Pulses, Total — Area harvested in Madagascar
Madagascar: Pulses, Total — Area harvested was 133,502 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Pulses, Total — Area harvested in Madagascar, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Madagascar recorded 133,502 ha for pulses, total — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.2% on the previous year and up 13.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pulses, total — area harvested in Madagascar peaked at 137,931 ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 61,307 ha, in 1981.
Madagascar ranks 69th of 182 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 70,479 ha | 67,300 ha | 75,820 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 75,471 ha | 64,075 ha | 85,542 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 64,931 ha | 61,307 ha | 73,845 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 97,157 ha | 65,159 ha | 106,598 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 103,477 ha | 100,660 ha | 107,563 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 117,909 ha | 109,188 ha | 133,869 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 126,963 ha | 113,577 ha | 137,931 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Madagascar
- Agriculture share gdp 21.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.3% (2024)
- Rural population 67.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 21.97 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.26 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 399,940 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is pulses, total — area harvested in Madagascar?
- Pulses, total — area harvested in Madagascar was 133,502 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pulses, total — area harvested recorded in Madagascar?
- The highest recorded value was 137,931 ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest pulses, total — area harvested recorded in Madagascar?
- The lowest recorded value was 61,307 ha in 1981.
- How does Madagascar rank for pulses, total — area harvested?
- Madagascar ranks 69th out of 182 countries with data for 2024.
- Is pulses, total — area harvested rising or falling in Madagascar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Madagascar data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Pulses, Total — 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.