Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Area harvested in Melanesia
Melanesia: Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Area harvested was 382 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Area harvested in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 382 ha for pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested in Melanesia peaked at 386 ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 11 ha, in 1978.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Area harvested in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 46 ha | — |
| 1962 | 47 ha | +2.2% |
| 1963 | 30 ha | -36.2% |
| 1964 | 38 ha | +26.7% |
| 1965 | 37 ha | -2.6% |
| 1966 | 39 ha | +5.4% |
| 1967 | 19 ha | -51.3% |
| 1968 | 19 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 12 ha | -36.8% |
| 1970 | 24 ha | +100.0% |
| 1971 | 18 ha | -25.0% |
| 1972 | 19 ha | +5.6% |
| 1973 | 24 ha | +26.3% |
| 1974 | 28 ha | +16.7% |
| 1975 | 31 ha | +10.7% |
| 1976 | 25 ha | -19.4% |
| 1977 | 23 ha | -8.0% |
| 1978 | 11 ha | -52.2% |
| 1979 | 44 ha | +300.0% |
| 1980 | 29 ha | -34.1% |
| 1981 | 23 ha | -20.7% |
| 1982 | 13 ha | -43.5% |
| 1983 | 20 ha | +53.8% |
| 1984 | 18 ha | -10.0% |
| 1985 | 14 ha | -22.2% |
| 1986 | 12 ha | -14.3% |
| 1987 | 11 ha | -8.3% |
| 1988 | 30 ha | +172.7% |
| 1989 | 91 ha | +203.3% |
| 1990 | 81 ha | -11.0% |
| 1991 | 151 ha | +86.4% |
| 1992 | 88 ha | -41.7% |
| 1993 | 112 ha | +27.3% |
| 1994 | 169 ha | +50.9% |
| 1995 | 180 ha | +6.5% |
| 1996 | 193 ha | +7.2% |
| 1997 | 208 ha | +7.8% |
| 1998 | 202 ha | -2.9% |
| 1999 | 236 ha | +16.8% |
| 2000 | 214 ha | -9.3% |
| 2001 | 225 ha | +5.1% |
| 2002 | 228 ha | +1.3% |
| 2003 | 212 ha | -7.0% |
| 2004 | 218 ha | +2.8% |
| 2005 | 262 ha | +20.2% |
| 2006 | 331 ha | +26.3% |
| 2007 | 305 ha | -7.9% |
| 2008 | 307 ha | +0.7% |
| 2009 | 317 ha | +3.3% |
| 2010 | 326 ha | +2.8% |
| 2011 | 337 ha | +3.4% |
| 2012 | 360 ha | +6.8% |
| 2013 | 348 ha | -3.3% |
| 2014 | 371 ha | +6.6% |
| 2015 | 386 ha | +4.0% |
| 2016 | 368 ha | -4.7% |
| 2017 | 385 ha | +4.6% |
| 2018 | 379 ha | -1.6% |
| 2019 | 379 ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 385 ha | +1.6% |
| 2021 | 381 ha | -1.0% |
| 2022 | 382 ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 383 ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 382 ha | -0.3% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Pumpkins, squash and gourds — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | +300.0% | 11 ha | 44 ha |
| 1989 | +203.3% | 30 ha | 91 ha |
| 1988 | +172.7% | 11 ha | 30 ha |
| 1970 | +100.0% | 12 ha | 24 ha |
| 1991 | +86.4% | 81 ha | 151 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 31.89 ha | 12 ha | 47 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 24.7 ha | 11 ha | 44 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 26.1 ha | 11 ha | 91 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 162 ha | 81 ha | 236 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 261.9 ha | 212 ha | 331 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 363.9 ha | 326 ha | 386 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 382.6 ha | 381 ha | 385 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 11 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 3,201 ha compare
- 11 South Africa 40,599 ha compare
- 12 Cuba 31,952 ha compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,804 ha compare
- 13 Mexico 27,531 ha compare
- 13 Polynesia 2,249 ha compare
- 14 Pakistan 26,882 ha compare
- 15 Italy 21,090 ha compare
- 15 Micronesia 0 ha
- 16 Philippines 19,262 ha compare
- 16 Caribbean 52,702 ha compare
- 17 Malawi 19,156 ha compare
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- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 8.31 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 21.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.8374 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.11 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -1.73 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested in Melanesia?
- Pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested in Melanesia was 382 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 386 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 11 ha in 1978.
- How does Melanesia rank for pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 14th out of 15 countries with data for 2024.
- Is pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Melanesia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Pumpkins, squash and gourds — 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.