Potatoes — Area harvested in Melanesia
Melanesia: Potatoes — Area harvested was 523 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Potatoes — Area harvested in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 523 ha for potatoes — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of down 17.5% on the previous year and up 43.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, potatoes — area harvested in Melanesia peaked at 640 ha in 1977 and was at its lowest, 166 ha, in 1963.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Potatoes — Area harvested in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 203 ha | — |
| 1962 | 205 ha | +1.0% |
| 1963 | 166 ha | -19.0% |
| 1964 | 183 ha | +10.2% |
| 1965 | 183 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 207 ha | +13.1% |
| 1967 | 220 ha | +6.3% |
| 1968 | 216 ha | -1.8% |
| 1969 | 262 ha | +21.3% |
| 1970 | 326 ha | +24.4% |
| 1971 | 308 ha | -5.5% |
| 1972 | 333 ha | +8.1% |
| 1973 | 278 ha | -16.5% |
| 1974 | 401 ha | +44.2% |
| 1975 | 453 ha | +13.0% |
| 1976 | 535 ha | +18.1% |
| 1977 | 640 ha | +19.6% |
| 1978 | 540 ha | -15.6% |
| 1979 | 579 ha | +7.2% |
| 1980 | 559 ha | -3.5% |
| 1981 | 496 ha | -11.3% |
| 1982 | 561 ha | +13.1% |
| 1983 | 285 ha | -49.2% |
| 1984 | 265 ha | -7.0% |
| 1985 | 253 ha | -4.5% |
| 1986 | 318 ha | +25.7% |
| 1987 | 332 ha | +4.4% |
| 1988 | 275 ha | -17.2% |
| 1989 | 271 ha | -1.5% |
| 1990 | 231 ha | -14.8% |
| 1991 | 233 ha | +0.9% |
| 1992 | 240 ha | +3.0% |
| 1993 | 272 ha | +13.3% |
| 1994 | 281 ha | +3.3% |
| 1995 | 235 ha | -16.4% |
| 1996 | 232 ha | -1.3% |
| 1997 | 215 ha | -7.3% |
| 1998 | 216 ha | +0.5% |
| 1999 | 285 ha | +31.9% |
| 2000 | 270 ha | -5.3% |
| 2001 | 340 ha | +25.9% |
| 2002 | 351 ha | +3.2% |
| 2003 | 290 ha | -17.4% |
| 2004 | 319 ha | +10.0% |
| 2005 | 359 ha | +12.5% |
| 2006 | 377 ha | +5.0% |
| 2007 | 400 ha | +6.1% |
| 2008 | 419 ha | +4.8% |
| 2009 | 397 ha | -5.3% |
| 2010 | 359 ha | -9.6% |
| 2011 | 450 ha | +25.3% |
| 2012 | 491 ha | +9.1% |
| 2013 | 242 ha | -50.7% |
| 2014 | 364 ha | +50.4% |
| 2015 | 308 ha | -15.4% |
| 2016 | 391 ha | +26.9% |
| 2017 | 461 ha | +17.9% |
| 2018 | 537 ha | +16.5% |
| 2019 | 545 ha | +1.5% |
| 2020 | 587 ha | +7.7% |
| 2021 | 532 ha | -9.4% |
| 2022 | 269 ha | -49.4% |
| 2023 | 634 ha | +135.7% |
| 2024 | 523 ha | -17.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Potatoes — Area harvested 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | +135.7% | 269 ha | 634 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 205 ha | 166 ha | 262 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 439.3 ha | 278 ha | 640 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 361.5 ha | 253 ha | 561 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 244 ha | 215 ha | 285 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 352.2 ha | 270 ha | 419 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 414.8 ha | 242 ha | 545 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 509 ha | 269 ha | 634 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 13 Germany 282,200 ha compare
- 13 Viet Nam 20,733 ha compare
- 14 Egypt 268,565 ha compare
- 15 Kenya 225,948 ha compare
- 15 Timor-Leste 1,339 ha compare
- 16 France 217,680 ha compare
- 17 Lao People's Democratic Republic 53 ha compare
- 17 Nepal 211,505 ha compare
- 18 Poland 196,150 ha compare
- 18 Polynesia 0 ha compare
- 19 Czechoslovakia 161,787 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 8.31 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -1.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -19.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4201 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.2146 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 11.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -5.09 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.11 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 21.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -12.17 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is potatoes — area harvested in Melanesia?
- Potatoes — area harvested in Melanesia was 523 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest potatoes — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 640 ha in 1977.
- What is the lowest potatoes — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 166 ha in 1963.
- How does Melanesia rank for potatoes — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 16th out of 18 countries with data for 2024.
- Is potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 43.7%. 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 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.