Treenuts, Total — Area harvested in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Treenuts, Total — Area harvested was 15,747 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Treenuts, Total — Area harvested in Sri Lanka, 1980–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for treenuts, total — area harvested in Sri Lanka is 15,747 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.1% on the previous year and down 26.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, treenuts, total — area harvested in Sri Lanka peaked at 29,500 ha in 1988 and was at its lowest, 14,619 ha, in 2021.
That places Sri Lanka 52nd out of 133 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 45 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 25,350 ha | 20,000 ha | 29,500 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 22,588 ha | 19,588 ha | 26,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 22,436 ha | 19,950 ha | 23,750 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,402 ha | 16,758 ha | 23,090 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,312 ha | 14,619 ha | 15,747 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
- 49 Croatia 19,180 ha compare
- 50 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 17,450 ha compare
- 51 Uzbekistan 16,620 ha compare
- 53 Czechoslovakia 15,481 ha compare
- 54 Japan 15,200 ha compare
- 55 Argentina 15,005 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Rural population 79.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 17.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 8,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is treenuts, total — area harvested in Sri Lanka?
- Treenuts, total — area harvested in Sri Lanka was 15,747 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest treenuts, total — area harvested recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 29,500 ha in 1988.
- What is the lowest treenuts, total — area harvested recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,619 ha in 2021.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for treenuts, total — area harvested?
- Sri Lanka ranks 52nd out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is treenuts, total — area harvested rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 26.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sri Lanka data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Treenuts, 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.