Watermelons — Area harvested in Melanesia
Melanesia: Watermelons — Area harvested was 18,464 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Watermelons — Area harvested in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for watermelons — area harvested in Melanesia is 18,464 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 2,844.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — area harvested in Melanesia peaked at 18,464 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 13 ha, in 1961.
That places Melanesia 31st out of 143 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
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 | 15.22 ha | 13 ha | 17 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 19.9 ha | 18 ha | 22 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 25.3 ha | 23 ha | 28 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 166 ha | 30 ha | 268 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 281.9 ha | 220 ha | 312 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 406.5 ha | 243 ha | 627 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,261 ha | 506 ha | 18,464 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 28 Egypt 21,455 ha compare
- 29 Tajikistan 20,957 ha compare
- 30 Libya 19,623 ha compare
- 32 Serbia and Montenegro 18,456 ha compare
- 33 Sudan (former) 16,968 ha compare
- 34 Iraq 15,543 ha compare
More environment data for Melanesia
- Standard Deviation 0.179 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 0.857 °C (2025)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per value of agricultural 1.3 g/Int$ (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 7.8 g/Int$ (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Import quantity 6,033 t (2024)
- Value Added Deflator (Agriculture, forestry and fishery) — Value US$ 118.85 USD (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Agricultural Use 6,096 t (2024)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Use per area of cropland 3.85 kg/ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Import quantity 21,133 t (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per area of cropland 13.44 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — area harvested in Melanesia?
- Watermelons — area harvested in Melanesia was 18,464 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 18,464 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest watermelons — area harvested recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 13 ha in 1961.
- How does Melanesia rank for watermelons — area harvested?
- Melanesia ranks 31st out of 143 countries with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — area harvested rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2,844.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Melanesia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Watermelons — 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.