Ecuador vs Madagascar: Cocoa bean yields

Ecuador

0.7454 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Madagascar

0.8944 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Ecuador rank

7th

Madagascar rank

5th

Cocoa bean yields over time

Madagascar currently reports 0.8944 tonnes per hectare against 0.7454 tonnes per hectare in Ecuador, a difference of 0.149 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.2 times Ecuador's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Madagascar ahead.

Ecuador ranks 7th and Madagascar ranks 5th of 61 countries.

Indicator: Cocoa bean yields
Unit: tonnes per hectare
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 61 places, 3,632 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Yield is the amount produced per unit of land used, measured in tonnes per hectare.