Cereals n.e.c. — Yield in Central America
Central America: Cereals n.e.c. — Yield was 1,927 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cereals n.e.c. — Yield in Central America, 1982–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cereals n.e.c. — yield in Central America is 1,927 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 7.6% on the previous year and up 47.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals n.e.c. — yield in Central America peaked at 2,003 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 300 kg/ha, in 1983.
Central America ranks 8th of 24 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 43 years of available data.
Cereals n.e.c. — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 510.3 kg/ha | — |
| 1983 | 300 kg/ha | -41.2% |
| 1984 | 700 kg/ha | +133.3% |
| 1985 | 782 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1986 | 949.4 kg/ha | +21.4% |
| 1987 | 1,046 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1988 | 1,308 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 1989 | 1,045 kg/ha | -20.1% |
| 1990 | 835.6 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1991 | 1,132 kg/ha | +35.4% |
| 1992 | 1,148 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1993 | 891.4 kg/ha | -22.3% |
| 1994 | 1,181 kg/ha | +32.5% |
| 1995 | 1,218 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1996 | 1,224 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1997 | 1,214 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1998 | 1,050 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 1999 | 1,826 kg/ha | +74.0% |
| 2000 | 1,359 kg/ha | -25.6% |
| 2001 | 1,468 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2002 | 1,199 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 2003 | 1,617 kg/ha | +34.9% |
| 2004 | 1,601 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2005 | 1,458 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2006 | 1,548 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2007 | 1,650 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2008 | 1,282 kg/ha | -22.3% |
| 2009 | 1,509 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 2010 | 1,228 kg/ha | -18.6% |
| 2011 | 1,259 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2012 | 1,300 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2013 | 1,238 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2014 | 1,306 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2015 | 1,338 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2016 | 1,332 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2017 | 1,575 kg/ha | +18.2% |
| 2018 | 2,003 kg/ha | +27.2% |
| 2019 | 1,738 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 2020 | 1,936 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 2021 | 1,934 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,781 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2023 | 1,790 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 1,927 kg/ha | +7.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cereals n.e.c. — Yield in Central 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | +133.3% | 300 kg/ha | 700 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 830.16 kg/ha | 300 kg/ha | 1,308 kg/ha | 8 |
| 1990s | 1,172 kg/ha | 835.6 kg/ha | 1,826 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,469 kg/ha | 1,199 kg/ha | 1,650 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,432 kg/ha | 1,228 kg/ha | 2,003 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,874 kg/ha | 1,781 kg/ha | 1,936 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
- 5 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 634 kg/ha compare
- 5 Qatar 5,000 kg/ha compare
- 6 Saudi Arabia 4,261 kg/ha compare
- 7 Czechoslovakia 4,000 kg/ha compare
- 8 Uzbekistan 3,790 kg/ha compare
- 9 Georgia 3,530 kg/ha compare
- 10 Belgium 3,472 kg/ha compare
- 11 Palestine 3,254 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.22 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -1.15 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -3.58 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -10.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -1.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.7054 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4048 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -9.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.8347 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals n.e.c. — yield in Central America?
- Cereals n.e.c. — yield in Central America was 1,927 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals n.e.c. — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 2,003 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest cereals n.e.c. — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 300 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Central America rank for cereals n.e.c. — yield?
- Central America ranks 8th out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cereals n.e.c. — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 47.6%. 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 Cereals n.e.c. — 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.