Cocoa beans — Production in Colombia
Colombia: Cocoa beans — Production was 67,678 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Production in Colombia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Colombia recorded 67,678 t for cocoa beans — production in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 13.1% on the previous year and up 41.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — production in Colombia peaked at 102,154 t in 2019 and was at its lowest, 14,300 t, in 1961.
Colombia ranks 9th of 54 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Production in Colombia, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 14,300 t | — |
| 1962 | 15,000 t | +4.9% |
| 1963 | 15,700 t | +4.7% |
| 1964 | 16,400 t | +4.5% |
| 1965 | 17,100 t | +4.3% |
| 1966 | 17,800 t | +4.1% |
| 1967 | 17,000 t | -4.5% |
| 1968 | 18,000 t | +5.9% |
| 1969 | 18,500 t | +2.8% |
| 1970 | 19,000 t | +2.7% |
| 1971 | 21,000 t | +10.5% |
| 1972 | 22,000 t | +4.8% |
| 1973 | 23,000 t | +4.5% |
| 1974 | 24,500 t | +6.5% |
| 1975 | 26,000 t | +6.1% |
| 1976 | 29,200 t | +12.3% |
| 1977 | 27,000 t | -7.5% |
| 1978 | 31,000 t | +14.8% |
| 1979 | 32,300 t | +4.2% |
| 1980 | 35,700 t | +10.5% |
| 1981 | 38,300 t | +7.3% |
| 1982 | 39,400 t | +2.9% |
| 1983 | 37,000 t | -6.1% |
| 1984 | 40,700 t | +10.0% |
| 1985 | 42,500 t | +4.4% |
| 1986 | 46,700 t | +9.9% |
| 1987 | 53,680 t | +14.9% |
| 1988 | 54,080 t | +0.7% |
| 1989 | 55,430 t | +2.5% |
| 1990 | 56,153 t | +1.3% |
| 1991 | 58,141 t | +3.5% |
| 1992 | 54,857 t | -5.6% |
| 1993 | 57,472 t | +4.8% |
| 1994 | 50,624 t | -11.9% |
| 1995 | 56,652 t | +11.9% |
| 1996 | 49,635 t | -12.4% |
| 1997 | 50,317 t | +1.4% |
| 1998 | 50,685 t | +0.7% |
| 1999 | 51,485 t | +1.6% |
| 2000 | 36,731 t | -28.7% |
| 2001 | 36,070 t | -1.8% |
| 2002 | 34,002 t | -5.7% |
| 2003 | 41,704 t | +22.7% |
| 2004 | 38,753 t | -7.1% |
| 2005 | 37,099 t | -4.3% |
| 2006 | 35,258 t | -5.0% |
| 2007 | 39,904 t | +13.2% |
| 2008 | 44,740 t | +12.1% |
| 2009 | 44,740 t | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 39,534 t | -11.6% |
| 2011 | 37,202 t | -5.9% |
| 2012 | 41,670 t | +12.0% |
| 2013 | 46,739 t | +12.2% |
| 2014 | 47,732 t | +2.1% |
| 2015 | 54,798 t | +14.8% |
| 2016 | 56,785 t | +3.6% |
| 2017 | 89,282 t | +57.2% |
| 2018 | 97,978 t | +9.7% |
| 2019 | 102,154 t | +4.3% |
| 2020 | 63,416 t | -37.9% |
| 2021 | 69,040 t | +8.9% |
| 2022 | 62,158 t | -10.0% |
| 2023 | 59,831 t | -3.7% |
| 2024 | 67,678 t | +13.1% |
Colombia compared with similar countries
- Colombia's 67,678 t is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 541.36 t, 125.0× the median. (26 countries reporting)
- Colombia's 67,678 t is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 1,000 t, 67.7× the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Production in Colombia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | +57.2% | 56,785 t | 89,282 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16,644 t | 14,300 t | 18,500 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 25,500 t | 19,000 t | 32,300 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 44,349 t | 35,700 t | 55,430 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 53,602 t | 49,635 t | 58,141 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 38,900 t | 34,002 t | 44,740 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 61,387 t | 37,202 t | 102,154 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 64,425 t | 59,831 t | 69,040 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Colombia
- 6 Brazil 297,509 t compare
- 6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 50,000 t compare
- 7 Peru 157,252 t compare
- 7 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 29,383 t compare
- 8 Sierra Leone 93,750 t compare
- 8 United Republic of Tanzania 15,000 t compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 5,825 t compare
- 10 Dominican Republic 57,461 t compare
- 10 Viet Nam 1,500 t compare
- 11 Uganda 55,000 t compare
- 11 Caribbean 63,807 t compare
- 11 Polynesia 482.72 t compare
- 12 Papua New Guinea 45,000 t compare
- 12 Timor-Leste 177.11 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Colombia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.93 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0995 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 851.52 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.2113 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2122 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 9.9% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 9.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — production in Colombia?
- Cocoa beans — production in Colombia was 67,678 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — production recorded in Colombia?
- The highest recorded value was 102,154 t in 2019.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — production recorded in Colombia?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,300 t in 1961.
- How does Colombia rank for cocoa beans — production?
- Colombia ranks 9th out of 54 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — production rising or falling in Colombia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 41.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Colombia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cocoa beans — Production. 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.