Carrots and turnips — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Carrots and turnips — Yield was 28,132 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Costa Rica, 1990–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 28,132 kg/ha for carrots and turnips — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 1.7% on the previous year and down 19.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, carrots and turnips — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 35,556 kg/ha in 2007 and was at its lowest, 22,463 kg/ha, in 2018.
Costa Rica ranks 60th of 133 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 35 years of available data.
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 35,294 kg/ha | — |
| 1991 | 34,783 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1992 | 34,483 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1993 | 35,294 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1994 | 34,921 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1995 | 35,294 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1996 | 35,294 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 35,135 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1998 | 35,000 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1999 | 35,165 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2000 | 35,165 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 35,294 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2002 | 35,185 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2003 | 35,185 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 35,088 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2005 | 35,088 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 35,000 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2007 | 35,556 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2008 | 34,995 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2009 | 34,262 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2010 | 35,196 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2011 | 35,516 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 35,347 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2013 | 35,030 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2014 | 34,717 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2015 | 34,696 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 34,488 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2017 | 34,776 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2018 | 22,463 kg/ha | -35.4% |
| 2019 | 27,713 kg/ha | +23.4% |
| 2020 | 30,030 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2021 | 27,324 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 2022 | 28,385 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2023 | 28,628 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2024 | 28,132 kg/ha | -1.7% |
Costa Rica compared with similar countries
- Costa Rica's 28,132 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 35,062 kg/ha, 80% of the median. (49 countries reporting)
- Costa Rica's 28,132 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 18,419 kg/ha, 1.5× the median. (24 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Carrots and turnips — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | -35.4% | 34,776 kg/ha | 22,463 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 35,066 kg/ha | 34,483 kg/ha | 35,294 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 35,082 kg/ha | 34,262 kg/ha | 35,556 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 32,994 kg/ha | 22,463 kg/ha | 35,516 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 28,500 kg/ha | 27,324 kg/ha | 30,030 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Costa Rica
More agriculture & rural data for Costa Rica
- 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 carrots and turnips — yield in Costa Rica?
- Carrots and turnips — yield in Costa Rica was 28,132 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 35,556 kg/ha in 2007.
- What is the lowest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 22,463 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Costa Rica rank for carrots and turnips — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 60th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is carrots and turnips — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 19.0%. 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 Carrots and turnips — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.