Cocoa beans — Yield by country

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...

Countries reporting
64
Highest
2,856 kg/ha
Thailand
Lowest
28.7 kg/ha
Suriname
Median
399.9 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,942

What the numbers show

Cocoa beans — Yield is currently reported for 64 countries. The highest value is 2,856 kg/ha in Thailand; the lowest is 28.7 kg/ha in Suriname.

The median across all reporting countries is 399.9 kg/ha, and the mean is 495.47 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 100.

Over the past decade 34 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Fiji (up 2,400.0%), and the largest decrease in Saint Lucia (down 85.1%).

Cocoa beans — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Thailand 2,856 kg/ha 2024 down 16.7% volatile
2 Guatemala 2,582 kg/ha 2024 down 1.8% volatile
3 Fiji 2,500 kg/ha 2024 up 2,400.0% volatile
4 Togo 986.8 kg/ha 2024 up 11.8% rising
5 Madagascar 894.4 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
6 Peru 829.4 kg/ha 2024 up 8.3% rising
7 Ecuador 745.4 kg/ha 2024 up 77.8% rising
8 United Republic of Tanzania 717.5 kg/ha 2024 up 1.1% rising
9 Sri Lanka 680.9 kg/ha 2024 down 18.3% rising
10 Grenada 591.1 kg/ha 2024 down 15.3% rising
11 Democratic Republic of the Congo 590.5 kg/ha 2024 up 61.2% rising
12 Ghana 576.2 kg/ha 2024 up 13.0% rising
13 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 560.3 kg/ha 2024 down 4.3% rising
14 Nicaragua 557 kg/ha 2023 up 4.4% volatile
15 Dominican Republic 553.7 kg/ha 2024 up 19.5% rising
16 Mexico 544.2 kg/ha 2024 up 20.3% rising
17 Uganda 533 kg/ha 2024 up 24.8% volatile
18 Vanuatu 515.7 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% rising
19 Martinique 500 kg/ha 1969 unchanged falling
20 Cameroon 498.3 kg/ha 2024 up 32.2% rising
21 Caribbean 496.8 kg/ha 2024 up 10.7% rising
22 Côte d'Ivoire 495.5 kg/ha 2024 down 6.7% rising
23 Haiti 488.5 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% falling
24 Brazil 482.1 kg/ha 2024 up 24.0% falling
25 Viet Nam 480.5 kg/ha 2024 down 0.7% flat
26 Guinea 475.9 kg/ha 2024 up 26.9% rising
27 Sierra Leone 471.8 kg/ha 2024 up 21.5% falling
28 Indonesia 456.2 kg/ha 2024 up 8.2% rising
29 El Salvador 422.7 kg/ha 2024 down 20.1% falling
30 Belize 422.1 kg/ha 2024 up 298.6% volatile
31 Guyana 415.1 kg/ha 2024 up 2.0% volatile
32 Tonga 400 kg/ha 1989 unchanged flat
33 Melanesia 399.8 kg/ha 2024 down 2.6% falling
34 Papua New Guinea 396.2 kg/ha 2024 down 3.1% falling
35 Solomon Islands 390.5 kg/ha 2024 down 2.9% falling
36 Micronesia 380.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.4% falling
36 Micronesia (Federated States of) 380.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.4% falling
38 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 379.7 kg/ha 2024 up 9.9% rising
39 Cuba 371.7 kg/ha 2024 down 29.4% rising
40 Colombia 342.3 kg/ha 2024 down 4.4% flat
41 Comoros 336.9 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% falling
42 Philippines 328 kg/ha 2024 down 27.3% falling
43 Saint Lucia 305.7 kg/ha 2024 down 85.1% volatile
44 Honduras 291.3 kg/ha 2024 down 8.5% falling
45 Congo 279.8 kg/ha 2024 up 0.8% falling
46 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 279.6 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
47 Jamaica 278.3 kg/ha 2024 down 8.4% falling
48 India 273.7 kg/ha 2024 up 29.5% falling
49 Nigeria 269.1 kg/ha 2024 down 6.6% flat
50 Samoa 183.4 kg/ha 2024 down 3.0% falling
50 Polynesia 183.4 kg/ha 2024 down 3.0% falling
52 Liberia 164.4 kg/ha 2024 up 15.9% falling
53 Angola 160.7 kg/ha 2024 up 4.8% falling
54 Costa Rica 128.5 kg/ha 2024 down 12.8% falling
55 Guadeloupe 120 kg/ha 1992 down 4.0% falling
56 Trinidad and Tobago 119.7 kg/ha 2024 up 9.5% falling
57 Timor-Leste 102.5 kg/ha 2024 up 9.3% falling
58 Panama 102.2 kg/ha 2024 down 13.9% falling
59 Equatorial Guinea 101.9 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% volatile
60 Dominica 93.4 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% volatile
61 Sao Tome and Principe 91.2 kg/ha 2024 down 13.9% falling
62 Malaysia 71.7 kg/ha 2024 down 56.7% volatile
63 Gabon 55.1 kg/ha 2024 down 10.4% volatile
64 Suriname 28.7 kg/ha 2024 up 2.5% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Cocoa beans — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
82 places, 4,942 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.