Groundnuts, excluding shelled β Area harvested in Jamaica
Jamaica: Groundnuts, excluding shelled β Area harvested was 1,777 ha in 2024. β² Rising
Groundnuts, excluding shelled β Area harvested in Jamaica, 1961β2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested in Jamaica stood at 1,777 ha.
That represents a change of up 10.3% on the previous year and down 11.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested in Jamaica peaked at 3,650 ha in 1994 and was at its lowest, 145 ha, in 1962.
Jamaica ranks 87th of 124 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 348.22 ha | 145 ha | 758 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,228 ha | 579 ha | 2,568 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,121 ha | 1,677 ha | 2,687 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,978 ha | 1,875 ha | 3,650 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,464 ha | 1,916 ha | 3,507 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,095 ha | 1,751 ha | 2,360 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,688 ha | 1,611 ha | 1,777 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Jamaica
- Agriculture share gdp 8.74 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.74 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
- Rural population 40.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 1.15 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.99 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas β Production 62,998 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested in Jamaica?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested in Jamaica was 1,777 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested recorded in Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 3,650 ha in 1994.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 145 ha in 1962.
- How does Jamaica rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested?
- Jamaica ranks 87th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Jamaica data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Groundnuts, excluding shelled β 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.