Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested was 3,603 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested in Australia and New Zealand is 3,603 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 12.6% on the previous year and up 376.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 3,603 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 436 ha, in 2008.
That places Australia and New Zealand 33rd out of 134 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.
Cucumbers and gherkins — Area harvested in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 755 ha | — |
| 1962 | 691 ha | -8.5% |
| 1963 | 803 ha | +16.2% |
| 1964 | 804 ha | +0.1% |
| 1965 | 729 ha | -9.3% |
| 1966 | 879 ha | +20.6% |
| 1967 | 1,008 ha | +14.7% |
| 1968 | 1,096 ha | +8.7% |
| 1969 | 959 ha | -12.5% |
| 1970 | 1,070 ha | +11.6% |
| 1971 | 1,041 ha | -2.7% |
| 1972 | 1,200 ha | +15.3% |
| 1973 | 1,196 ha | -0.3% |
| 1974 | 1,180 ha | -1.3% |
| 1975 | 1,088 ha | -7.8% |
| 1976 | 1,224 ha | +12.5% |
| 1977 | 1,227 ha | +0.2% |
| 1978 | 1,292 ha | +5.3% |
| 1979 | 1,361 ha | +5.3% |
| 1980 | 1,390 ha | +2.1% |
| 1981 | 1,505 ha | +8.3% |
| 1982 | 1,387 ha | -7.8% |
| 1983 | 1,304 ha | -6.0% |
| 1984 | 1,330 ha | +2.0% |
| 1985 | 1,340 ha | +0.8% |
| 1986 | 1,395 ha | +4.1% |
| 1987 | 1,389 ha | -0.4% |
| 1988 | 1,339 ha | -3.6% |
| 1989 | 1,591 ha | +18.8% |
| 1990 | 1,578 ha | -0.8% |
| 1991 | 1,288 ha | -18.4% |
| 1992 | 1,141 ha | -11.4% |
| 1993 | 1,114 ha | -2.4% |
| 1994 | 1,057 ha | -5.1% |
| 1995 | 1,060 ha | +0.3% |
| 1996 | 1,106 ha | +4.3% |
| 1997 | 1,002 ha | -9.4% |
| 1998 | 1,139 ha | +13.7% |
| 1999 | 920 ha | -19.2% |
| 2000 | 1,116 ha | +21.3% |
| 2001 | 1,205 ha | +8.0% |
| 2002 | 1,284 ha | +6.6% |
| 2003 | 1,041 ha | -18.9% |
| 2004 | 1,029 ha | -1.2% |
| 2005 | 1,272 ha | +23.6% |
| 2006 | 682 ha | -46.4% |
| 2007 | 604 ha | -11.4% |
| 2008 | 436 ha | -27.8% |
| 2009 | 486 ha | +11.5% |
| 2010 | 794 ha | +63.4% |
| 2011 | 805 ha | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 837 ha | +4.0% |
| 2013 | 864 ha | +3.2% |
| 2014 | 756 ha | -12.5% |
| 2015 | 1,141 ha | +50.9% |
| 2016 | 1,237 ha | +8.4% |
| 2017 | 1,371 ha | +10.8% |
| 2018 | 1,519 ha | +10.8% |
| 2019 | 1,673 ha | +10.1% |
| 2020 | 2,290 ha | +36.9% |
| 2021 | 3,058 ha | +33.5% |
| 2022 | 3,057 ha | -0.0% |
| 2023 | 3,201 ha | +4.7% |
| 2024 | 3,603 ha | +12.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 858.22 ha | 691 ha | 1,096 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,188 ha | 1,041 ha | 1,361 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,397 ha | 1,304 ha | 1,591 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,140 ha | 920 ha | 1,578 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 915.5 ha | 436 ha | 1,284 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,100 ha | 756 ha | 1,673 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,042 ha | 2,290 ha | 3,603 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested in Australia and New Zealand?
- Cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested in Australia and New Zealand was 3,603 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 3,603 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 436 ha in 2008.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 33rd out of 134 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cucumbers and gherkins — area harvested rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 376.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cucumbers and gherkins — 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.