Cocoa beans — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Cocoa beans — Yield was 616.3 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 616.3 kg/ha for cocoa beans — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.6% on the previous year and up 15.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 626.5 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 171.6 kg/ha, in 1963.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 292.4 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 221.1 kg/ha | -24.4% |
| 1963 | 171.6 kg/ha | -22.4% |
| 1964 | 187.9 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1965 | 189.6 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1966 | 203.7 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1967 | 230.4 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 1968 | 251.5 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1969 | 264.3 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1970 | 285.8 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1971 | 269.8 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1972 | 334.9 kg/ha | +24.1% |
| 1973 | 333.2 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1974 | 358.2 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1975 | 334.9 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1976 | 355.7 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1977 | 312.3 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 1978 | 340.9 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1979 | 312.5 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1980 | 296.1 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1981 | 305.8 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1982 | 320.2 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1983 | 333.7 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1984 | 459.1 kg/ha | +37.6% |
| 1985 | 310.8 kg/ha | -32.3% |
| 1986 | 329.8 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1987 | 420.7 kg/ha | +27.6% |
| 1988 | 439.4 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1989 | 389.6 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1990 | 331.4 kg/ha | -14.9% |
| 1991 | 323.2 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1992 | 382.4 kg/ha | +18.3% |
| 1993 | 431.5 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 1994 | 323.5 kg/ha | -25.0% |
| 1995 | 436.8 kg/ha | +35.0% |
| 1996 | 440.6 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 462.8 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1998 | 462 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1999 | 498.7 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 2000 | 487.8 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2001 | 480.6 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2002 | 484 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2003 | 500.5 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2004 | 519 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2005 | 549.2 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2006 | 513.5 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2007 | 491 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2008 | 485.1 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2009 | 489.2 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 512.3 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2011 | 483.5 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2012 | 511.5 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2013 | 494.4 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2014 | 535.7 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2015 | 583.9 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 2016 | 571.8 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2017 | 563.5 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2018 | 574.6 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2019 | 556.5 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2020 | 588.5 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2021 | 582.3 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2022 | 582.5 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 626.5 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2024 | 616.3 kg/ha | -1.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 223.61 kg/ha | 171.6 kg/ha | 292.4 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 323.82 kg/ha | 269.8 kg/ha | 358.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 360.52 kg/ha | 296.1 kg/ha | 459.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 409.29 kg/ha | 323.2 kg/ha | 498.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 499.99 kg/ha | 480.6 kg/ha | 549.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 538.77 kg/ha | 483.5 kg/ha | 583.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 599.22 kg/ha | 582.3 kg/ha | 626.5 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 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
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Eastern Africa was 616.3 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 626.5 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 171.6 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 1st out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa 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.