Cocoa beans — Yield in Panama
Panama: Cocoa beans — Yield was 102.2 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Cocoa beans — Yield in Panama, 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 Panama is 102.2 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.0% on the previous year and down 13.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Panama peaked at 333 kg/ha in 1983 and was at its lowest, 75.3 kg/ha, in 2001.
That places Panama 46th out of 53 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Panama, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 288.9 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 285.7 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1963 | 250 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 1964 | 236.8 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1965 | 194.4 kg/ha | -17.9% |
| 1966 | 142.9 kg/ha | -26.5% |
| 1967 | 147.1 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1968 | 151.5 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1969 | 181.8 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1970 | 201.2 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1971 | 165.6 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 1972 | 157.5 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1973 | 156.3 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1974 | 156.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 202.5 kg/ha | +29.6% |
| 1976 | 205.6 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1977 | 256 kg/ha | +24.5% |
| 1978 | 248.3 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1979 | 278.8 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1980 | 328 kg/ha | +17.6% |
| 1981 | 318.4 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1982 | 329.3 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1983 | 333 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1984 | 331.2 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1985 | 330 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1986 | 326.2 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1987 | 298.3 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1988 | 285 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1989 | 259.6 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1990 | 251.6 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1991 | 276.5 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1992 | 257.4 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1993 | 148.9 kg/ha | -42.2% |
| 1994 | 246.8 kg/ha | +65.7% |
| 1995 | 242.9 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1996 | 247.2 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1997 | 249.5 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1998 | 171.3 kg/ha | -31.3% |
| 1999 | 159.5 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2000 | 148.3 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2001 | 75.3 kg/ha | -49.2% |
| 2002 | 131.1 kg/ha | +74.1% |
| 2003 | 119.1 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 2004 | 119.7 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 125.9 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2006 | 136 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2007 | 135.8 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2008 | 136 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 133.6 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2010 | 121 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 2011 | 122.7 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 129.5 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2013 | 129 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 118.7 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2015 | 118 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2016 | 113 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2017 | 109.3 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2018 | 104.6 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2019 | 105.1 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 106.8 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2021 | 106.9 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 111.6 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2023 | 104.3 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2024 | 102.2 kg/ha | -2.0% |
Panama compared with similar countries
- Panama's 102.2 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 415.1 kg/ha, 25% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Yield in Panama 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | +74.1% | 75.3 kg/ha | 131.1 kg/ha |
| 1994 | +65.7% | 148.9 kg/ha | 246.8 kg/ha |
| 2001 | -49.2% | 148.3 kg/ha | 75.3 kg/ha |
| 1993 | -42.2% | 257.4 kg/ha | 148.9 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 208.79 kg/ha | 142.9 kg/ha | 288.9 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 202.81 kg/ha | 156.3 kg/ha | 278.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 313.9 kg/ha | 259.6 kg/ha | 333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 225.16 kg/ha | 148.9 kg/ha | 276.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 126.08 kg/ha | 75.3 kg/ha | 148.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 117.09 kg/ha | 104.6 kg/ha | 129.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 106.36 kg/ha | 102.2 kg/ha | 111.6 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Panama
- 43 Costa Rica 128.5 kg/ha compare
- 44 Guadeloupe 120 kg/ha compare
- 45 Trinidad and Tobago 119.7 kg/ha compare
- 47 Equatorial Guinea 101.9 kg/ha compare
- 48 Dominica 93.4 kg/ha compare
- 49 Sao Tome and Principe 91.2 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Panama
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.06 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0262 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 518.14 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.7724 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3385 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 4.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Panama?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Panama was 102.2 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Panama?
- The highest recorded value was 333 kg/ha in 1983.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Panama?
- The lowest recorded value was 75.3 kg/ha in 2001.
- How does Panama rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Panama ranks 46th out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Panama?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Panama 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.