Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield was 1,068 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Melanesia stood at 1,068 kg/ha.
The figure is up 3.1% on the previous year and down 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Melanesia peaked at 1,287 kg/ha in 1962 and was at its lowest, 630.7 kg/ha, in 1965.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,186 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,287 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1963 | 762.9 kg/ha | -40.7% |
| 1964 | 668.8 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 1965 | 630.7 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1966 | 835.3 kg/ha | +32.4% |
| 1967 | 889.2 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1968 | 873.9 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1969 | 762.1 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 1970 | 800 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1971 | 803.2 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1972 | 783.8 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1973 | 744.2 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1974 | 794.5 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1975 | 897.4 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 1976 | 916.1 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1977 | 923.6 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1978 | 932.1 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1979 | 933.3 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1980 | 954.4 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1981 | 948.3 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1982 | 957.1 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1983 | 984.6 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1984 | 953.2 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1985 | 938.7 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1986 | 937.9 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1987 | 943.1 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1988 | 947.8 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1989 | 1,021 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1990 | 1,015 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1991 | 920.9 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 1992 | 948.9 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1993 | 989.6 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1994 | 955.8 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1995 | 958.9 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1996 | 941 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1997 | 920.4 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1998 | 1,017 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1999 | 960.4 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2000 | 981.5 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2001 | 956.9 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2002 | 1,171 kg/ha | +22.4% |
| 2003 | 1,205 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2004 | 1,020 kg/ha | -15.3% |
| 2005 | 1,203 kg/ha | +18.0% |
| 2006 | 1,038 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 2007 | 1,030 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2008 | 1,105 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2009 | 1,029 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2010 | 1,067 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2011 | 1,070 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,062 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2013 | 1,069 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2014 | 1,079 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 1,079 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,084 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 1,087 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 1,089 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 1,088 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2020 | 1,074 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2021 | 1,069 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2022 | 1,044 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2023 | 1,036 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2024 | 1,068 kg/ha | +3.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | -40.7% | 1,287 kg/ha | 762.9 kg/ha |
| 1966 | +32.4% | 630.7 kg/ha | 835.3 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 877.28 kg/ha | 630.7 kg/ha | 1,287 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 852.82 kg/ha | 744.2 kg/ha | 933.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 958.58 kg/ha | 937.9 kg/ha | 1,021 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 962.76 kg/ha | 920.4 kg/ha | 1,017 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,074 kg/ha | 956.9 kg/ha | 1,205 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,077 kg/ha | 1,062 kg/ha | 1,089 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,058 kg/ha | 1,036 kg/ha | 1,074 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 6 Cyprus 4,375 kg/ha compare
- 6 Viet Nam 2,682 kg/ha compare
- 7 Guatemala 4,306 kg/ha compare
- 7 Lao People's Democratic Republic 2,346 kg/ha compare
- 8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,385 kg/ha compare
- 8 Saudi Arabia 4,144 kg/ha compare
- 9 Nicaragua 4,124 kg/ha compare
- 10 China, mainland 4,040 kg/ha compare
- 11 China 4,032 kg/ha compare
- 11 Democratic Republic of the Congo 986.9 kg/ha compare
- 12 Tajikistan 3,946 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Melanesia?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Melanesia was 1,068 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,287 kg/ha in 1962.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 630.7 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Melanesia rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 9th out of 16 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.0%. 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 — Yield. 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.