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
65
Highest
2,856 kg/ha
Thailand
Lowest
28.7 kg/ha
Suriname
Median
399.8 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,942

What the numbers show

Cocoa beans — Yield is currently reported for 65 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 399.8 kg/ha, and the mean is 488.64 kg/ha.

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

Over the past decade 35 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
1 United Republic of Tanzania 717.5 kg/ha 2024 up 1.1% rising
2 Guatemala 2,582 kg/ha 2024 down 1.8% volatile
2 Democratic Republic of the Congo 590.5 kg/ha 2024 up 61.2% rising
3 Fiji 2,500 kg/ha 2024 up 2,400.0% volatile
3 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 560.3 kg/ha 2024 down 4.3% rising
4 Togo 986.8 kg/ha 2024 up 11.8% rising
4 Viet Nam 480.5 kg/ha 2024 down 0.7% flat
5 Madagascar 894.4 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
6 Peru 829.4 kg/ha 2024 up 8.3% rising
6 Caribbean 496.8 kg/ha 2024 up 10.7% rising
7 Ecuador 745.4 kg/ha 2024 up 77.8% rising
8 Sri Lanka 680.9 kg/ha 2024 down 18.3% rising
8 Côte d'Ivoire 495.5 kg/ha 2024 down 6.7% rising
8 Melanesia 399.8 kg/ha 2024 down 2.6% falling
9 Grenada 591.1 kg/ha 2024 down 15.3% rising
10 Ghana 576.2 kg/ha 2024 up 13.0% rising
10 Micronesia (Federated States of) 380.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.4% falling
10 Micronesia 380.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.4% falling
11 Nicaragua 557 kg/ha 2023 up 4.4% volatile
12 Dominican Republic 553.7 kg/ha 2024 up 19.5% rising
12 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 379.7 kg/ha 2024 up 9.9% rising
13 Mexico 544.2 kg/ha 2024 up 20.3% rising
13 Polynesia 183.4 kg/ha 2024 down 3.0% falling
14 Uganda 533 kg/ha 2024 up 24.8% volatile
14 Timor-Leste 102.5 kg/ha 2024 up 9.3% falling
15 Vanuatu 515.7 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% rising
16 Martinique 500 kg/ha 1969 unchanged falling
17 Cameroon 498.3 kg/ha 2024 up 32.2% rising
18 Haiti 488.5 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% falling
19 Brazil 482.1 kg/ha 2024 up 24.0% falling
20 Guinea 475.9 kg/ha 2024 up 26.9% rising
21 Sierra Leone 471.8 kg/ha 2024 up 21.5% falling
22 Indonesia 456.2 kg/ha 2024 up 8.2% rising
23 El Salvador 422.7 kg/ha 2024 down 20.1% falling
24 Belize 422.1 kg/ha 2024 up 298.6% volatile
25 Guyana 415.1 kg/ha 2024 up 2.0% volatile
26 Tonga 400 kg/ha 1989 unchanged flat
27 Papua New Guinea 396.2 kg/ha 2024 down 3.1% falling
28 Solomon Islands 390.5 kg/ha 2024 down 2.9% falling
29 Cuba 371.7 kg/ha 2024 down 29.4% rising
30 Colombia 342.3 kg/ha 2024 down 4.4% flat
31 Comoros 336.9 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% falling
32 Philippines 328 kg/ha 2024 down 27.3% falling
33 Saint Lucia 305.7 kg/ha 2024 down 85.1% volatile
34 Honduras 291.3 kg/ha 2024 down 8.5% falling
35 Congo 279.8 kg/ha 2024 up 0.8% falling
36 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 279.6 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
37 Jamaica 278.3 kg/ha 2024 down 8.4% falling
38 India 273.7 kg/ha 2024 up 29.5% falling
39 Nigeria 269.1 kg/ha 2024 down 6.6% flat
40 Samoa 183.4 kg/ha 2024 down 3.0% falling
41 Liberia 164.4 kg/ha 2024 up 15.9% falling
42 Angola 160.7 kg/ha 2024 up 4.8% falling
43 Costa Rica 128.5 kg/ha 2024 down 12.8% falling
44 Guadeloupe 120 kg/ha 1992 down 4.0% falling
45 Trinidad and Tobago 119.7 kg/ha 2024 up 9.5% falling
46 Panama 102.2 kg/ha 2024 down 13.9% falling
47 Equatorial Guinea 101.9 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% volatile
48 Dominica 93.4 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% volatile
49 Sao Tome and Principe 91.2 kg/ha 2024 down 13.9% falling
50 Malaysia 71.7 kg/ha 2024 down 56.7% volatile
51 Gabon 55.1 kg/ha 2024 down 10.4% volatile
52 Central African Republic 51.5 kg/ha 2024 up 1.8% rising
53 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.

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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
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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.