Potatoes — Area harvested in Belize
Belize: Potatoes — Area harvested was 156 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Area harvested in Belize, 1989–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Belize recorded 156 ha for potatoes — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 36 years on record.
The figure is up 34.5% on the previous year and up 71.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — area harvested in Belize peaked at 156 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 25 ha, in 1989.
Belize ranks 142nd of 153 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 36 years of available data.
Potatoes — Area harvested in Belize, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 25 ha | — |
| 1990 | 26 ha | +4.0% |
| 1991 | 26 ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 27 ha | +3.8% |
| 1993 | 27 ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 27 ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 46 ha | +70.4% |
| 1996 | 27 ha | -41.3% |
| 1997 | 29 ha | +7.4% |
| 1998 | 41 ha | +41.4% |
| 1999 | 86 ha | +109.8% |
| 2000 | 115 ha | +33.7% |
| 2001 | 103 ha | -10.4% |
| 2002 | 84 ha | -18.4% |
| 2003 | 79 ha | -6.0% |
| 2004 | 53 ha | -32.9% |
| 2005 | 91 ha | +71.7% |
| 2006 | 102 ha | +12.1% |
| 2007 | 63 ha | -38.2% |
| 2008 | 67 ha | +6.3% |
| 2009 | 79 ha | +17.9% |
| 2010 | 90 ha | +13.9% |
| 2011 | 102 ha | +13.3% |
| 2012 | 112 ha | +9.8% |
| 2013 | 44 ha | -60.7% |
| 2014 | 91 ha | +106.8% |
| 2015 | 87 ha | -4.4% |
| 2016 | 99 ha | +13.8% |
| 2017 | 98 ha | -1.0% |
| 2018 | 128 ha | +30.6% |
| 2019 | 130 ha | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 94 ha | -27.7% |
| 2021 | 101 ha | +7.4% |
| 2022 | 84 ha | -16.8% |
| 2023 | 116 ha | +38.1% |
| 2024 | 156 ha | +34.5% |
Belize compared with similar countries
- Belize's 156 ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 15,744 ha, 1% of the median. (40 countries reporting)
- Belize's 156 ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 3,144 ha, 5% of the median. (22 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 25 ha | 25 ha | 25 ha | 1 |
| 1990s | 36.2 ha | 26 ha | 86 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 83.6 ha | 53 ha | 115 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 98.1 ha | 44 ha | 130 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 110.2 ha | 84 ha | 156 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Belize
- 139 Comoros 241 ha compare
- 140 Papua New Guinea 218 ha compare
- 141 El Salvador 187 ha compare
- 143 Faroe Islands 100 ha compare
- 144 Eritrea 90 ha compare
- 145 Qatar 49 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Belize
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0795 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 610.5 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.74 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5844 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.9% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — area harvested in Belize?
- Potatoes — area harvested in Belize was 156 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — area harvested recorded in Belize?
- The highest recorded value was 156 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest potatoes — area harvested recorded in Belize?
- The lowest recorded value was 25 ha in 1989.
- How does Belize rank for potatoes — area harvested?
- Belize ranks 142nd out of 153 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Belize?
- Over the last ten years it is up 71.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Belize data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Potatoes — 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.