Cocoa beans — Yield in Jamaica
Jamaica: Cocoa beans — Yield was 278.3 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Cocoa beans — Yield in Jamaica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Jamaica recorded 278.3 kg/ha for cocoa beans — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 1.3% on the previous year and down 8.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Jamaica peaked at 708 kg/ha in 1987 and was at its lowest, 249.5 kg/ha, in 2011.
That places Jamaica 37th out of 53 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Jamaica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 400.3 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 380 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1963 | 380.3 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1964 | 329.3 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1965 | 401.1 kg/ha | +21.8% |
| 1966 | 426.3 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1967 | 400.5 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1968 | 484.2 kg/ha | +20.9% |
| 1969 | 482.3 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1970 | 408.1 kg/ha | -15.4% |
| 1971 | 468 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 1972 | 500.6 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1973 | 464.8 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1974 | 449.4 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1975 | 494.4 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1976 | 457.2 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1977 | 470 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1978 | 492.3 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1979 | 455.3 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1980 | 486.7 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1981 | 486.7 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 688 kg/ha | +41.4% |
| 1983 | 500.4 kg/ha | -27.3% |
| 1984 | 611.3 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1985 | 528.9 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 1986 | 534.7 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1987 | 708 kg/ha | +32.4% |
| 1988 | 344.2 kg/ha | -51.4% |
| 1989 | 308 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 1990 | 461.2 kg/ha | +49.7% |
| 1991 | 385.7 kg/ha | -16.4% |
| 1992 | 383.9 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1993 | 382 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1994 | 389.6 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1995 | 398.4 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1996 | 439.7 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 1997 | 446.8 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 395 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1999 | 370 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2000 | 297.3 kg/ha | -19.6% |
| 2001 | 410.7 kg/ha | +38.1% |
| 2002 | 385 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2003 | 368.6 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2004 | 356.1 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2005 | 305.6 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 2006 | 330.6 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 2007 | 547.1 kg/ha | +65.5% |
| 2008 | 298.5 kg/ha | -45.4% |
| 2009 | 316.6 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2010 | 360 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 2011 | 249.5 kg/ha | -30.7% |
| 2012 | 366.6 kg/ha | +46.9% |
| 2013 | 262.4 kg/ha | -28.4% |
| 2014 | 303.7 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 2015 | 302.9 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2016 | 299.7 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2017 | 301.5 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2018 | 294.9 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2019 | 288 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2020 | 288.4 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 287.5 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2022 | 285.4 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2023 | 281.9 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2024 | 278.3 kg/ha | -1.3% |
Jamaica compared with similar countries
- Jamaica's 278.3 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 411.05 kg/ha, 68% of the median. (26 countries reporting)
- Jamaica's 278.3 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 415.1 kg/ha, 67% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Yield in Jamaica 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | +65.5% | 330.6 kg/ha | 547.1 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 409.37 kg/ha | 329.3 kg/ha | 484.2 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 466.01 kg/ha | 408.1 kg/ha | 500.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 519.69 kg/ha | 308 kg/ha | 708 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 405.23 kg/ha | 370 kg/ha | 461.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 361.61 kg/ha | 297.3 kg/ha | 547.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 302.92 kg/ha | 249.5 kg/ha | 366.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 284.3 kg/ha | 278.3 kg/ha | 288.4 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Jamaica
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0874 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 699.7 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.28 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4057 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 8.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Jamaica?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Jamaica was 278.3 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 708 kg/ha in 1987.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 249.5 kg/ha in 2011.
- How does Jamaica rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Jamaica ranks 37th out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Jamaica 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.