Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago: Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Yield was 2,235 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield in Trinidad and Tobago stood at 2,235 kg/ha.
The figure is up 13.3% on the previous year and down 45.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield in Trinidad and Tobago peaked at 8,554 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 1,610 kg/ha, in 2013.
That places Trinidad and Tobago 122nd out of 126 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Chillies and peppers, green (Capsicum spp. and Pimenta spp.) — Yield in Trinidad and Tobago, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,143 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,500 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1963 | 7,356 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1964 | 7,160 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1965 | 7,636 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1966 | 7,400 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1967 | 7,291 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1968 | 7,033 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1969 | 7,073 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1970 | 7,327 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1971 | 7,500 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1972 | 7,692 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1973 | 8,000 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1974 | 8,125 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1975 | 8,125 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 8,171 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1977 | 8,095 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1978 | 7,931 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1979 | 7,954 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1980 | 7,647 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1981 | 7,882 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1982 | 8,046 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1983 | 8,161 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1984 | 7,647 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1985 | 7,294 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1986 | 7,333 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1987 | 6,944 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1988 | 6,000 kg/ha | -13.6% |
| 1989 | 6,114 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1990 | 5,475 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 1991 | 6,543 kg/ha | +19.5% |
| 1992 | 6,556 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 5,725 kg/ha | -12.7% |
| 1994 | 5,871 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1995 | 5,935 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1996 | 7,186 kg/ha | +21.1% |
| 1997 | 4,014 kg/ha | -44.1% |
| 1998 | 4,817 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1999 | 5,084 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2000 | 4,978 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2001 | 4,870 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2002 | 4,859 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2003 | 4,857 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2004 | 4,833 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 4,839 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 4,746 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2007 | 5,000 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2008 | 4,670 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2009 | 4,574 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2010 | 4,580 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 4,309 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2012 | 3,420 kg/ha | -20.6% |
| 2013 | 1,610 kg/ha | -52.9% |
| 2014 | 4,132 kg/ha | +156.6% |
| 2015 | 4,358 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2016 | 6,207 kg/ha | +42.4% |
| 2017 | 2,742 kg/ha | -55.8% |
| 2018 | 8,554 kg/ha | +212.0% |
| 2019 | 3,256 kg/ha | -61.9% |
| 2020 | 3,992 kg/ha | +22.6% |
| 2021 | 7,374 kg/ha | +84.7% |
| 2022 | 6,075 kg/ha | -17.6% |
| 2023 | 1,973 kg/ha | -67.5% |
| 2024 | 2,235 kg/ha | +13.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,288 kg/ha | 7,033 kg/ha | 7,636 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,892 kg/ha | 7,327 kg/ha | 8,171 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,307 kg/ha | 6,000 kg/ha | 8,161 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,721 kg/ha | 4,014 kg/ha | 7,186 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,823 kg/ha | 4,574 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,317 kg/ha | 1,610 kg/ha | 8,554 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,330 kg/ha | 1,973 kg/ha | 7,374 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield in Trinidad and Tobago was 2,235 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 Trinidad and Tobago?
- The highest recorded value was 8,554 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield recorded in Trinidad and Tobago?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,610 kg/ha in 2013.
- How does Trinidad and Tobago rank for chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield?
- Trinidad and Tobago ranks 122nd out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is chillies and peppers, green (capsicum spp. and pimenta spp.) — yield rising or falling in Trinidad and Tobago?
- Over the last ten years it is down 45.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Trinidad and Tobago 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.