Table 1.
Basic characteristics of pre-pandemic agriculture in Central America and Mexico (CAM).
| Country |
Total population a |
Rural population c |
Country area and % of agricultural area b |
% of GDP from agriculture d |
Main agricultural imports e |
Main agricultural exports f |
Population under the national poverty lines i |
Remittances received and % of GDP k |
Prevalence of moderate and severe food insecurity j |
Adult overweight/ obesity g |
Child overweight / underweight h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Million | Million (%) | Million ha (%) | % | Crops | Crops | % | Million USD (%) | % | %/% | %/% | |
| Costa Rica | 5.0 | 1.02 (20) | 5110 (35) | 4.2 | Cereals, Fruits and vegetables, | Coffee, Sugar and honey, Bananas and plantains, pineapples, oil palm. | 21.0 | 553 (1) | 23.2 | 37 / 27 | 8.1/1.1 |
| El Salvador | 6.4 | 1.79 (28) | 2104 (76) | 5.1 | Cereals, Fruits and vegetables, | Coffee, Sugar and honey, beverages | 29.2 | 5656 (21) | 40 | 37 / 25 | 6.4 / 5 |
| Guatemala | 17.2 | 8.44 (49) | 10,889 (36) | 9.4 | Cereals. Fruits and vegetables, Meat, Fodder | Coffee, Sugar cane, Bananas and plantains, oil palm | 59.3 | 10,656 (14) | 43.6 | 36 / 22 | 4.9 / 12.4 |
| Honduras | 9.6 | 4.04 (42) | 11,249 (31) | 10.7 | Cereals, Fruits and vegetables Fodder | Coffee, Sugar, Bananas and plantains, Tobacco, Oil palm | 48.3 | 5401 (22) | 49.3 | 35 / 22 | 5.2 / 7.1 |
| Mexico | 126.2 | 25.9 (21) | 196,437 (55) | 3.5 | Cereals, Fruits and vegetables Meat, Oilseeds, | Avocadoes, Tomatoes Fruits and vegetables, Beer of barley | 41.9 | 38,629 (3) | 28 | 37 / 30 | 5.3 / 4.2 |
| Nicaragua | 6.5 | 2.61 (40) | 13,037 (42) | 15.4 | Cereals, Fruits and vegetables, fodder | Coffee, Sugar, Tobacco, Meat, Fruits and vegetables | 24.9 | 1654 (13) | _ | 35 / 24 | 8.3 / 4.6 |
| Panama | 4.2 | 1.34 (32) | 7532 (31) | 2.1 | Cereals, Fodder, Meat | Coffee, Sugar, Bananas and plantains, Fruits and vegetables, Beverages | 22.1 | 581 (1) | _ | 37 / 24 | 9.7 / 3.9 |
| ⁎ Central America or Latin America & Caribbean | 175.5 | 45.4 (26) | 248,655 (50) | 4.9 | Maize, Soybeans, Wheat | Coffee, Sugar, Avocados, Bananas, Tomatoes Beer of barley, | _ | 97,198 (2) | 37.1 | 37 / 28 | 7.5 / 2.7 |
| World | 7631.1 | 3413.0 (45) | 13,486,028 (36) | 4 | -_ | _ | _ | 653,323 (1) | 25.4 | 26 / 13 | 5.6/13 |
FAO (2020a) unit: million inhabitants. yr. 2018.
FAO (2020a) units: area in 1000 ha and (%). yr. 2017.
FAO (2020a) units: million and (%). yr. 2018.
The World Bank, data retrieved for 2019 except the World statistic for 2018, units: %.
FAO (2020a)) yr. 2017,
FAO (2020a) yr. 2017,
GAIN-JHU, 2020 units: % / %. yr. 2016.
The World Bank (2020) units: % / %. yr. 2008 (Costa Rica and Panama), yr. 2012 (Nicaragua and Honduras), yr. 2014 (El Salvador), yr. 2015 (Guatemala), yr. 2016 (Mexico), yr. 2019 (Latin America and World)
The World Bank (2020) yr. 2014 (Guatemala), yr. 2016 (Nicaragua and Panama), yr. 2017 (El Salvador), yr. 2018 (Honduras and Mexico), yr. 2019 (Costa Rica), − data not available.
The World Bank (2020) unit: %. yr. 2017
The World Bank (2020) units: million USD and %. yr. 2019
Data was retrieved for Central America from FAOSTAT and for Latin America from The World Bank.