Cocoa beans — Yield in Central America
Central America: Cocoa beans — Yield was 574 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Central America recorded 574 kg/ha for cocoa beans — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 0.6% on the previous year and up 12.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Central America peaked at 664.9 kg/ha in 2007 and was at its lowest, 283.4 kg/ha, in 1965.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 375.5 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 414.2 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1963 | 398.9 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1964 | 302.3 kg/ha | -24.2% |
| 1965 | 283.4 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1966 | 317.6 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 1967 | 318.4 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1968 | 338.3 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1969 | 303.4 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1970 | 306.4 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1971 | 302 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1972 | 427.1 kg/ha | +41.4% |
| 1973 | 370.7 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 1974 | 383.8 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1975 | 420.4 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1976 | 390.5 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1977 | 386.9 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1978 | 530.6 kg/ha | +37.1% |
| 1979 | 484 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1980 | 474.4 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1981 | 414.8 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 1982 | 547.4 kg/ha | +32.0% |
| 1983 | 507.6 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1984 | 485.3 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1985 | 637.6 kg/ha | +31.4% |
| 1986 | 568.4 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1987 | 546 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1988 | 638.1 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1989 | 605.9 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1990 | 499.6 kg/ha | -17.5% |
| 1991 | 534.3 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1992 | 495.2 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1993 | 592.2 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 1994 | 477.2 kg/ha | -19.4% |
| 1995 | 479.9 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 398.5 kg/ha | -17.0% |
| 1997 | 490.3 kg/ha | +23.0% |
| 1998 | 488 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1999 | 447.9 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2000 | 339.8 kg/ha | -24.1% |
| 2001 | 565.3 kg/ha | +66.4% |
| 2002 | 583.8 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2003 | 639.8 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2004 | 578.7 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 2005 | 634.2 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2006 | 638.2 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2007 | 664.9 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2008 | 641.1 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2009 | 635.3 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2010 | 595.6 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2011 | 580.9 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2012 | 583.8 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 585.8 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 512.3 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2015 | 534.3 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2016 | 528 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2017 | 547.8 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2018 | 554.9 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2019 | 542.2 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2020 | 549.1 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2021 | 570.5 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2022 | 581.1 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2023 | 577.7 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2024 | 574 kg/ha | -0.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Yield in Central America changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | +66.4% | 339.8 kg/ha | 565.3 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 339.11 kg/ha | 283.4 kg/ha | 414.2 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 400.24 kg/ha | 302 kg/ha | 530.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 542.55 kg/ha | 414.8 kg/ha | 638.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 490.31 kg/ha | 398.5 kg/ha | 592.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 592.11 kg/ha | 339.8 kg/ha | 664.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 556.56 kg/ha | 512.3 kg/ha | 595.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 570.48 kg/ha | 549.1 kg/ha | 581.1 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
- 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
- 7 Ecuador 745.4 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.22 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -1.15 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -3.58 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -10.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -1.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.7054 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4048 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -9.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.8347 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Central America?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Central America was 574 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 664.9 kg/ha in 2007.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 283.4 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Central America rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Central America ranks 4th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America 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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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.