Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Vegetables Primary — Area harvested was 1.06 million ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Vegetables Primary — Area harvested in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Middle Africa recorded 1.06 million ha for vegetables primary — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 3.7% on the previous year and up 17.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — area harvested in Middle Africa peaked at 1.06 million ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 128,398 ha, in 1962.
Middle Africa ranks 14th of 41 regions on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 140,660 ha | 128,398 ha | 153,675 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 183,902 ha | 159,081 ha | 204,690 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 211,454 ha | 200,338 ha | 222,073 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 372,108 ha | 285,707 ha | 464,432 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 577,408 ha | 475,926 ha | 794,320 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 907,279 ha | 810,605 ha | 983,891 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.02 million ha | 999,995 ha | 1.06 million ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Middle Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 57 kg/An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 8.08 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 113,974 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 19,128 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 2.18 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 16,416 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 13,891 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 270,208 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 4.75 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 7.03 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — area harvested in Middle Africa?
- Vegetables primary — area harvested in Middle Africa was 1.06 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1.06 million ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — area harvested recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 128,398 ha in 1962.
- How does Middle Africa rank for vegetables primary — area harvested?
- Middle Africa ranks 14th out of 41 regions with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — area harvested rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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.