Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Southern Europe
Southern Europe: Locust beans (carobs) — Yield was 3,591 kg/ha in 2017. ▲ Rising
Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Southern Europe, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2017, locust beans (carobs) — yield in Southern Europe stood at 3,591 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.9% on the previous year and up 28.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, locust beans (carobs) — yield in Southern Europe peaked at 4,768 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 57 years of available data.
Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Southern 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 | 2,028 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1993 | 2,388 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 1994 | 2,530 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1995 | 2,481 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1996 | 2,546 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1997 | 2,602 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1998 | 2,557 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1999 | 2,728 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2000 | 2,774 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2001 | 2,667 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2002 | 2,900 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2003 | 2,416 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 2004 | 2,296 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2005 | 3,400 kg/ha | +48.0% |
| 2006 | 2,139 kg/ha | -37.1% |
| 2007 | 2,787 kg/ha | +30.3% |
| 2008 | 3,437 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 2009 | 2,808 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 2010 | 2,645 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2011 | 3,798 kg/ha | +43.6% |
| 2012 | 3,046 kg/ha | -19.8% |
| 2013 | 2,674 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 2014 | 4,768 kg/ha | +78.4% |
| 2015 | 3,373 kg/ha | -29.3% |
| 2016 | 3,560 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2017 | 3,591 kg/ha | +0.9% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Southern 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 | +78.4% | 2,674 kg/ha | 4,768 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 | 2,343 kg/ha | 1,612 kg/ha | 2,728 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,763 kg/ha | 2,139 kg/ha | 3,437 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,432 kg/ha | 2,645 kg/ha | 4,768 kg/ha | 8 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is locust beans (carobs) — yield in Southern Europe?
- Locust beans (carobs) — yield in Southern Europe was 3,591 kg/ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest locust beans (carobs) — yield recorded in Southern Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 4,768 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest locust beans (carobs) — yield recorded in Southern Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,593 kg/ha in 1987.
- How does Southern Europe rank for locust beans (carobs) — yield?
- Southern Europe ranks 5th out of 11 groups with data for 2017.
- Is locust beans (carobs) — yield rising or falling in Southern Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 28.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern 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.