Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Area harvested was 171 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Trinidad and Tobago recorded 171 ha for pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested in 2024.
That represents a change of down 60.2% on the previous year and down 81.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 982 ha in 2008 and was at its lowest, 70 ha, in 1961.
That places Trinidad and Tobago 98th out of 122 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 70 ha | — |
| 1962 | 75 ha | +7.1% |
| 1963 | 75 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 80 ha | +6.7% |
| 1965 | 80 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 80 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 100 ha | +25.0% |
| 1968 | 85 ha | -15.0% |
| 1969 | 100 ha | +17.6% |
| 1970 | 95 ha | -5.0% |
| 1971 | 160 ha | +68.4% |
| 1972 | 230 ha | +43.8% |
| 1973 | 360 ha | +56.5% |
| 1974 | 364 ha | +1.1% |
| 1975 | 300 ha | -17.6% |
| 1976 | 300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 320 ha | +6.7% |
| 1978 | 268 ha | -16.2% |
| 1979 | 350 ha | +30.6% |
| 1980 | 400 ha | +14.3% |
| 1981 | 380 ha | -5.0% |
| 1982 | 370 ha | -2.6% |
| 1983 | 300 ha | -18.9% |
| 1984 | 220 ha | -26.7% |
| 1985 | 180 ha | -18.2% |
| 1986 | 200 ha | +11.1% |
| 1987 | 150 ha | -25.0% |
| 1988 | 100 ha | -33.3% |
| 1989 | 350 ha | +250.0% |
| 1990 | 300 ha | -14.3% |
| 1991 | 266 ha | -11.3% |
| 1992 | 360 ha | +35.3% |
| 1993 | 380 ha | +5.6% |
| 1994 | 440 ha | +15.8% |
| 1995 | 550 ha | +25.0% |
| 1996 | 500 ha | -9.1% |
| 1997 | 550 ha | +10.0% |
| 1998 | 560 ha | +1.8% |
| 1999 | 160 ha | -71.4% |
| 2000 | 850 ha | +431.2% |
| 2001 | 450 ha | -47.1% |
| 2002 | 487 ha | +8.2% |
| 2003 | 500 ha | +2.7% |
| 2004 | 400 ha | -20.0% |
| 2005 | 180 ha | -55.0% |
| 2006 | 220 ha | +22.2% |
| 2007 | 701 ha | +218.6% |
| 2008 | 982 ha | +40.1% |
| 2009 | 738 ha | -24.8% |
| 2010 | 369 ha | -50.0% |
| 2011 | 429 ha | +16.3% |
| 2012 | 702 ha | +63.6% |
| 2013 | 578 ha | -17.7% |
| 2014 | 919 ha | +59.0% |
| 2015 | 850 ha | -7.5% |
| 2016 | 808 ha | -4.9% |
| 2017 | 671 ha | -17.0% |
| 2018 | 670 ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 633 ha | -5.5% |
| 2020 | 461 ha | -27.2% |
| 2021 | 225 ha | -51.2% |
| 2022 | 206 ha | -8.4% |
| 2023 | 430 ha | +108.7% |
| 2024 | 171 ha | -60.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 82.78 ha | 70 ha | 100 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 274.7 ha | 95 ha | 364 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 265 ha | 100 ha | 400 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 406.6 ha | 160 ha | 560 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 550.8 ha | 180 ha | 982 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 662.9 ha | 369 ha | 919 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 298.6 ha | 171 ha | 461 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested in Trinidad and Tobago was 171 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 Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 982 ha in 2008.
- What is the lowest pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 70 ha in 1961.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 98th out of 122 countries with data for 2024.
- Is pumpkins, squash and gourds — area harvested rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is down 81.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Trinidad and Tobago 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.