Pulses, Total — Area harvested in Melanesia
Melanesia: Pulses, Total — Area harvested was 14,033 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Pulses, Total — Area harvested in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 14,033 ha for pulses, total — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and down 32.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pulses, total — area harvested in Melanesia peaked at 20,686 ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 3,580 ha, in 1961.
That places Melanesia 121st out of 182 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 4,257 ha | 3,580 ha | 5,493 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,969 ha | 4,495 ha | 5,540 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,992 ha | 5,219 ha | 6,690 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,581 ha | 6,831 ha | 8,459 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,321 ha | 8,593 ha | 10,602 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,697 ha | 13,449 ha | 20,686 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,214 ha | 14,014 ha | 14,721 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 118 Panama 14,808 ha compare
- 119 Costa Rica 14,662 ha compare
- 120 Hungary 14,590 ha compare
- 122 Comoros 13,166 ha compare
- 123 Azerbaijan 12,727 ha compare
- 124 North Macedonia 11,205 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is pulses, total — area harvested in Melanesia?
- Pulses, total — area harvested in Melanesia was 14,033 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pulses, total — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 20,686 ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest pulses, total — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,580 ha in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for pulses, total — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 121st out of 182 countries with data for 2024.
- Is pulses, total — area harvested rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 32.2%. 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 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.