Avocados — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Avocados — Yield was 6,069 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Avocados — Yield in Costa Rica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 6,069 kg/ha for avocados — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 8.3% on the previous year and up 867.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, avocados — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 8,219 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 599.1 kg/ha, in 2013.
Costa Rica ranks 47th of 69 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Avocados — Yield in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,625 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,471 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1963 | 6,500 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1964 | 6,421 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1965 | 6,400 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1966 | 6,650 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1967 | 6,409 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1968 | 6,435 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1969 | 6,500 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1970 | 6,520 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1971 | 6,923 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1972 | 7,778 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1973 | 7,933 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1974 | 8,000 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1975 | 8,064 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1976 | 7,969 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1977 | 7,879 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1978 | 7,879 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 7,941 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1980 | 7,857 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1981 | 7,778 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1982 | 5,750 kg/ha | -26.1% |
| 1983 | 5,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 5,750 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1985 | 5,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 5,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 5,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 5,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 5,641 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1990 | 5,610 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1991 | 5,558 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1992 | 5,524 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1993 | 5,419 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1994 | 5,318 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1995 | 5,222 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1996 | 4,945 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1997 | 4,730 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1998 | 4,510 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1999 | 4,286 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2000 | 4,059 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2001 | 3,829 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2002 | 3,599 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2003 | 3,085 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 2004 | 2,830 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 2005 | 2,455 kg/ha | -13.3% |
| 2006 | 2,227 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2007 | 2,004 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 2008 | 1,788 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 2009 | 1,579 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 2010 | 1,380 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 2011 | 1,193 kg/ha | -13.6% |
| 2012 | 837.7 kg/ha | -29.8% |
| 2013 | 599.1 kg/ha | -28.5% |
| 2014 | 627.6 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2015 | 4,047 kg/ha | +544.9% |
| 2016 | 4,000 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2017 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 3,431 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 2019 | 8,219 kg/ha | +139.6% |
| 2020 | 3,849 kg/ha | -53.2% |
| 2021 | 4,497 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 2022 | 4,730 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2023 | 5,604 kg/ha | +18.5% |
| 2024 | 6,069 kg/ha | +8.3% |
Costa Rica compared with similar countries
- Costa Rica's 6,069 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 8,047 kg/ha, 75% of the median. (18 countries reporting)
- Costa Rica's 6,069 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 8,908 kg/ha, 68% of the median. (26 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Avocados — Yield in Costa Rica 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | +544.9% | 627.6 kg/ha | 4,047 kg/ha |
| 2019 | +139.6% | 3,431 kg/ha | 8,219 kg/ha |
| 2020 | -53.2% | 8,219 kg/ha | 3,849 kg/ha |
| 2012 | -29.8% | 1,193 kg/ha | 837.7 kg/ha |
| 2013 | -28.5% | 837.7 kg/ha | 599.1 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,490 kg/ha | 6,400 kg/ha | 6,650 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,689 kg/ha | 6,520 kg/ha | 8,064 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,153 kg/ha | 5,641 kg/ha | 7,857 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,112 kg/ha | 4,286 kg/ha | 5,610 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,745 kg/ha | 1,579 kg/ha | 4,059 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,833 kg/ha | 599.1 kg/ha | 8,219 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,950 kg/ha | 3,849 kg/ha | 6,069 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0337 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 672.15 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.57 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2027 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is avocados — yield in Costa Rica?
- Avocados — yield in Costa Rica was 6,069 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest avocados — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 8,219 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest avocados — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 599.1 kg/ha in 2013.
- How does Costa Rica rank for avocados — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 47th out of 69 countries with data for 2024.
- Is avocados — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 867.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Costa Rica data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Avocados — 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.