Cocoa beans — Yield in World
World: Cocoa beans — Yield was 475.3 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cocoa beans — Yield in World, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, cocoa beans — yield in World stood at 475.3 kg/ha.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 6.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cocoa beans — yield in World peaked at 505 kg/ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 267.7 kg/ha, in 1965.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cocoa beans — Yield in World, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 269.4 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 271.6 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1963 | 283.5 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1964 | 339.9 kg/ha | +19.9% |
| 1965 | 267.7 kg/ha | -21.2% |
| 1966 | 329.8 kg/ha | +23.2% |
| 1967 | 329.4 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1968 | 305.6 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1969 | 333.1 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1970 | 354.1 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1971 | 370.5 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1972 | 351.4 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1973 | 324.8 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1974 | 353.8 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1975 | 358.1 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1976 | 317.1 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1977 | 327.4 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1978 | 326.4 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1979 | 358.3 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1980 | 352.4 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1981 | 357.9 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1982 | 345.3 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1983 | 344.4 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1984 | 379.7 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1985 | 399.1 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1986 | 403.7 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1987 | 389.7 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1988 | 453.3 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 1989 | 478.9 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1990 | 442.6 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1991 | 446 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1992 | 467.5 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1993 | 470.8 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1994 | 463.6 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1995 | 455.4 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1996 | 486.7 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1997 | 468.8 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1998 | 495 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1999 | 433.6 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 2000 | 438.5 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2001 | 450.7 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2002 | 470.2 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2003 | 481.6 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2004 | 478 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2005 | 464.5 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2006 | 505 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 2007 | 451.1 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 2008 | 446.2 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2009 | 446.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 451.3 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 444.2 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2012 | 447.4 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 440.8 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2014 | 448.3 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2015 | 439.6 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2016 | 433.1 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2017 | 455.3 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2018 | 482.5 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2019 | 486.3 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 486.5 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 483.2 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2022 | 479.8 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2023 | 476 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2024 | 475.3 kg/ha | -0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 303.33 kg/ha | 267.7 kg/ha | 339.9 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 344.19 kg/ha | 317.1 kg/ha | 370.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 390.44 kg/ha | 344.4 kg/ha | 478.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 463 kg/ha | 433.6 kg/ha | 495 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 463.2 kg/ha | 438.5 kg/ha | 505 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 452.88 kg/ha | 433.1 kg/ha | 486.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 480.16 kg/ha | 475.3 kg/ha | 486.5 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near World
- 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
- 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
- 12 Dominican Republic 553.7 kg/ha compare
- 12 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 379.7 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for World
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0401 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 577.68 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2984 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4217 units per person (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 42.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cocoa beans — yield in World?
- Cocoa beans — yield in World was 475.3 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cocoa beans — yield recorded in World?
- The highest recorded value was 505 kg/ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest cocoa beans — yield recorded in World?
- The lowest recorded value was 267.7 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does World rank for cocoa beans — yield?
- World ranks 9th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cocoa beans — yield rising or falling in World?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this World 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.