Tea leaves — Area harvested in Seychelles
Seychelles: Tea leaves — Area harvested was 0 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Tea leaves — Area harvested in Seychelles, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for tea leaves — area harvested in Seychelles is 0 ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of down 100.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tea leaves — area harvested in Seychelles peaked at 500 ha in 2003 and was at its lowest, 0 ha, in 2023.
Seychelles ranks 44th of 45 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Tea leaves — Area harvested in Seychelles, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 30 ha | — |
| 1962 | 30 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 35 ha | +16.7% |
| 1964 | 35 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 40 ha | +14.3% |
| 1966 | 40 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 45 ha | +12.5% |
| 1968 | 45 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 50 ha | +11.1% |
| 1970 | 50 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 55 ha | +10.0% |
| 1972 | 55 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 60 ha | +9.1% |
| 1974 | 80 ha | +33.3% |
| 1975 | 100 ha | +25.0% |
| 1976 | 100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 95 ha | -5.0% |
| 1978 | 95 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 100 ha | +5.3% |
| 1980 | 95 ha | -5.0% |
| 1981 | 95 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 98 ha | +3.2% |
| 1983 | 272 ha | +177.6% |
| 1984 | 272 ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 272 ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 272 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 270 ha | -0.7% |
| 1988 | 270 ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 280 ha | +3.7% |
| 1990 | 400 ha | +42.9% |
| 1991 | 430 ha | +7.5% |
| 1992 | 420 ha | -2.3% |
| 1993 | 450 ha | +7.1% |
| 1994 | 456 ha | +1.3% |
| 1995 | 440 ha | -3.5% |
| 1996 | 416 ha | -5.5% |
| 1997 | 470 ha | +13.0% |
| 1998 | 450 ha | -4.3% |
| 1999 | 440 ha | -2.2% |
| 2000 | 450 ha | +2.3% |
| 2001 | 435 ha | -3.3% |
| 2002 | 422 ha | -3.0% |
| 2003 | 500 ha | +18.5% |
| 2004 | 450 ha | -10.0% |
| 2005 | 444 ha | -1.3% |
| 2006 | 390 ha | -12.2% |
| 2007 | 460 ha | +17.9% |
| 2008 | 290 ha | -37.0% |
| 2009 | 135 ha | -53.4% |
| 2010 | 104 ha | -23.0% |
| 2011 | 80 ha | -23.1% |
| 2012 | 59 ha | -26.2% |
| 2013 | 44 ha | -25.4% |
| 2014 | 57 ha | +29.5% |
| 2015 | 34 ha | -40.4% |
| 2016 | 37 ha | +8.8% |
| 2017 | 28 ha | -24.3% |
| 2018 | 7 ha | -75.0% |
| 2019 | 22 ha | +214.3% |
| 2020 | 20 ha | -9.1% |
| 2021 | 9 ha | -55.0% |
| 2022 | 15 ha | +66.7% |
| 2023 | 0 ha | -100.0% |
| 2024 | 0 ha | — |
Seychelles compared with similar countries
- Seychelles's 0 ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 4,868 ha. (15 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Tea leaves — Area harvested in Seychelles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | +214.3% | 7 ha | 22 ha |
| 1983 | +177.6% | 98 ha | 272 ha |
| 2023 | -100.0% | 15 ha | 0 ha |
| 2018 | -75.0% | 28 ha | 7 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 38.89 ha | 30 ha | 50 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 79 ha | 50 ha | 100 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 219.6 ha | 95 ha | 280 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 437.2 ha | 400 ha | 470 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 397.6 ha | 135 ha | 500 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 47.2 ha | 7 ha | 104 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8.8 ha | 0 ha | 20 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Seychelles
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.96 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0261 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 506.85 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.7772 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5452 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tea leaves — area harvested in Seychelles?
- Tea leaves — area harvested in Seychelles was 0 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tea leaves — area harvested recorded in Seychelles?
- The highest recorded value was 500 ha in 2003.
- What is the lowest tea leaves — area harvested recorded in Seychelles?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 ha in 2023.
- How does Seychelles rank for tea leaves — area harvested?
- Seychelles ranks 44th out of 45 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tea leaves — area harvested rising or falling in Seychelles?
- Over the last ten years it is down 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Seychelles data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Tea leaves — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.