Cereals, primary — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Cereals, primary — Yield was 2,408 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cereals, primary — Yield in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Caribbean recorded 2,408 kg/ha for cereals, primary — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 7.2% on the previous year and up 18.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cereals, primary — yield in Caribbean peaked at 2,939 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 1,176 kg/ha, in 1961.
Caribbean ranks 20th of 29 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cereals, primary — Yield in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,176 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,191 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1963 | 1,250 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1964 | 1,243 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1965 | 1,232 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1966 | 1,271 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1967 | 1,250 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1968 | 1,240 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1969 | 1,350 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1970 | 1,413 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1971 | 1,472 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1972 | 1,428 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1973 | 1,381 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1974 | 1,688 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1975 | 1,662 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1976 | 1,862 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 1977 | 1,698 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1978 | 1,614 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1979 | 1,711 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1980 | 1,845 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1981 | 1,886 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1982 | 2,045 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1983 | 2,079 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1984 | 2,062 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1985 | 1,981 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1986 | 1,934 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1987 | 1,869 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1988 | 1,817 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1989 | 1,905 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1990 | 1,981 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1991 | 1,865 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1992 | 1,875 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1993 | 1,560 kg/ha | -16.8% |
| 1994 | 1,585 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1995 | 1,746 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1996 | 1,815 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1997 | 1,865 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1998 | 1,691 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 1999 | 2,012 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 2000 | 1,996 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2001 | 2,181 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 2002 | 2,362 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2003 | 2,304 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2004 | 2,133 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 2005 | 2,044 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2006 | 2,177 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2007 | 2,110 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2008 | 2,200 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2009 | 1,891 kg/ha | -14.1% |
| 2010 | 1,842 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2011 | 2,078 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 2012 | 2,245 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2013 | 2,161 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2014 | 2,036 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2015 | 2,330 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 2016 | 2,402 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2017 | 2,180 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 2018 | 2,059 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2019 | 2,939 kg/ha | +42.8% |
| 2020 | 2,446 kg/ha | -16.8% |
| 2021 | 2,469 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2022 | 2,446 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2023 | 2,247 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2024 | 2,408 kg/ha | +7.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cereals, primary — Yield in Caribbean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | +42.8% | 2,059 kg/ha | 2,939 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,245 kg/ha | 1,176 kg/ha | 1,350 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,593 kg/ha | 1,381 kg/ha | 1,862 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,942 kg/ha | 1,817 kg/ha | 2,079 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,799 kg/ha | 1,560 kg/ha | 2,012 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,140 kg/ha | 1,891 kg/ha | 2,362 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,227 kg/ha | 1,842 kg/ha | 2,939 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,403 kg/ha | 2,247 kg/ha | 2,469 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean
- 17 Austria 6,722 kg/ha compare
- 17 Syrian Arab Republic 1,607 kg/ha compare
- 18 Chile 6,606 kg/ha compare
- 19 Côte d'Ivoire 2,542 kg/ha compare
- 19 Democratic Republic of the Congo 871.8 kg/ha compare
- 19 Slovenia 6,586 kg/ha compare
- 20 Croatia 6,570 kg/ha compare
- 21 Guyana 6,563 kg/ha compare
- 22 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 6,558 kg/ha compare
- 23 Republic of Korea 6,544 kg/ha compare
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- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.41 % change on previous year (2024)
- Non Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.21 % change on previous year (2024)
- Milk, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.79 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat indigenous, total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.21 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 2.96 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 14.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 9.37 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cereals, primary — yield in Caribbean?
- Cereals, primary — yield in Caribbean was 2,408 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cereals, primary — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 2,939 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest cereals, primary — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,176 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Caribbean rank for cereals, primary — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 20th out of 29 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cereals, primary — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cereals, primary — 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.