Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Europe
Europe: Locust beans (carobs) — Yield was 2,000 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Europe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, locust beans (carobs) — yield in Europe stood at 2,000 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and down 58.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, locust beans (carobs) — yield in Europe peaked at 4,756 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 1,593 kg/ha, in 1987.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Europe, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,127 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,811 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1963 | 2,592 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1964 | 3,500 kg/ha | +35.0% |
| 1965 | 3,396 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1966 | 2,563 kg/ha | -24.5% |
| 1967 | 2,462 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1968 | 3,018 kg/ha | +22.6% |
| 1969 | 2,860 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1970 | 2,518 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 1971 | 2,315 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1972 | 2,217 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1973 | 2,489 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1974 | 2,286 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1975 | 2,165 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1976 | 2,295 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1977 | 1,857 kg/ha | -19.1% |
| 1978 | 2,123 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1979 | 2,262 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1980 | 2,293 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1981 | 2,349 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1982 | 2,422 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1983 | 2,240 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1984 | 2,131 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1985 | 1,768 kg/ha | -17.0% |
| 1986 | 1,722 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1987 | 1,593 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1988 | 1,702 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1989 | 1,675 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1990 | 1,612 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1991 | 1,959 kg/ha | +21.5% |
| 1992 | 2,026 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1993 | 2,384 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 1994 | 2,526 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1995 | 2,477 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1996 | 2,543 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1997 | 2,597 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1998 | 2,553 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1999 | 2,723 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2000 | 2,770 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2001 | 2,661 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2002 | 2,894 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 2003 | 2,411 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 2004 | 2,292 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2005 | 3,391 kg/ha | +48.0% |
| 2006 | 2,135 kg/ha | -37.0% |
| 2007 | 2,780 kg/ha | +30.2% |
| 2008 | 3,429 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 2009 | 2,801 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 2010 | 2,639 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2011 | 3,788 kg/ha | +43.5% |
| 2012 | 3,040 kg/ha | -19.7% |
| 2013 | 2,669 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 2014 | 4,756 kg/ha | +78.2% |
| 2015 | 3,368 kg/ha | -29.2% |
| 2016 | 3,553 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2017 | 3,584 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2018 | 2,047 kg/ha | -42.9% |
| 2019 | 1,998 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2020 | 1,990 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2021 | 1,991 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 1,993 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 1,996 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 2,000 kg/ha | +0.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Europe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | +78.2% | 2,669 kg/ha | 4,756 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,925 kg/ha | 2,462 kg/ha | 3,500 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,253 kg/ha | 1,857 kg/ha | 2,518 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,989 kg/ha | 1,593 kg/ha | 2,422 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,340 kg/ha | 1,612 kg/ha | 2,723 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,756 kg/ha | 2,135 kg/ha | 3,429 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,144 kg/ha | 1,998 kg/ha | 4,756 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,994 kg/ha | 1,990 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is locust beans (carobs) — yield in Europe?
- Locust beans (carobs) — yield in Europe was 2,000 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest locust beans (carobs) — yield recorded in Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 4,756 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest locust beans (carobs) — yield recorded in Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,593 kg/ha in 1987.
- How does Europe rank for locust beans (carobs) — yield?
- Europe ranks 10th out of 11 groups with data for 2024.
- Is locust beans (carobs) — yield rising or falling in Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 58.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Europe data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Locust beans (carobs) — 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.