Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Uganda
Uganda: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested was 330,000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Area harvested in Uganda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Uganda recorded 330,000 ha for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of down 21.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Uganda peaked at 464,000 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 95,000 ha, in 1980.
Uganda ranks 22nd 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 | 254,778 ha | 240,000 ha | 280,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 236,824 ha | 122,000 ha | 291,800 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 142,738 ha | 95,000 ha | 189,377 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 190,600 ha | 180,000 ha | 200,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 239,400 ha | 199,000 ha | 369,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 394,930 ha | 286,000 ha | 428,000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 361,200 ha | 330,000 ha | 464,000 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Uganda
- Agriculture share gdp 26.13 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 26.13 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 68.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 34.97 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 26.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.20 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 560,000 t (1990)
Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Uganda?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested in Uganda was 330,000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Uganda?
- The highest recorded value was 464,000 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested recorded in Uganda?
- The lowest recorded value was 95,000 ha in 1980.
- How does Uganda rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested?
- Uganda ranks 22nd out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled — area harvested rising or falling in Uganda?
- Over the last ten years it is down 21.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Uganda 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.