Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Benin
Benin: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested was 236,816 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Benin is 236,816 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 2.4% on the previous year and up 45.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Benin peaked at 242,695 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 57,950 ha, in 1975.
Benin ranks 25th of 124 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 80,746 ha | 62,703 ha | 93,700 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 77,918 ha | 57,950 ha | 97,143 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 83,872 ha | 61,997 ha | 98,632 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 109,673 ha | 94,801 ha | 128,320 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 143,087 ha | 116,901 ha | 160,504 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 166,356 ha | 136,699 ha | 226,130 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 196,057 ha | 158,638 ha | 242,695 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Benin
More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Benin?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Benin was 236,816 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 242,695 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 57,950 ha in 1975.
- How does Benin rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested?
- Benin ranks 25th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is up 45.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Benin data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Groundnuts, excluding shelled — 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.