Groundnuts, excluding shelled β Area harvested in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Groundnuts, excluding shelled β Area harvested was 17,830 ha in 2024. β² Rising
Groundnuts, excluding shelled β Area harvested in Sri Lanka, 1961β2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested in Sri Lanka stood at 17,830 ha.
That represents a change of up 7.4% on the previous year and up 24.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested in Sri Lanka peaked at 19,975 ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 923 ha, in 1961.
That places Sri Lanka 53rd out of 124 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 3,496 ha | 923 ha | 6,858 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,211 ha | 4,226 ha | 10,901 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,578 ha | 7,837 ha | 14,809 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,359 ha | 7,529 ha | 10,430 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,297 ha | 9,010 ha | 11,660 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,841 ha | 9,290 ha | 19,975 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,826 ha | 16,597 ha | 19,508 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Rural population 79.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 17.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco β Production 8,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested in Sri Lanka?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested in Sri Lanka was 17,830 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 Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 19,975 ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 923 ha in 1961.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested?
- Sri Lanka ranks 53rd out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled β area harvested rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.