Cocoa beans — Yield in South America
South America: Cocoa beans — Yield was 588.2 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in South America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
South America recorded 588.2 kg/ha for cocoa beans — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.3% on the previous year and up 39.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in South America peaked at 588.2 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 265.5 kg/ha, in 2000.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in South America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 291.1 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 278.3 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1963 | 281.9 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1964 | 303.1 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1965 | 299.3 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1966 | 351.6 kg/ha | +17.5% |
| 1967 | 376.6 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1968 | 357.3 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1969 | 380.9 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1970 | 366.1 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1971 | 418.9 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 1972 | 427.6 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1973 | 399.1 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1974 | 438.3 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1975 | 499.4 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 1976 | 447.5 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 1977 | 470.2 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1978 | 469.7 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1979 | 540.1 kg/ha | +15.0% |
| 1980 | 520.6 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1981 | 515.4 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1982 | 526.6 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1983 | 474.9 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 1984 | 460.1 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1985 | 568 kg/ha | +23.5% |
| 1986 | 536.4 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1987 | 406.8 kg/ha | -24.2% |
| 1988 | 455.3 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 1989 | 470.1 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1990 | 365.1 kg/ha | -22.3% |
| 1991 | 420.3 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 1992 | 400.2 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1993 | 403.1 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1994 | 403.5 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1995 | 367.5 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1996 | 362.5 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1997 | 364.1 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1998 | 340.2 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1999 | 333.2 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2000 | 265.5 kg/ha | -20.3% |
| 2001 | 266.7 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2002 | 275.9 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2003 | 303.7 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2004 | 320.6 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2005 | 328.9 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2006 | 326.8 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2007 | 320.1 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2008 | 325.9 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2009 | 357.1 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2010 | 381.5 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2011 | 401.6 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2012 | 381.4 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2013 | 379.6 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2014 | 422.2 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 2015 | 432.2 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2016 | 385.2 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 2017 | 490.2 kg/ha | +27.3% |
| 2018 | 515.8 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2019 | 553.2 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2020 | 542.8 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2021 | 539.6 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2022 | 575 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2023 | 580.9 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2024 | 588.2 kg/ha | +1.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 324.46 kg/ha | 278.3 kg/ha | 380.9 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 447.69 kg/ha | 366.1 kg/ha | 540.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 493.42 kg/ha | 406.8 kg/ha | 568 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 375.97 kg/ha | 333.2 kg/ha | 420.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 309.12 kg/ha | 265.5 kg/ha | 357.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 434.29 kg/ha | 379.6 kg/ha | 553.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 565.3 kg/ha | 539.6 kg/ha | 588.2 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South America
- 1 Thailand 2,856 kg/ha compare
- 1 United Republic of Tanzania 717.5 kg/ha compare
- 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
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in South America?
- Cocoa beans — yield in South America was 588.2 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 588.2 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 265.5 kg/ha in 2000.
- How does South America rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- South America ranks 2nd out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 39.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South America 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.