Apples — Yield in Central America
Central America: Apples — Yield was 13,588 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Apples — Yield in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for apples — yield in Central America is 13,588 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 3.7% on the previous year and up 18.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, apples — yield in Central America peaked at 14,112 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 4,678 kg/ha, in 1977.
That places Central America 20th out of 25 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Apples — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 9,873 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,800 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1963 | 11,178 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1964 | 11,354 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1965 | 11,407 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1966 | 11,472 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1967 | 9,972 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 1968 | 10,188 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1969 | 9,275 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1970 | 9,086 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1971 | 10,307 kg/ha | +13.4% |
| 1972 | 7,532 kg/ha | -26.9% |
| 1973 | 5,682 kg/ha | -24.6% |
| 1974 | 6,625 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 1975 | 6,024 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1976 | 9,475 kg/ha | +57.3% |
| 1977 | 4,678 kg/ha | -50.6% |
| 1978 | 6,576 kg/ha | +40.6% |
| 1979 | 6,750 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1980 | 5,526 kg/ha | -18.1% |
| 1981 | 6,918 kg/ha | +25.2% |
| 1982 | 7,204 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1983 | 6,442 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1984 | 8,478 kg/ha | +31.6% |
| 1985 | 8,020 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1986 | 8,778 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1987 | 10,013 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 1988 | 8,640 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 1989 | 8,844 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1990 | 7,958 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1991 | 9,113 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 1992 | 9,897 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1993 | 8,157 kg/ha | -17.6% |
| 1994 | 8,000 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1995 | 6,865 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 1996 | 7,208 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1997 | 10,044 kg/ha | +39.3% |
| 1998 | 6,470 kg/ha | -35.6% |
| 1999 | 7,091 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2000 | 6,355 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 2001 | 7,232 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 2002 | 7,884 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 2003 | 8,931 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 2004 | 9,562 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2005 | 9,659 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2006 | 10,206 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2007 | 8,838 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 2008 | 8,936 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 9,012 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 9,255 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2011 | 9,979 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2012 | 6,217 kg/ha | -37.7% |
| 2013 | 12,844 kg/ha | +106.6% |
| 2014 | 11,508 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 2015 | 12,034 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2016 | 11,825 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2017 | 11,784 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2018 | 11,168 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2019 | 12,641 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 2020 | 11,482 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 2021 | 10,550 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2022 | 13,704 kg/ha | +29.9% |
| 2023 | 14,112 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2024 | 13,588 kg/ha | -3.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Apples — Yield in Central America changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | +106.6% | 6,217 kg/ha | 12,844 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,613 kg/ha | 9,275 kg/ha | 11,472 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,274 kg/ha | 4,678 kg/ha | 10,307 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,886 kg/ha | 5,526 kg/ha | 10,013 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,080 kg/ha | 6,470 kg/ha | 10,044 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,661 kg/ha | 6,355 kg/ha | 10,206 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,926 kg/ha | 6,217 kg/ha | 12,844 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,687 kg/ha | 10,550 kg/ha | 14,112 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is apples — yield in Central America?
- Apples — yield in Central America was 13,588 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest apples — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 14,112 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest apples — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,678 kg/ha in 1977.
- How does Central America rank for apples — yield?
- Central America ranks 20th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is apples — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Apples — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.