Cocoa beans — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Cocoa beans — Yield was 128.5 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Cocoa beans — Yield in Costa Rica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 128.5 kg/ha for cocoa beans — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.9% on the previous year and down 12.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 424.5 kg/ha in 1998 and was at its lowest, 114.3 kg/ha, in 2005.
Costa Rica ranks 43rd of 53 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 365.5 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 421.4 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 1963 | 356.7 kg/ha | -15.4% |
| 1964 | 340 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1965 | 253.3 kg/ha | -25.5% |
| 1966 | 310 kg/ha | +22.4% |
| 1967 | 240 kg/ha | -22.6% |
| 1968 | 280 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1969 | 153.8 kg/ha | -45.1% |
| 1970 | 140 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1971 | 243.3 kg/ha | +73.8% |
| 1972 | 277.8 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 1973 | 293.3 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1974 | 291.5 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1975 | 365.6 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 1976 | 336.7 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1977 | 384.7 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1978 | 346 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1979 | 345.5 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1980 | 329.1 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1981 | 315.6 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1982 | 295.4 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1983 | 237.5 kg/ha | -19.6% |
| 1984 | 390.5 kg/ha | +64.4% |
| 1985 | 359.9 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1986 | 302.3 kg/ha | -16.0% |
| 1987 | 248.5 kg/ha | -17.8% |
| 1988 | 189.3 kg/ha | -23.8% |
| 1989 | 242.6 kg/ha | +28.2% |
| 1990 | 200.9 kg/ha | -17.2% |
| 1991 | 226.7 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 1992 | 222.2 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1993 | 233.3 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1994 | 166.7 kg/ha | -28.5% |
| 1995 | 166.7 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 166.7 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 363.6 kg/ha | +118.1% |
| 1998 | 424.5 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1999 | 244.6 kg/ha | -42.4% |
| 2000 | 199.4 kg/ha | -18.5% |
| 2001 | 199.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 199.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 199.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 199.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 114.3 kg/ha | -42.7% |
| 2006 | 117.8 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2007 | 123.8 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2008 | 132.2 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2009 | 145 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 2010 | 146.4 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 149.8 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2012 | 150.2 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 150.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 147.4 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2015 | 133.6 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 2016 | 162.5 kg/ha | +21.6% |
| 2017 | 136.3 kg/ha | -16.1% |
| 2018 | 126.6 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2019 | 127 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 126.7 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 128.7 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2022 | 131 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2023 | 129.7 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2024 | 128.5 kg/ha | -0.9% |
Costa Rica compared with similar countries
- Costa Rica's 128.5 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 415.1 kg/ha, 31% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Yield in Costa Rica 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | +118.1% | 166.7 kg/ha | 363.6 kg/ha |
| 1971 | +73.8% | 140 kg/ha | 243.3 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 302.3 kg/ha | 153.8 kg/ha | 421.4 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 302.44 kg/ha | 140 kg/ha | 384.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 291.07 kg/ha | 189.3 kg/ha | 390.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 241.59 kg/ha | 166.7 kg/ha | 424.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 163.01 kg/ha | 114.3 kg/ha | 199.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 143 kg/ha | 126.6 kg/ha | 162.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 128.92 kg/ha | 126.7 kg/ha | 131 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Costa Rica
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0337 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 672.15 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.57 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2027 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Costa Rica?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Costa Rica was 128.5 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 424.5 kg/ha in 1998.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 114.3 kg/ha in 2005.
- How does Costa Rica rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 43rd out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Costa Rica 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.