Cocoa beans — Yield in Ecuador
Ecuador: Cocoa beans — Yield was 745.4 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, cocoa beans — yield in Ecuador stood at 745.4 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 2.5% on the previous year and up 77.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Ecuador peaked at 745.4 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 116.6 kg/ha, in 1998.
That places Ecuador 7th out of 64 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 247.36 kg/ha | 196.9 kg/ha | 389.2 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 302.97 kg/ha | 234.7 kg/ha | 410.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 287.38 kg/ha | 166.7 kg/ha | 456 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 258.84 kg/ha | 116.6 kg/ha | 314.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 233.01 kg/ha | 161.3 kg/ha | 302.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 411.24 kg/ha | 319.2 kg/ha | 539.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 662.46 kg/ha | 555.8 kg/ha | 745.4 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 6.70 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.64 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.59 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Ecuador?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Ecuador was 745.4 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 745.4 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 116.6 kg/ha in 1998.
- How does Ecuador rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Ecuador ranks 7th out of 64 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 77.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.