Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Caribbean
Caribbean: Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested was 3,838 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Caribbean is 3,838 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 5.6% on the previous year and up 72.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Caribbean peaked at 3,838 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,026 ha, in 1974.
That places Caribbean 24th out of 28 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,103 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,083 ha | -1.8% |
| 1963 | 1,158 ha | +6.9% |
| 1964 | 1,318 ha | +13.8% |
| 1965 | 1,497 ha | +13.6% |
| 1966 | 1,530 ha | +2.2% |
| 1967 | 1,450 ha | -5.2% |
| 1968 | 1,365 ha | -5.9% |
| 1969 | 1,143 ha | -16.3% |
| 1970 | 1,156 ha | +1.1% |
| 1971 | 1,350 ha | +16.8% |
| 1972 | 1,332 ha | -1.3% |
| 1973 | 1,119 ha | -16.0% |
| 1974 | 1,026 ha | -8.3% |
| 1975 | 1,181 ha | +15.1% |
| 1976 | 1,283 ha | +8.6% |
| 1977 | 1,234 ha | -3.8% |
| 1978 | 1,298 ha | +5.2% |
| 1979 | 1,333 ha | +2.7% |
| 1980 | 1,365 ha | +2.4% |
| 1981 | 1,155 ha | -15.4% |
| 1982 | 1,137 ha | -1.6% |
| 1983 | 1,351 ha | +18.8% |
| 1984 | 1,321 ha | -2.2% |
| 1985 | 1,295 ha | -2.0% |
| 1986 | 1,282 ha | -1.0% |
| 1987 | 1,307 ha | +2.0% |
| 1988 | 1,228 ha | -6.0% |
| 1989 | 1,260 ha | +2.6% |
| 1990 | 2,199 ha | +74.5% |
| 1991 | 2,018 ha | -8.2% |
| 1992 | 1,976 ha | -2.1% |
| 1993 | 1,851 ha | -6.3% |
| 1994 | 1,896 ha | +2.4% |
| 1995 | 2,028 ha | +7.0% |
| 1996 | 2,212 ha | +9.1% |
| 1997 | 1,968 ha | -11.0% |
| 1998 | 1,802 ha | -8.4% |
| 1999 | 1,750 ha | -2.9% |
| 2000 | 1,646 ha | -5.9% |
| 2001 | 1,673 ha | +1.6% |
| 2002 | 1,893 ha | +13.2% |
| 2003 | 2,108 ha | +11.4% |
| 2004 | 2,097 ha | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 2,276 ha | +8.5% |
| 2006 | 2,420 ha | +6.3% |
| 2007 | 1,790 ha | -26.0% |
| 2008 | 1,327 ha | -25.9% |
| 2009 | 1,726 ha | +30.1% |
| 2010 | 1,871 ha | +8.4% |
| 2011 | 2,003 ha | +7.1% |
| 2012 | 2,130 ha | +6.3% |
| 2013 | 2,260 ha | +6.1% |
| 2014 | 2,225 ha | -1.5% |
| 2015 | 2,885 ha | +29.7% |
| 2016 | 2,764 ha | -4.2% |
| 2017 | 2,863 ha | +3.6% |
| 2018 | 3,251 ha | +13.6% |
| 2019 | 3,115 ha | -4.2% |
| 2020 | 3,149 ha | +1.1% |
| 2021 | 3,266 ha | +3.7% |
| 2022 | 3,553 ha | +8.8% |
| 2023 | 3,633 ha | +2.3% |
| 2024 | 3,838 ha | +5.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Lettuce and chicory — Area harvested in Caribbean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | +74.5% | 1,260 ha | 2,199 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,294 ha | 1,083 ha | 1,530 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,231 ha | 1,026 ha | 1,350 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,270 ha | 1,137 ha | 1,365 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,970 ha | 1,750 ha | 2,212 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,896 ha | 1,327 ha | 2,420 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,537 ha | 1,871 ha | 3,251 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,488 ha | 3,149 ha | 3,838 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 21 Colombia 5,076 ha compare
- 22 Egypt 4,911 ha compare
- 23 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4,610 ha compare
- 24 Republic of Korea 4,181 ha compare
- 25 Belgium-Luxembourg 3,966 ha compare
- 26 Guatemala 3,809 ha compare
- 27 Thailand 3,746 ha compare
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- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 9.37 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 11.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 7.05 % change on previous year (2024)
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- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.98 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.87 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 3.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 8.98 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Caribbean?
- Lettuce and chicory — area harvested in Caribbean was 3,838 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest lettuce and chicory — area harvested recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 3,838 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest lettuce and chicory — area harvested recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,026 ha in 1974.
- How does Caribbean rank for lettuce and chicory — area harvested?
- Caribbean ranks 24th out of 28 countries with data for 2024.
- Is lettuce and chicory — area harvested rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 72.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Lettuce and chicory — 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.