Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Yield in El Salvador
El Salvador: Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Yield was 62,562 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Yield in El Salvador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
El Salvador recorded 62,562 kg/ha for chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.3% on the previous year and up 177.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield in El Salvador peaked at 62,562 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 5,953 kg/ha, in 1990.
That places El Salvador 17th out of 126 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Yield in El Salvador, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,250 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,250 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 6,471 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1964 | 6,471 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 6,471 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 6,389 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1967 | 6,667 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1968 | 6,842 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1969 | 6,900 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1970 | 7,200 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1971 | 7,471 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1972 | 7,000 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1973 | 6,500 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1974 | 6,000 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1975 | 6,242 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1976 | 6,433 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1977 | 6,611 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1978 | 6,425 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1979 | 6,190 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1980 | 6,364 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1981 | 6,364 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 6,522 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1983 | 6,458 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1984 | 6,400 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1985 | 6,400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 6,538 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1987 | 6,538 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 6,667 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1989 | 6,786 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1990 | 5,953 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 1991 | 6,897 kg/ha | +15.9% |
| 1992 | 6,897 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 7,000 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1994 | 7,097 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1995 | 7,188 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1996 | 7,188 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 7,273 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1998 | 7,368 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1999 | 7,352 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2000 | 8,079 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2001 | 8,261 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2002 | 8,261 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 26,031 kg/ha | +215.1% |
| 2004 | 16,460 kg/ha | -36.8% |
| 2005 | 19,929 kg/ha | +21.1% |
| 2006 | 19,932 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 19,717 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2008 | 19,718 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 20,747 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2010 | 20,747 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 17,436 kg/ha | -16.0% |
| 2012 | 17,493 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 22,317 kg/ha | +27.6% |
| 2014 | 22,568 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 22,307 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2016 | 22,324 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 39,247 kg/ha | +75.8% |
| 2018 | 37,474 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2019 | 54,110 kg/ha | +44.4% |
| 2020 | 43,810 kg/ha | -19.0% |
| 2021 | 59,618 kg/ha | +36.1% |
| 2022 | 58,023 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2023 | 58,856 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2024 | 62,562 kg/ha | +6.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,523 kg/ha | 6,250 kg/ha | 6,900 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,607 kg/ha | 6,000 kg/ha | 7,471 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,504 kg/ha | 6,364 kg/ha | 6,786 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,021 kg/ha | 5,953 kg/ha | 7,368 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,713 kg/ha | 8,079 kg/ha | 26,031 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 27,602 kg/ha | 17,436 kg/ha | 54,110 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 56,574 kg/ha | 43,810 kg/ha | 62,562 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near El Salvador
- 14 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 2,008 kg/ha compare
- 14 Israel 68,740 kg/ha compare
- 15 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1,613 kg/ha compare
- 15 Spain 64,622 kg/ha compare
- 16 Uruguay 64,105 kg/ha compare
- 18 Qatar 50,712 kg/ha compare
- 19 Japan 46,885 kg/ha compare
- 20 Czechia 46,643 kg/ha compare
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.044 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 253.9 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2448 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield in El Salvador?
- Chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield in El Salvador was 62,562 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 62,562 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,953 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does El Salvador rank for chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield?
- El Salvador ranks 17th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 177.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this El Salvador data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — 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.