Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Cameroon
Cameroon: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested was 540,000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Cameroon recorded 540,000 ha for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 30.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Cameroon peaked at 540,000 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 101,341 ha, in 1961.
Cameroon ranks 15th 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 | 168,167 ha | 101,341 ha | 221,582 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 318,556 ha | 258,320 ha | 387,241 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 319,427 ha | 273,160 ha | 362,966 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 307,219 ha | 192,186 ha | 320,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 278,645 ha | 204,158 ha | 366,501 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 461,374 ha | 377,496 ha | 539,452 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 529,381 ha | 516,904 ha | 540,000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
- 12 Chad 756,261 ha compare
- 13 Burkina Faso 730,410 ha compare
- 14 Mozambique 591,338 ha compare
- 16 Mali 526,150 ha compare
- 17 Democratic Republic of the Congo 515,000 ha compare
- 18 Argentina 431,991 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture share gdp 16.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 44.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 13.25 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 805,353 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Cameroon?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Cameroon was 540,000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 540,000 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 101,341 ha in 1961.
- How does Cameroon rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested?
- Cameroon ranks 15th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 30.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.