Eggplants (aubergines) — Area harvested in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Eggplants (aubergines) — Area harvested was 14,383 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Eggplants (aubergines) — Area harvested in Sri Lanka, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Sri Lanka recorded 14,383 ha for eggplants (aubergines) — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 29.6% on the previous year and up 23.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, eggplants (aubergines) — area harvested in Sri Lanka peaked at 14,383 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,500 ha, in 1962.
Sri Lanka ranks 9th of 97 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Eggplants (aubergines) — Area harvested in Sri Lanka, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,500 ha | -50.0% |
| 1963 | 2,000 ha | +33.3% |
| 1964 | 3,000 ha | +50.0% |
| 1965 | 1,500 ha | -50.0% |
| 1966 | 2,000 ha | +33.3% |
| 1967 | 1,500 ha | -25.0% |
| 1968 | 1,500 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 2,000 ha | +33.3% |
| 1970 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,500 ha | -25.0% |
| 1974 | 2,000 ha | +33.3% |
| 1975 | 4,500 ha | +125.0% |
| 1976 | 3,500 ha | -22.2% |
| 1977 | 4,000 ha | +14.3% |
| 1978 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 4,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 5,000 ha | +25.0% |
| 1981 | 5,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 4,500 ha | -10.0% |
| 1983 | 8,500 ha | +88.9% |
| 1984 | 10,000 ha | +17.6% |
| 1985 | 7,500 ha | -25.0% |
| 1986 | 9,000 ha | +20.0% |
| 1987 | 8,300 ha | -7.8% |
| 1988 | 9,000 ha | +8.4% |
| 1989 | 8,400 ha | -6.7% |
| 1990 | 7,800 ha | -7.1% |
| 1991 | 8,500 ha | +9.0% |
| 1992 | 9,000 ha | +5.9% |
| 1993 | 9,225 ha | +2.5% |
| 1994 | 9,306 ha | +0.9% |
| 1995 | 9,383 ha | +0.8% |
| 1996 | 9,500 ha | +1.2% |
| 1997 | 9,000 ha | -5.3% |
| 1998 | 9,500 ha | +5.6% |
| 1999 | 10,000 ha | +5.3% |
| 2000 | 9,447 ha | -5.5% |
| 2001 | 9,300 ha | -1.6% |
| 2002 | 9,700 ha | +4.3% |
| 2003 | 10,630 ha | +9.6% |
| 2004 | 9,330 ha | -12.2% |
| 2005 | 9,790 ha | +4.9% |
| 2006 | 10,170 ha | +3.9% |
| 2007 | 10,160 ha | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 11,440 ha | +12.6% |
| 2009 | 10,760 ha | -5.9% |
| 2010 | 11,010 ha | +2.3% |
| 2011 | 11,320 ha | +2.8% |
| 2012 | 11,760 ha | +3.9% |
| 2013 | 12,300 ha | +4.6% |
| 2014 | 11,616 ha | -5.6% |
| 2015 | 10,826 ha | -6.8% |
| 2016 | 10,296 ha | -4.9% |
| 2017 | 9,665 ha | -6.1% |
| 2018 | 10,834 ha | +12.1% |
| 2019 | 9,877 ha | -8.8% |
| 2020 | 11,109 ha | +12.5% |
| 2021 | 10,723 ha | -3.5% |
| 2022 | 10,772 ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 11,095 ha | +3.0% |
| 2024 | 14,383 ha | +29.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,000 ha | 1,500 ha | 3,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,950 ha | 1,500 ha | 4,500 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,520 ha | 4,500 ha | 10,000 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,121 ha | 7,800 ha | 10,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,073 ha | 9,300 ha | 11,440 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,950 ha | 9,665 ha | 12,300 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,616 ha | 10,723 ha | 14,383 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is eggplants (aubergines) — area harvested in Sri Lanka?
- Eggplants (aubergines) — area harvested in Sri Lanka was 14,383 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest eggplants (aubergines) — area harvested recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 14,383 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest eggplants (aubergines) — area harvested recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,500 ha in 1962.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for eggplants (aubergines) — area harvested?
- Sri Lanka ranks 9th out of 97 countries with data for 2024.
- Is eggplants (aubergines) — area harvested rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is up 23.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Eggplants (aubergines) — 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.