Dates — Yield in South America
South America: Dates — Yield was 3,020 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Dates — Yield in South America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
South America recorded 3,020 kg/ha for dates — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 13.6% on the previous year and up 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, dates — yield in South America peaked at 5,454 kg/ha in 1961 and was at its lowest, 1,085 kg/ha, in 1987.
South America ranks 17th of 20 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Dates — Yield in South America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,454 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,454 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 5,385 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1964 | 5,385 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 5,333 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1966 | 5,387 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1967 | 5,353 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1968 | 3,821 kg/ha | -28.6% |
| 1969 | 4,480 kg/ha | +17.2% |
| 1970 | 4,400 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1971 | 4,402 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 3,000 kg/ha | -31.9% |
| 1973 | 2,900 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1974 | 2,700 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1975 | 3,000 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1976 | 3,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 3,500 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1978 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 3,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 3,504 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1983 | 1,369 kg/ha | -60.9% |
| 1984 | 3,504 kg/ha | +156.0% |
| 1985 | 2,500 kg/ha | -28.6% |
| 1986 | 2,878 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 1987 | 1,085 kg/ha | -62.3% |
| 1988 | 1,630 kg/ha | +50.2% |
| 1989 | 1,200 kg/ha | -26.4% |
| 1990 | 1,756 kg/ha | +46.3% |
| 1991 | 1,185 kg/ha | -32.5% |
| 1992 | 1,600 kg/ha | +35.0% |
| 1993 | 1,163 kg/ha | -27.3% |
| 1994 | 1,433 kg/ha | +23.2% |
| 1995 | 1,671 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 1996 | 1,812 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1997 | 2,024 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1998 | 1,753 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1999 | 4,435 kg/ha | +152.9% |
| 2000 | 2,788 kg/ha | -37.1% |
| 2001 | 2,854 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2002 | 2,889 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 2,956 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2004 | 3,054 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2005 | 3,304 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 2006 | 3,177 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2007 | 2,390 kg/ha | -24.8% |
| 2008 | 5,439 kg/ha | +127.6% |
| 2009 | 4,500 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 2010 | 3,430 kg/ha | -23.8% |
| 2011 | 3,822 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 2012 | 1,647 kg/ha | -56.9% |
| 2013 | 2,224 kg/ha | +35.0% |
| 2014 | 2,916 kg/ha | +31.1% |
| 2015 | 2,767 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2016 | 2,639 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2017 | 3,033 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 2018 | 1,972 kg/ha | -35.0% |
| 2019 | 2,641 kg/ha | +33.9% |
| 2020 | 3,106 kg/ha | +17.6% |
| 2021 | 3,082 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2022 | 3,270 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2023 | 3,494 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2024 | 3,020 kg/ha | -13.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Dates — Yield in South America 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | +156.0% | 1,369 kg/ha | 3,504 kg/ha |
| 1999 | +152.9% | 1,753 kg/ha | 4,435 kg/ha |
| 2008 | +127.6% | 2,390 kg/ha | 5,439 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,117 kg/ha | 3,821 kg/ha | 5,454 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,390 kg/ha | 2,700 kg/ha | 4,402 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,467 kg/ha | 1,085 kg/ha | 3,504 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,883 kg/ha | 1,163 kg/ha | 4,435 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,335 kg/ha | 2,390 kg/ha | 5,439 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,709 kg/ha | 1,647 kg/ha | 3,822 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,194 kg/ha | 3,020 kg/ha | 3,494 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is dates — yield in South America?
- Dates — yield in South America was 3,020 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest dates — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 5,454 kg/ha in 1961.
- What is the lowest dates — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,085 kg/ha in 1987.
- How does South America rank for dates — yield?
- South America ranks 17th out of 20 groups with data for 2024.
- Is dates — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this South America data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Dates — 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.