Cocoa beans — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Cocoa beans — Yield was 399.8 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Cocoa beans — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, cocoa beans — yield in Melanesia stood at 399.8 kg/ha.
The figure is down 0.2% on the previous year and down 2.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Melanesia peaked at 522.2 kg/ha in 1971 and was at its lowest, 325.7 kg/ha, in 1998.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 345.6 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 458.7 kg/ha | +32.7% |
| 1963 | 483.5 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1964 | 336 kg/ha | -30.5% |
| 1965 | 510.3 kg/ha | +51.9% |
| 1966 | 517.9 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1967 | 476.3 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1968 | 457.7 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1969 | 480.5 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1970 | 477 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1971 | 522.2 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1972 | 489.4 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1973 | 376 kg/ha | -23.2% |
| 1974 | 469.8 kg/ha | +24.9% |
| 1975 | 464.7 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1976 | 420.9 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 1977 | 355.7 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 1978 | 361.4 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1979 | 362.2 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1980 | 397.6 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1981 | 395.3 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1982 | 331.2 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 1983 | 358.3 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1984 | 431.7 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 1985 | 441.1 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1986 | 377.7 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1987 | 360.8 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1988 | 391.4 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1989 | 490.8 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 1990 | 431.3 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1991 | 420.9 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1992 | 417 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1993 | 415.3 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1994 | 390.4 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1995 | 402.4 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1996 | 399.1 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1997 | 441.9 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1998 | 325.7 kg/ha | -26.3% |
| 1999 | 366.4 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2000 | 470.9 kg/ha | +28.5% |
| 2001 | 425.5 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 2002 | 423.2 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2003 | 433.7 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2004 | 403.5 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2005 | 433.6 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2006 | 424.8 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2007 | 411.2 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2008 | 396.2 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2009 | 413.8 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2010 | 417.8 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 412 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2012 | 407.1 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2013 | 407.5 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 410.6 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2015 | 331 kg/ha | -19.4% |
| 2016 | 412.5 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 2017 | 406.9 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2018 | 401.3 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2019 | 400 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 397.8 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2021 | 401.1 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 401.4 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 400.7 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2024 | 399.8 kg/ha | -0.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Yield in Melanesia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | +51.9% | 336 kg/ha | 510.3 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 451.83 kg/ha | 336 kg/ha | 517.9 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 429.93 kg/ha | 355.7 kg/ha | 522.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 397.59 kg/ha | 331.2 kg/ha | 490.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 401.04 kg/ha | 325.7 kg/ha | 441.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 423.64 kg/ha | 396.2 kg/ha | 470.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 400.67 kg/ha | 331 kg/ha | 417.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 400.16 kg/ha | 397.8 kg/ha | 401.4 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 5 Madagascar 894.4 kg/ha compare
- 6 Peru 829.4 kg/ha compare
- 6 Caribbean 496.8 kg/ha compare
- 7 Ecuador 745.4 kg/ha compare
- 8 Côte d'Ivoire 495.5 kg/ha compare
- 8 Sri Lanka 680.9 kg/ha compare
- 9 Grenada 591.1 kg/ha compare
- 10 Ghana 576.2 kg/ha compare
- 10 Micronesia (Federated States of) 380.8 kg/ha compare
- 10 Micronesia 380.8 kg/ha compare
- 11 Nicaragua 557 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Melanesia?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Melanesia was 399.8 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 522.2 kg/ha in 1971.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 325.7 kg/ha in 1998.
- How does Melanesia rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 8th out of 14 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.