Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Senegal
Senegal: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested was 1.27 million ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Senegal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Senegal recorded 1.27 million ha for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 1.1% on the previous year and up 44.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Senegal peaked at 1.35 million ha in 1976 and was at its lowest, 524,843 ha, in 2003.
That places Senegal 7th out of 124 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.08 million ha | 959,800 ha | 1.20 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.13 million ha | 989,918 ha | 1.35 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 916,431 ha | 604,573 ha | 1.15 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 839,503 ha | 555,464 ha | 956,780 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 797,149 ha | 524,843 ha | 1.10 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.01 million ha | 708,950 ha | 1.25 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.24 million ha | 1.21 million ha | 1.27 million ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Senegal
- Agriculture share gdp 17.08 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 17.08 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 44.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.1% (2025)
- Rural population 8.37 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 17.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.32 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 38,625 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Senegal?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Senegal was 1.27 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Senegal?
- The highest recorded value was 1.35 million ha in 1976.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Senegal?
- The lowest recorded value was 524,843 ha in 2003.
- How does Senegal rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested?
- Senegal ranks 7th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested rising or falling in Senegal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 44.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Senegal 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.