Cocoa beans — Yield in Americas
Americas: Cocoa beans — Yield was 581.2 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cocoa beans — yield in Americas is 581.2 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.7% on the previous year and up 35.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Americas peaked at 581.2 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 268.8 kg/ha, in 2000.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Americas, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 315.5 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 307.8 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1963 | 312.4 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1964 | 320.6 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1965 | 302.3 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1966 | 347.8 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 1967 | 365.8 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1968 | 355.5 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1969 | 367.4 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1970 | 358.1 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1971 | 395.4 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 1972 | 414.7 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1973 | 386 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1974 | 419.4 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1975 | 471.6 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 1976 | 424.9 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 1977 | 441.6 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1978 | 460.4 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1979 | 506.3 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1980 | 487.5 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1981 | 481.1 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1982 | 490 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1983 | 452.6 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1984 | 445.9 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1985 | 542 kg/ha | +21.6% |
| 1986 | 509.8 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1987 | 393.5 kg/ha | -22.8% |
| 1988 | 451.3 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 1989 | 469.7 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1990 | 372.6 kg/ha | -20.7% |
| 1991 | 422.6 kg/ha | +13.4% |
| 1992 | 405.9 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1993 | 415.9 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1994 | 412.6 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1995 | 375.4 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1996 | 371.1 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1997 | 370.5 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1998 | 354.3 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1999 | 333.2 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2000 | 268.8 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 2001 | 295.3 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2002 | 305.3 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2003 | 333 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 2004 | 342.7 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2005 | 331.7 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2006 | 340.7 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2007 | 335.9 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2008 | 344.3 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2009 | 378.5 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2010 | 396.3 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2011 | 408.1 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2012 | 402.7 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 397.1 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2014 | 430 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2015 | 441.6 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 403.3 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 2017 | 496.9 kg/ha | +23.2% |
| 2018 | 517.7 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2019 | 544.2 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2020 | 531.2 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2021 | 530.8 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 552.6 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2023 | 576.9 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2024 | 581.2 kg/ha | +0.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 332.79 kg/ha | 302.3 kg/ha | 367.4 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 427.84 kg/ha | 358.1 kg/ha | 506.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 472.34 kg/ha | 393.5 kg/ha | 542 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 383.41 kg/ha | 333.2 kg/ha | 422.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 327.62 kg/ha | 268.8 kg/ha | 378.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 443.79 kg/ha | 396.3 kg/ha | 544.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 554.54 kg/ha | 530.8 kg/ha | 581.2 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 1 Thailand 2,856 kg/ha compare
- 1 United Republic of Tanzania 717.5 kg/ha compare
- 2 Democratic Republic of the Congo 590.5 kg/ha compare
- 2 Guatemala 2,582 kg/ha compare
- 3 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 560.3 kg/ha compare
- 3 Fiji 2,500 kg/ha compare
- 4 Togo 986.8 kg/ha compare
- 4 Viet Nam 480.5 kg/ha compare
- 5 Madagascar 894.4 kg/ha compare
- 6 Peru 829.4 kg/ha compare
- 6 Caribbean 496.8 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.8368 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.91 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.12 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.7578 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.7575 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.67 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Americas?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Americas was 581.2 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 581.2 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 268.8 kg/ha in 2000.
- How does Americas rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Americas ranks 3rd out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 35.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cocoa beans — Yield. 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.