Cocoa beans — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Cocoa beans — Yield was 466 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cocoa beans — yield in Middle Africa is 466 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.8% on the previous year and up 30.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 494 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 191.5 kg/ha, in 1976.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 227 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 239.4 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1963 | 255.9 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1964 | 277.3 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1965 | 246.2 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 1966 | 261.5 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1967 | 271.9 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1968 | 293.4 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1969 | 286.9 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1970 | 339.3 kg/ha | +18.3% |
| 1971 | 323.9 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1972 | 336.2 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1973 | 330.3 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1974 | 317.1 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1975 | 253.1 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 1976 | 191.5 kg/ha | -24.3% |
| 1977 | 224.7 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 1978 | 232.7 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1979 | 258.3 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1980 | 239.3 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 1981 | 249.3 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1982 | 226.8 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1983 | 223.9 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1984 | 245.6 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1985 | 237.4 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1986 | 257.3 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1987 | 262.7 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1988 | 268.6 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1989 | 258.3 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1990 | 268.1 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1991 | 261.4 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1992 | 247.5 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1993 | 272.9 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1994 | 267.8 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1995 | 329.1 kg/ha | +22.9% |
| 1996 | 301.4 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 1997 | 299.8 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1998 | 300 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1999 | 279.9 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2000 | 292.8 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2001 | 298.3 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2002 | 312.4 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2003 | 314.6 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2004 | 314.9 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 321.4 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2006 | 348.8 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2007 | 359.5 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2008 | 366.8 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2009 | 373.1 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2010 | 375.7 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2011 | 340.1 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 2012 | 383.6 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 2013 | 389.1 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 358 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2015 | 386.4 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 2016 | 393.4 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2017 | 399.1 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2018 | 451.9 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 2019 | 422.5 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2020 | 494 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 2021 | 458.8 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2022 | 451.3 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2023 | 462.4 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2024 | 466 kg/ha | +0.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 262.17 kg/ha | 227 kg/ha | 293.4 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 280.71 kg/ha | 191.5 kg/ha | 339.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 246.92 kg/ha | 223.9 kg/ha | 268.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 282.79 kg/ha | 247.5 kg/ha | 329.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 330.26 kg/ha | 292.8 kg/ha | 373.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 389.98 kg/ha | 340.1 kg/ha | 451.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 466.5 kg/ha | 451.3 kg/ha | 494 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
- 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
- 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
- 8 Melanesia 399.8 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Middle Africa?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Middle Africa was 466 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 494 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 191.5 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Middle Africa rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Middle Africa ranks 5th out of 14 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 30.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle 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.