Cocoa beans — Yield in Cameroon
Cameroon: Cocoa beans — Yield was 498.3 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in Cameroon, 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 Cameroon is 498.3 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.0% on the previous year and up 32.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Cameroon peaked at 535.8 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 197.6 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Cameroon 20th out of 64 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 233.04 kg/ha | 197.6 kg/ha | 289.3 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 308.33 kg/ha | 202 kg/ha | 391.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 283.05 kg/ha | 256.2 kg/ha | 308.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 321.82 kg/ha | 287.8 kg/ha | 372.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 358.37 kg/ha | 330.2 kg/ha | 392.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 409.67 kg/ha | 358.2 kg/ha | 481.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 501.52 kg/ha | 480.4 kg/ha | 535.8 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture share gdp 16.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 44.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 13.25 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 805,353 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Cameroon?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Cameroon was 498.3 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 535.8 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 197.6 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Cameroon rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Cameroon ranks 20th out of 64 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 32.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.