DATABenin
about 55 tonnes (FAOSTAT 2024, estimated value)Sourced statistical reference pointSourced statistical reference point: FAOSTAT production, reading of the series and documentary limits. Region: Africa.
Benin was missing from the atlas although FAOSTAT still records a production of green coffee there. This page integrates it without inventing a terroir profile for it. It establishes the statistical presence and shows the available series.
This profile level is deliberately more sober than the editorial dossiers. It does not allow deducing species, varieties, processes, quality or exported volumes.
- Geographic status
- country
- Name in FAOSTAT
- Benin
- Latest value
- about 55 tonnes in 2024
- Nature of the value
- estimated value
- Start of the positive series
- 1961
- Series maximum
- 3,000 tonnes in 1984, figure from an external organization
Confirmed coverage: national or territorial production of green coffee in the FAOSTAT database.
History
The first positive value kept in this series dates from 1961. This reference point dates neither the introduction of the coffee plant nor the real start of its cultivation. It only indicates the observable start in this dataset.
FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products, item Coffee, green, code 656, element Production, code 5510.Today
The most recent value is about 55 tonnes for 2024. FAOSTAT qualifies it as an “estimated value.” This status is essential: an imputed value must not be read as a field census.
Gray areas
- The series does not distinguish here between arabica, canephora and other species.
- It does not say what share is exported, consumed locally or lost.
- It is not enough to tell the story of the producers, the territories and the political history of the sector.