Coffee, green — Area harvested in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Coffee, green — Area harvested was 1,499 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Coffee, green — Area harvested in Sierra Leone, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for coffee, green — area harvested in Sierra Leone is 1,499 ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 6.7% on the previous year and down 90.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, coffee, green — area harvested in Sierra Leone peaked at 19,326 ha in 1997 and was at its lowest, 1,113 ha, in 2016.
Sierra Leone ranks 46th of 74 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 8,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,670 ha | 8,000 ha | 11,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,819 ha | 10,739 ha | 19,326 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,943 ha | 9,000 ha | 12,500 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,756 ha | 1,113 ha | 14,936 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,560 ha | 1,489 ha | 1,680 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture share gdp 29.54 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 29.54 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
- Rural population 54.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.0% (2025)
- Rural population 4.77 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 29.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.20 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 47.85 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is coffee, green — area harvested in Sierra Leone?
- Coffee, green — area harvested in Sierra Leone was 1,499 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest coffee, green — area harvested recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 19,326 ha in 1997.
- What is the lowest coffee, green — area harvested recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,113 ha in 2016.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for coffee, green — area harvested?
- Sierra Leone ranks 46th out of 74 countries with data for 2024.
- Is coffee, green — area harvested rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is down 90.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sierra Leone data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Coffee, green — 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.