Asparagus — Yield in South America
South America: Asparagus — Yield was 10,582 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Asparagus — Yield in South America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, asparagus — yield in South America stood at 10,582 kg/ha.
The figure is down 2.7% on the previous year and down 2.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, asparagus — yield in South America peaked at 10,872 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 3,005 kg/ha, in 1980.
South America ranks 5th of 24 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Asparagus — Yield in South America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,138 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,248 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1963 | 4,206 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1964 | 4,345 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1965 | 4,289 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1966 | 4,089 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1967 | 4,876 kg/ha | +19.2% |
| 1968 | 4,099 kg/ha | -15.9% |
| 1969 | 4,059 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1970 | 4,814 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 1971 | 4,251 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1972 | 4,914 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 1973 | 5,106 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1974 | 4,130 kg/ha | -19.1% |
| 1975 | 4,512 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1976 | 4,792 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1977 | 5,004 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1978 | 4,833 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1979 | 4,746 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1980 | 3,005 kg/ha | -36.7% |
| 1981 | 3,335 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1982 | 3,458 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1983 | 3,477 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1984 | 3,877 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1985 | 4,264 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1986 | 3,593 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 1987 | 3,655 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1988 | 3,789 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1989 | 4,135 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1990 | 4,874 kg/ha | +17.9% |
| 1991 | 4,861 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1992 | 5,008 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1993 | 5,051 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1994 | 6,557 kg/ha | +29.8% |
| 1995 | 5,023 kg/ha | -23.4% |
| 1996 | 5,275 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1997 | 7,385 kg/ha | +40.0% |
| 1998 | 7,372 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1999 | 7,982 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2000 | 7,115 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 2001 | 8,285 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 2002 | 8,167 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2003 | 8,762 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2004 | 8,646 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2005 | 9,382 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2006 | 10,858 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 2007 | 10,798 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2008 | 10,071 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2009 | 9,760 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2010 | 9,846 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2011 | 10,758 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 2012 | 10,358 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2013 | 10,426 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2014 | 10,799 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2015 | 10,045 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2016 | 10,812 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2017 | 10,724 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2018 | 10,301 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2019 | 10,137 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2020 | 10,196 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 10,491 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2022 | 10,550 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2023 | 10,872 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2024 | 10,582 kg/ha | -2.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Asparagus — Yield in South 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | +40.0% | 5,275 kg/ha | 7,385 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,261 kg/ha | 4,059 kg/ha | 4,876 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,710 kg/ha | 4,130 kg/ha | 5,106 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,659 kg/ha | 3,005 kg/ha | 4,264 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,939 kg/ha | 4,861 kg/ha | 7,982 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,184 kg/ha | 7,115 kg/ha | 10,858 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,421 kg/ha | 9,846 kg/ha | 10,812 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,538 kg/ha | 10,196 kg/ha | 10,872 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is asparagus — yield in South America?
- Asparagus — yield in South America was 10,582 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest asparagus — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 10,872 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest asparagus — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,005 kg/ha in 1980.
- How does South America rank for asparagus — yield?
- South America ranks 5th out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is asparagus — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South 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.