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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Eastern Africa 616.3 kg/ha
- South America 588.2 kg/ha
- Americas 581.2 kg/ha
- Central America 574 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 524.5 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 496 kg/ha
- World 475.3 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 466 kg/ha
- Africa 458 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 457.3 kg/ha
- Western Africa 453.3 kg/ha
- South-eastern Asia 451.3 kg/ha
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.