Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Ghana
Ghana: Vegetables Primary — Area harvested was 84,243 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Ghana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for vegetables primary — area harvested in Ghana is 84,243 ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — area harvested in Ghana peaked at 137,600 ha in 1974 and was at its lowest, 46,700 ha, in 1961.
Ghana ranks 77th of 207 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 53,820 ha | 46,700 ha | 64,080 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 96,033 ha | 70,700 ha | 137,600 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 75,362 ha | 54,500 ha | 109,405 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 103,452 ha | 80,046 ha | 136,001 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 103,535 ha | 63,339 ha | 137,510 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 81,269 ha | 75,384 ha | 84,421 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 84,136 ha | 84,010 ha | 84,243 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture share gdp 21.28 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.28 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
- Rural population 41.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 14.40 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 24.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 135,063 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — area harvested in Ghana?
- Vegetables primary — area harvested in Ghana was 84,243 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 137,600 ha in 1974.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 46,700 ha in 1961.
- How does Ghana rank for vegetables primary — area harvested?
- Ghana ranks 77th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — area harvested rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Vegetables Primary — 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.