Asparagus — Yield in Central America
Central America: Asparagus — Yield was 9,251 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Asparagus — Yield in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Central America recorded 9,251 kg/ha for asparagus — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 0.8% on the previous year and up 11.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, asparagus — yield in Central America peaked at 9,952 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 3,003 kg/ha, in 1996.
That places Central America 7th out of 24 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Asparagus — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,846 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,846 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 3,704 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1964 | 3,778 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1965 | 3,778 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 3,714 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1967 | 3,786 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1968 | 3,929 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1969 | 4,138 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1970 | 4,333 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1971 | 4,383 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1972 | 4,000 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1973 | 4,667 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1974 | 4,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 4,660 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1976 | 4,286 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1977 | 4,584 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1978 | 6,275 kg/ha | +36.9% |
| 1979 | 5,133 kg/ha | -18.2% |
| 1980 | 4,716 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1981 | 4,730 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1982 | 4,900 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1983 | 3,884 kg/ha | -20.7% |
| 1984 | 3,384 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 1985 | 4,804 kg/ha | +42.0% |
| 1986 | 4,778 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1987 | 5,951 kg/ha | +24.5% |
| 1988 | 5,238 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 1989 | 4,484 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1990 | 4,331 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1991 | 4,085 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1992 | 3,862 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1993 | 3,214 kg/ha | -16.8% |
| 1994 | 3,711 kg/ha | +15.5% |
| 1995 | 3,627 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1996 | 3,003 kg/ha | -17.2% |
| 1997 | 3,310 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1998 | 3,157 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1999 | 4,105 kg/ha | +30.0% |
| 2000 | 3,763 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 2001 | 4,426 kg/ha | +17.6% |
| 2002 | 4,003 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 2003 | 4,288 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2004 | 4,392 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2005 | 4,318 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2006 | 4,181 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2007 | 4,316 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2008 | 4,304 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2009 | 4,294 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2010 | 5,460 kg/ha | +27.1% |
| 2011 | 6,263 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 2012 | 7,373 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 2013 | 7,086 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2014 | 8,322 kg/ha | +17.5% |
| 2015 | 8,903 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 2016 | 8,742 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2017 | 9,393 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2018 | 9,013 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2019 | 8,821 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2020 | 9,405 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2021 | 9,425 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 9,952 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2023 | 9,327 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2024 | 9,251 kg/ha | -0.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,835 kg/ha | 3,704 kg/ha | 4,138 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,699 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 6,275 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,687 kg/ha | 3,384 kg/ha | 5,951 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,640 kg/ha | 3,003 kg/ha | 4,331 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,229 kg/ha | 3,763 kg/ha | 4,426 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,938 kg/ha | 5,460 kg/ha | 9,393 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,472 kg/ha | 9,251 kg/ha | 9,952 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is asparagus — yield in Central America?
- Asparagus — yield in Central America was 9,251 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest asparagus — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 9,952 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest asparagus — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,003 kg/ha in 1996.
- How does Central America rank for asparagus — yield?
- Central America ranks 7th out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is asparagus — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.2%. 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 Asparagus — 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.