Plums and sloes — Area harvested in Americas
Americas: Plums and sloes — Area harvested was 70,651 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plums and sloes — Area harvested in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Americas recorded 70,651 ha for plums and sloes — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 2.0% on the previous year and down 23.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plums and sloes — area harvested in Americas peaked at 106,338 ha in 1996 and was at its lowest, 62,451 ha, in 1978.
Americas ranks 8th of 25 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plums and sloes — Area harvested in Americas, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 62,479 ha | — |
| 1962 | 62,801 ha | +0.5% |
| 1963 | 66,488 ha | +5.9% |
| 1964 | 68,042 ha | +2.3% |
| 1965 | 68,060 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 67,997 ha | -0.1% |
| 1967 | 68,864 ha | +1.3% |
| 1968 | 70,617 ha | +2.5% |
| 1969 | 70,319 ha | -0.4% |
| 1970 | 71,102 ha | +1.1% |
| 1971 | 68,824 ha | -3.2% |
| 1972 | 67,478 ha | -2.0% |
| 1973 | 66,778 ha | -1.0% |
| 1974 | 67,475 ha | +1.0% |
| 1975 | 66,257 ha | -1.8% |
| 1976 | 63,102 ha | -4.8% |
| 1977 | 65,592 ha | +3.9% |
| 1978 | 62,451 ha | -4.8% |
| 1979 | 62,641 ha | +0.3% |
| 1980 | 79,242 ha | +26.5% |
| 1981 | 78,461 ha | -1.0% |
| 1982 | 79,013 ha | +0.7% |
| 1983 | 80,956 ha | +2.5% |
| 1984 | 83,522 ha | +3.2% |
| 1985 | 83,440 ha | -0.1% |
| 1986 | 85,651 ha | +2.6% |
| 1987 | 86,539 ha | +1.0% |
| 1988 | 83,103 ha | -4.0% |
| 1989 | 81,095 ha | -2.4% |
| 1990 | 85,597 ha | +5.6% |
| 1991 | 92,646 ha | +8.2% |
| 1992 | 95,927 ha | +3.5% |
| 1993 | 101,480 ha | +5.8% |
| 1994 | 105,785 ha | +4.2% |
| 1995 | 95,921 ha | -9.3% |
| 1996 | 106,338 ha | +10.9% |
| 1997 | 99,278 ha | -6.6% |
| 1998 | 99,422 ha | +0.1% |
| 1999 | 97,701 ha | -1.7% |
| 2000 | 97,589 ha | -0.1% |
| 2001 | 100,052 ha | +2.5% |
| 2002 | 96,050 ha | -4.0% |
| 2003 | 101,458 ha | +5.6% |
| 2004 | 93,553 ha | -7.8% |
| 2005 | 92,611 ha | -1.0% |
| 2006 | 93,585 ha | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 88,557 ha | -5.4% |
| 2008 | 89,878 ha | +1.5% |
| 2009 | 91,569 ha | +1.9% |
| 2010 | 94,601 ha | +3.3% |
| 2011 | 81,807 ha | -13.5% |
| 2012 | 101,190 ha | +23.7% |
| 2013 | 79,851 ha | -21.1% |
| 2014 | 91,698 ha | +14.8% |
| 2015 | 83,768 ha | -8.6% |
| 2016 | 79,485 ha | -5.1% |
| 2017 | 80,165 ha | +0.9% |
| 2018 | 74,770 ha | -6.7% |
| 2019 | 77,285 ha | +3.4% |
| 2020 | 77,446 ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 74,443 ha | -3.9% |
| 2022 | 70,435 ha | -5.4% |
| 2023 | 69,235 ha | -1.7% |
| 2024 | 70,651 ha | +2.0% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plums and sloes — Area harvested in Americas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | +26.5% | 62,641 ha | 79,242 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 67,296 ha | 62,479 ha | 70,617 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 66,170 ha | 62,451 ha | 71,102 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 82,102 ha | 78,461 ha | 86,539 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 98,010 ha | 85,597 ha | 106,338 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 94,490 ha | 88,557 ha | 101,458 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 84,462 ha | 74,770 ha | 101,190 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 72,442 ha | 69,235 ha | 77,446 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 5 Serbia and Montenegro 136,060 ha compare
- 6 Serbia 74,082 ha compare
- 6 Syrian Arab Republic 4,069 ha compare
- 7 Romania 66,840 ha compare
- 7 United Republic of Tanzania 630 ha compare
- 8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 419 ha compare
- 8 Russian Federation 43,210 ha compare
- 9 Bosnia and Herzegovina 36,703 ha compare
- 10 Czechoslovakia 18,500 ha compare
- 11 Argentina 18,170 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.8368 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.91 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.12 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.7578 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.7575 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.67 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plums and sloes — area harvested in Americas?
- Plums and sloes — area harvested in Americas was 70,651 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plums and sloes — area harvested recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 106,338 ha in 1996.
- What is the lowest plums and sloes — area harvested recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 62,451 ha in 1978.
- How does Americas rank for plums and sloes — area harvested?
- Americas ranks 8th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plums and sloes — area harvested rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is down 23.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Plums and sloes — 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.