Cocoa beans — Yield in India
India: Cocoa beans — Yield was 273.7 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Cocoa beans — Yield in India, 1977–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cocoa beans — yield in India is 273.7 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.5% on the previous year and up 29.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in India peaked at 800 kg/ha in 1979 and was at its lowest, 197 kg/ha, in 2013.
India ranks 38th of 53 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 48 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in India, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 789.5 kg/ha | — |
| 1978 | 793.7 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1979 | 800 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1980 | 300 kg/ha | -62.5% |
| 1981 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 350 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1988 | 300 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1989 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 567.4 kg/ha | +89.1% |
| 1995 | 538.1 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1996 | 533.3 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1997 | 459.7 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 1998 | 438.7 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1999 | 419.1 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2000 | 393 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2001 | 415.5 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2002 | 420.3 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 383.5 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 2004 | 366.9 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2005 | 332.6 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2006 | 345.3 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2007 | 335.5 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2008 | 331.2 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2009 | 347.1 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2010 | 278.6 kg/ha | -19.7% |
| 2011 | 254.9 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 2012 | 206.3 kg/ha | -19.1% |
| 2013 | 197 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2014 | 211.3 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2015 | 205.1 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2016 | 209.9 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2017 | 228.9 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 2018 | 224.7 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2019 | 255.3 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 2020 | 265.3 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2021 | 262.1 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2022 | 264.2 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 275.2 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2024 | 273.7 kg/ha | -0.5% |
India compared with similar countries
- India's 273.7 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 393.35 kg/ha, 70% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Yield in India 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | +89.1% | 300 kg/ha | 567.4 kg/ha |
| 1980 | -62.5% | 800 kg/ha | 300 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 794.4 kg/ha | 789.5 kg/ha | 800 kg/ha | 3 |
| 1980s | 305 kg/ha | 300 kg/ha | 350 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 415.63 kg/ha | 300 kg/ha | 567.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 367.09 kg/ha | 331.2 kg/ha | 420.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 227.2 kg/ha | 197 kg/ha | 278.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 268.1 kg/ha | 262.1 kg/ha | 275.2 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near India
More agriculture & rural data for India
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.83 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1623 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 438.73 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4067 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6431 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in India?
- Cocoa beans — yield in India was 273.7 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 800 kg/ha in 1979.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 197 kg/ha in 2013.
- How does India rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- India ranks 38th out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 29.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this India 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.