Cocoa beans — Yield in Southern Asia
Southern Asia: Cocoa beans — Yield was 279.8 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in Southern Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, cocoa beans — yield in Southern Asia stood at 279.8 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.1% on the previous year and up 21.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Southern Asia peaked at 574.1 kg/ha in 1994 and was at its lowest, 101.3 kg/ha, in 1972.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Southern Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 241.8 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 265.6 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1963 | 305.8 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 1964 | 271.2 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1965 | 204 kg/ha | -24.8% |
| 1966 | 219.2 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1967 | 245.1 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 1968 | 235.6 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1969 | 180.3 kg/ha | -23.5% |
| 1970 | 204.3 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 1971 | 223.7 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1972 | 101.3 kg/ha | -54.7% |
| 1973 | 134.6 kg/ha | +32.9% |
| 1974 | 222.8 kg/ha | +65.5% |
| 1975 | 235.8 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1976 | 166.3 kg/ha | -29.5% |
| 1977 | 224.4 kg/ha | +34.9% |
| 1978 | 272 kg/ha | +21.2% |
| 1979 | 321.1 kg/ha | +18.1% |
| 1980 | 295.2 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1981 | 304.7 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1982 | 315.6 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1983 | 298.4 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1984 | 303.4 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1985 | 304 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1986 | 299.8 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1987 | 331.9 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1988 | 333.9 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1989 | 345.5 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1990 | 356.3 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1991 | 371.3 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1992 | 411.3 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1993 | 367.9 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1994 | 574.1 kg/ha | +56.0% |
| 1995 | 568.8 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1996 | 564.6 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1997 | 515.5 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1998 | 508 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1999 | 494.3 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2000 | 465.5 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2001 | 479.1 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2002 | 462.3 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2003 | 419.2 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2004 | 399 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2005 | 362.8 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 2006 | 368 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2007 | 355.4 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2008 | 355.2 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 368.9 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2010 | 298.4 kg/ha | -19.1% |
| 2011 | 271.5 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 2012 | 223.9 kg/ha | -17.5% |
| 2013 | 214 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2014 | 229.8 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2015 | 220.2 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2016 | 224.9 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2017 | 241 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2018 | 242.4 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 265.6 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2020 | 275.1 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2021 | 270.4 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2022 | 271.1 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 282.8 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2024 | 279.8 kg/ha | -1.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cocoa beans — Yield in Southern Asia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | +65.5% | 134.6 kg/ha | 222.8 kg/ha |
| 1972 | -54.7% | 223.7 kg/ha | 101.3 kg/ha |
| 1994 | +56.0% | 367.9 kg/ha | 574.1 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 240.96 kg/ha | 180.3 kg/ha | 305.8 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 210.63 kg/ha | 101.3 kg/ha | 321.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 313.24 kg/ha | 295.2 kg/ha | 345.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 473.21 kg/ha | 356.3 kg/ha | 574.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 403.54 kg/ha | 355.2 kg/ha | 479.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 243.17 kg/ha | 214 kg/ha | 298.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 275.84 kg/ha | 270.4 kg/ha | 282.8 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Asia
- 12 Dominican Republic 553.7 kg/ha compare
- 12 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 379.7 kg/ha compare
- 13 Mexico 544.2 kg/ha compare
- 13 Polynesia 183.4 kg/ha compare
- 14 Timor-Leste 102.5 kg/ha compare
- 14 Uganda 533 kg/ha compare
- 15 Vanuatu 515.7 kg/ha compare
- 16 Martinique 500 kg/ha compare
- 17 Cameroon 498.3 kg/ha compare
- 18 Haiti 488.5 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Southern Asia?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Southern Asia was 279.8 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Southern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 574.1 kg/ha in 1994.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Southern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 101.3 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Southern Asia rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Southern Asia ranks 15th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Southern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern Asia 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.