,500 ha |
| 1988 | -88.5% | 5,200 ha | 600 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,733 ha | 3,300 ha | 4,500 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,752 ha | 3,000 ha | 5,200 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,286 ha | 600 ha | 6,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,215 ha | 2,300 ha | 4,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,075 ha | 2,700 ha | 5,200 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,623 ha | 4,845 ha | 7,127 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,614 ha | 2,847 ha | 7,475 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Panama
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.06 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0262 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 518.14 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.7724 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3385 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 4.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Panama?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Panama was 2,847 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Panama?
- The highest recorded value was 7,475 ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Panama?
- The lowest recorded value was 600 ha in 1988.
- How does Panama rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Panama ranks 34th out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Panama?
- Over the last ten years it is down 47.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Panama 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.