Oil palm fruit — Area harvested in Americas
Americas: Oil palm fruit — Area harvested was 1.73 million ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Oil palm fruit — Area harvested in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for oil palm fruit — area harvested in Americas is 1.73 million ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.7% on the previous year and up 44.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oil palm fruit — area harvested in Americas peaked at 1.73 million ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 61,610 ha, in 1961.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 80,317 ha | 61,610 ha | 108,619 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 90,233 ha | 75,351 ha | 106,514 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 167,434 ha | 117,782 ha | 240,499 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 384,827 ha | 271,103 ha | 457,719 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 628,909 ha | 503,507 ha | 797,695 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.24 million ha | 851,795 ha | 1.62 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.69 million ha | 1.67 million ha | 1.73 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Bananas — Production 32.73 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532,819 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 94 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 25.17 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 267.48 million An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 191.53 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.02 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.37 million ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 25.19 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 63,435 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oil palm fruit — area harvested in Americas?
- Oil palm fruit — area harvested in Americas was 1.73 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oil palm fruit — area harvested recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 1.73 million ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest oil palm fruit — area harvested recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 61,610 ha in 1961.
- How does Americas rank for oil palm fruit — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 2nd out of 5 groups with data for 2024.
- Is oil palm fruit — area harvested rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 44.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Oil palm fruit — 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.