Cashew nuts, in shell — Yield by country
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...
What the numbers show
Cashew nuts, in shell — Yield is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 7,199 kg/ha in Colombia; the lowest is 77.6 kg/ha in Dominican Republic.
The median across all reporting countries is 852.5 kg/ha, and the mean is 1,331 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 93.
Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Belize (up 660.0%), and the largest decrease in Mexico (down 72.9%).
Cashew nuts, in shell — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombia | 7,199 kg/ha | 2024 | up 82.7% | falling |
| 1 | Viet Nam | 1,079 kg/ha | 2024 | up 27.0% | rising |
| 2 | Peru | 5,308 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.9% | flat |
| 3 | Philippines | 5,268 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.8% | volatile |
| 4 | Malaysia | 2,192 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 5 | Malawi | 2,147 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | flat |
| 6 | Guinea | 1,783 kg/ha | 2024 | up 26.2% | rising |
| 6 | Côte d'Ivoire | 661.4 kg/ha | 2024 | up 58.1% | volatile |
| 6 | United Republic of Tanzania | 398.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 32.8% | falling |
| 7 | Gambia | 1,720 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | flat |
| 8 | Thailand | 1,608 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.0% | rising |
| 9 | Togo | 1,534 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 10 | Honduras | 1,449 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 11 | Burkina Faso | 1,188 kg/ha | 2024 | up 25.6% | volatile |
| 12 | Belize | 1,175 kg/ha | 2015 | up 660.0% | volatile |
| 13 | Sri Lanka | 1,118 kg/ha | 2024 | up 276.6% | volatile |
| 14 | Mali | 1,105 kg/ha | 2024 | down 44.5% | rising |
| 15 | China | 1,091 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.7% | volatile |
| 15 | China, mainland | 1,091 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Caribbean | 77.6 kg/ha | 2024 | down 26.5% | falling |
| 17 | Myanmar | 860.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 18 | Mozambique | 844.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 19 | Angola | 808.1 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.1% | rising |
| 20 | Mexico | 798.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 72.9% | volatile |
| 21 | El Salvador | 764.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 44.1% | falling |
| 22 | India | 662.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.0% | rising |
| 23 | Guinea-Bissau | 571.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 22.6% | rising |
| 24 | Ghana | 535.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.0% | rising |
| 25 | Nigeria | 475.5 kg/ha | 2024 | down 39.2% | volatile |
| 26 | Madagascar | 472.9 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.4% | rising |
| 27 | Benin | 436.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 34.2% | volatile |
| 28 | Senegal | 404 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 29 | Brazil | 353.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 105.8% | falling |
| 30 | Kenya | 321.8 kg/ha | 2024 | down 68.6% | rising |
| 31 | Indonesia | 321.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 29.9% | rising |
| 32 | Dominican Republic | 77.6 kg/ha | 2024 | down 26.5% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1,159 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 1,091 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 808.1 kg/ha
- Central America 1,042 kg/ha
- Asia 724.2 kg/ha
- South-Eastern Asia 811.1 kg/ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 545.8 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 668.8 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 541.4 kg/ha
- Western Africa 641.9 kg/ha
- World 611.1 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 586 kg/ha
- Africa 575.3 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 538.7 kg/ha
- South America 476.8 kg/ha
- Americas 474 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 447.1 kg/ha
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.