Rice — Area harvested in Caribbean
Caribbean: Rice — Area harvested was 281,862 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Area harvested in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Caribbean recorded 281,862 ha for rice — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 4.1% on the previous year and down 27.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — area harvested in Caribbean peaked at 475,900 ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 150,927 ha, in 1966.
Caribbean ranks 37th of 146 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 206,999 ha | 150,927 ha | 263,718 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 313,871 ha | 284,093 ha | 335,226 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 319,169 ha | 305,935 ha | 336,527 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 328,227 ha | 245,529 ha | 391,898 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 377,263 ha | 334,384 ha | 457,253 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 397,004 ha | 322,133 ha | 475,900 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 299,290 ha | 270,693 ha | 318,829 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
More agriculture & rural data for Caribbean
- Bananas — Area harvested 150,870 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.72 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 136,188 t (2024)
- Cabbages — Area harvested 8,527 ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Yield 19,733 kg/ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 168,261 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 7,589 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 1.91 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 13,712 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 1.91 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — area harvested in Caribbean?
- Rice — area harvested in Caribbean was 281,862 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — area harvested recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 475,900 ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest rice — area harvested recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 150,927 ha in 1966.
- How does Caribbean rank for rice — area harvested?
- Caribbean ranks 37th out of 146 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — area harvested rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is down 27.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Rice — 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.