Cocoa beans — Production in Gabon
Gabon: Cocoa beans — Production was 100 t in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Cocoa beans — Production in Gabon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cocoa beans — production in Gabon is 100 t, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 50.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — production in Gabon peaked at 6,095 t in 1970 and was at its lowest, 100 t, in 2007.
Gabon ranks 47th of 54 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Cocoa beans — Production in Gabon, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,190 t | — |
| 1962 | 3,360 t | +5.3% |
| 1963 | 3,600 t | +7.1% |
| 1964 | 4,000 t | +11.1% |
| 1965 | 2,170 t | -45.8% |
| 1966 | 4,296 t | +98.0% |
| 1967 | 4,061 t | -5.5% |
| 1968 | 4,751 t | +17.0% |
| 1969 | 4,366 t | -8.1% |
| 1970 | 6,095 t | +39.6% |
| 1971 | 5,031 t | -17.5% |
| 1972 | 5,030 t | -0.0% |
| 1973 | 5,151 t | +2.4% |
| 1974 | 4,869 t | -5.5% |
| 1975 | 4,549 t | -6.6% |
| 1976 | 3,573 t | -21.5% |
| 1977 | 3,573 t | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 3,710 t | +3.8% |
| 1979 | 4,754 t | +28.1% |
| 1980 | 3,814 t | -19.8% |
| 1981 | 2,850 t | -25.3% |
| 1982 | 2,900 t | +1.8% |
| 1983 | 2,500 t | -13.8% |
| 1984 | 1,595 t | -36.2% |
| 1985 | 1,500 t | -6.0% |
| 1986 | 1,628 t | +8.5% |
| 1987 | 1,574 t | -3.3% |
| 1988 | 1,802 t | +14.5% |
| 1989 | 1,800 t | -0.1% |
| 1990 | 1,502 t | -16.6% |
| 1991 | 1,802 t | +20.0% |
| 1992 | 2,925 t | +62.3% |
| 1993 | 1,966 t | -32.8% |
| 1994 | 718 t | -63.5% |
| 1995 | 774 t | +7.8% |
| 1996 | 1,022 t | +32.0% |
| 1997 | 686 t | -32.9% |
| 1998 | 500 t | -27.1% |
| 1999 | 700 t | +40.0% |
| 2000 | 500 t | -28.6% |
| 2001 | 416.2 t | -16.8% |
| 2002 | 500 t | +20.1% |
| 2003 | 600 t | +20.0% |
| 2004 | 200 t | -66.7% |
| 2005 | 195 t | -2.5% |
| 2006 | 200 t | +2.6% |
| 2007 | 100 t | -50.0% |
| 2008 | 200 t | +100.0% |
| 2009 | 200 t | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 100 t | -50.0% |
| 2011 | 600 t | +500.0% |
| 2012 | 100 t | -83.3% |
| 2013 | 200 t | +100.0% |
| 2014 | 202.96 t | +1.5% |
| 2015 | 100 t | -50.7% |
| 2016 | 100 t | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 100 t | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 100 t | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 100 t | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 100 t | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 100 t | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 100 t | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 100 t | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 100 t | +0.0% |
Gabon compared with similar countries
- Gabon's 100 t is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 541.36 t, 18% of the median. (26 countries reporting)
- Gabon's 100 t is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 21,000 t, 0% of the median. (17 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Production in Gabon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | +500.0% | 100 t | 600 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,755 t | 2,170 t | 4,751 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,634 t | 3,573 t | 6,095 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,196 t | 1,500 t | 3,814 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,260 t | 500 t | 2,925 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 311.12 t | 100 t | 600 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 170.3 t | 100 t | 600 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 100 t | 100 t | 100 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Gabon
More agriculture & rural data for Gabon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0675 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 557.95 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6835 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.0791 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — production in Gabon?
- Cocoa beans — production in Gabon was 100 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — production recorded in Gabon?
- The highest recorded value was 6,095 t in 1970.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — production recorded in Gabon?
- The lowest recorded value was 100 t in 2007.
- How does Gabon rank for cocoa beans — production?
- Gabon ranks 47th out of 54 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — production rising or falling in Gabon?
- Over the last ten years it is down 50.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Gabon 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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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.