Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Uganda
Uganda: Cocoa beans — Area harvested was 103,197 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Cocoa beans — Area harvested in Uganda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Uganda recorded 103,197 ha for cocoa beans — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 35.5% on the previous year and up 57.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — area harvested in Uganda peaked at 103,197 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 900 ha, in 1961.
That places Uganda 17th out of 64 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,311 ha | 900 ha | 2,100 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,000 ha | 2,000 ha | 2,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,280 ha | 1,500 ha | 5,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,416 ha | 10,000 ha | 13,098 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 21,902 ha | 13,717 ha | 43,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 61,116 ha | 41,841 ha | 74,132 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 85,265 ha | 71,217 ha | 103,197 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Uganda
- 14 Papua New Guinea 113,593 ha compare
- 15 India 111,036 ha compare
- 16 Dominican Republic 103,774 ha compare
- 18 Democratic Republic of the Congo 84,675 ha compare
- 19 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 77,391 ha compare
- 20 Congo 53,617 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Uganda
- Agriculture share gdp 26.13 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 26.13 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 68.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 34.97 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 26.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.20 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 560,000 t (1990)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — area harvested in Uganda?
- Cocoa beans — area harvested in Uganda was 103,197 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Uganda?
- The highest recorded value was 103,197 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — area harvested recorded in Uganda?
- The lowest recorded value was 900 ha in 1961.
- How does Uganda rank for cocoa beans — area harvested?
- Uganda ranks 17th out of 64 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — area harvested rising or falling in Uganda?
- Over the last ten years it is up 57.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Uganda 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.