Cocoa beans — Yield in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Cocoa beans — Yield was 680.9 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in Sri Lanka, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Sri Lanka recorded 680.9 kg/ha for cocoa beans — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 9.6% on the previous year and down 18.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in Sri Lanka peaked at 950.6 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 101.3 kg/ha, in 1972.
That places Sri Lanka 8th out of 53 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in Sri Lanka, 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 | 199.2 kg/ha | +19.8% |
| 1978 | 233.6 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 1979 | 259.1 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1980 | 283.7 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1981 | 315.8 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1982 | 352.1 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1983 | 294.5 kg/ha | -16.4% |
| 1984 | 311.7 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1985 | 314.1 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1986 | 299.3 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1987 | 290.1 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1988 | 411.4 kg/ha | +41.8% |
| 1989 | 450.9 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 1990 | 487.7 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1991 | 535.9 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1992 | 672.2 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 1993 | 612.6 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1994 | 587 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1995 | 626.2 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1996 | 628.3 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 634 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1998 | 652.7 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1999 | 659.6 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 681.4 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2001 | 677.9 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2002 | 602.1 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 2003 | 681.2 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 2004 | 677 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2005 | 655.1 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2006 | 644.6 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2007 | 612.8 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2008 | 639.4 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2009 | 638.7 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 633.7 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 639.2 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 660.1 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2013 | 712.4 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 2014 | 833.5 kg/ha | +17.0% |
| 2015 | 748 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 2016 | 769.2 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2017 | 747.4 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2018 | 950.6 kg/ha | +27.2% |
| 2019 | 749.9 kg/ha | -21.1% |
| 2020 | 801.8 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2021 | 738.8 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2022 | 682.5 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2023 | 753.5 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 2024 | 680.9 kg/ha | -9.6% |
Sri Lanka compared with similar countries
- Sri Lanka's 680.9 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 411.05 kg/ha, 1.7× the median. (26 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 240.96 kg/ha | 180.3 kg/ha | 305.8 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 198.07 kg/ha | 101.3 kg/ha | 259.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 332.36 kg/ha | 283.7 kg/ha | 450.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 609.62 kg/ha | 487.7 kg/ha | 672.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 651.02 kg/ha | 602.1 kg/ha | 681.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 744.4 kg/ha | 633.7 kg/ha | 950.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 731.5 kg/ha | 680.9 kg/ha | 801.8 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
- 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 Melanesia 399.8 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
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 9.1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0836 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.9172 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7955 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 8.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in Sri Lanka?
- Cocoa beans — yield in Sri Lanka was 680.9 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 950.6 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 101.3 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- Sri Lanka ranks 8th out of 53 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.