Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Melanesia
Melanesia: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested was 3,550 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Melanesia, 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 Melanesia is 3,550 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 33.7% on the previous year and down 12.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Melanesia peaked at 4,420 ha in 1971 and was at its lowest, 2,502 ha, in 1966.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,052 ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,061 ha | +0.3% |
| 1963 | 3,345 ha | +9.3% |
| 1964 | 3,545 ha | +6.0% |
| 1965 | 2,987 ha | -15.7% |
| 1966 | 2,502 ha | -16.2% |
| 1967 | 3,160 ha | +26.3% |
| 1968 | 3,879 ha | +22.8% |
| 1969 | 3,989 ha | +2.8% |
| 1970 | 4,200 ha | +5.3% |
| 1971 | 4,420 ha | +5.2% |
| 1972 | 4,338 ha | -1.9% |
| 1973 | 3,628 ha | -16.4% |
| 1974 | 3,650 ha | +0.6% |
| 1975 | 2,730 ha | -25.2% |
| 1976 | 2,740 ha | +0.4% |
| 1977 | 2,750 ha | +0.4% |
| 1978 | 2,800 ha | +1.8% |
| 1979 | 2,850 ha | +1.8% |
| 1980 | 2,850 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 2,900 ha | +1.8% |
| 1982 | 2,866 ha | -1.2% |
| 1983 | 2,920 ha | +1.9% |
| 1984 | 2,972 ha | +1.8% |
| 1985 | 3,100 ha | +4.3% |
| 1986 | 3,172 ha | +2.3% |
| 1987 | 2,969 ha | -6.4% |
| 1988 | 3,139 ha | +5.7% |
| 1989 | 3,139 ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 2,939 ha | -6.4% |
| 1991 | 3,040 ha | +3.4% |
| 1992 | 2,973 ha | -2.2% |
| 1993 | 2,780 ha | -6.5% |
| 1994 | 3,012 ha | +8.3% |
| 1995 | 3,025 ha | +0.4% |
| 1996 | 3,117 ha | +3.0% |
| 1997 | 2,923 ha | -6.2% |
| 1998 | 2,949 ha | +0.9% |
| 1999 | 3,176 ha | +7.7% |
| 2000 | 3,320 ha | +4.5% |
| 2001 | 3,621 ha | +9.1% |
| 2002 | 3,176 ha | -12.3% |
| 2003 | 3,300 ha | +3.9% |
| 2004 | 3,766 ha | +14.1% |
| 2005 | 3,312 ha | -12.1% |
| 2006 | 3,807 ha | +14.9% |
| 2007 | 3,976 ha | +4.4% |
| 2008 | 3,434 ha | -13.6% |
| 2009 | 4,042 ha | +17.7% |
| 2010 | 3,890 ha | -3.8% |
| 2011 | 3,952 ha | +1.6% |
| 2012 | 4,031 ha | +2.0% |
| 2013 | 4,068 ha | +0.9% |
| 2014 | 4,045 ha | -0.6% |
| 2015 | 4,101 ha | +1.4% |
| 2016 | 4,093 ha | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 4,112 ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 4,124 ha | +0.3% |
| 2019 | 3,997 ha | -3.1% |
| 2020 | 3,714 ha | -7.1% |
| 2021 | 3,369 ha | -9.3% |
| 2022 | 2,806 ha | -16.7% |
| 2023 | 2,656 ha | -5.3% |
| 2024 | 3,550 ha | +33.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Melanesia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | +33.7% | 2,656 ha | 3,550 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,280 ha | 2,502 ha | 3,989 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,411 ha | 2,730 ha | 4,420 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,003 ha | 2,850 ha | 3,172 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,993 ha | 2,780 ha | 3,176 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,575 ha | 3,176 ha | 4,042 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,041 ha | 3,890 ha | 4,124 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,219 ha | 2,656 ha | 3,714 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 10 Guinea 880,000 ha compare
- 10 Lao People's Democratic Republic 13,175 ha compare
- 11 Chad 756,261 ha compare
- 11 Syrian Arab Republic 8,047 ha compare
- 12 Burkina Faso 730,410 ha compare
- 12 Timor-Leste 4,076 ha compare
- 13 Mozambique 591,338 ha compare
- 14 Cameroon 540,000 ha compare
- 14 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2,514 ha compare
- 15 Mali 526,150 ha compare
- 15 Polynesia 2,030 ha compare
- 16 Argentina 431,991 ha compare
- 16 Côte d'Ivoire 165,000 ha compare
- 16 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,357 ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Melanesia?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Melanesia was 3,550 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 4,420 ha in 1971.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,502 ha in 1966.
- How does Melanesia rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 13th out of 16 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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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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.