Oil palm fruit — Yield by country
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...
What the numbers show
Oil palm fruit — Yield is currently reported for 46 countries. The highest value is 19,770 kg/ha in Malaysia; the lowest is 1,999 kg/ha in Suriname.
The median across all reporting countries is 11,812 kg/ha, and the mean is 11,573 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10.
Over the past decade 18 countries rose and 28 fell. The largest increase was in Guatemala (up 45.2%), and the largest decrease in Solomon Islands (down 48.1%).
Oil palm fruit — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malaysia | 19,770 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.8% | rising |
| 2 | Thailand | 18,333 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.4% | rising |
| 3 | Guatemala | 18,152 kg/ha | 2024 | up 45.2% | rising |
| 4 | Benin | 17,948 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 5 | Indonesia | 16,969 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.6% | rising |
| 6 | Ecuador | 16,870 kg/ha | 2024 | up 32.3% | rising |
| 7 | Costa Rica | 16,400 kg/ha | 2024 | up 44.2% | rising |
| 8 | Nicaragua | 15,357 kg/ha | 2023 | up 18.1% | rising |
| 9 | Colombia | 15,295 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.5% | rising |
| 10 | Peru | 14,691 kg/ha | 2024 | down 10.6% | rising |
| 11 | Brazil | 14,525 kg/ha | 2024 | up 31.9% | rising |
| 12 | Mexico | 14,260 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.8% | falling |
| 13 | United Republic of Tanzania | 14,045 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 14 | Caribbean | 13,797 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 14 | Dominican Republic | 13,797 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 16 | China | 13,167 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.9% | flat |
| 16 | China, mainland | 13,167 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.9% | flat |
| 18 | Cameroon | 13,159 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.6% | flat |
| 19 | Sao Tome and Principe | 12,863 kg/ha | 2024 | up 27.1% | rising |
| 20 | Congo | 12,469 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 21 | Papua New Guinea | 12,460 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.5% | falling |
| 22 | Angola | 12,108 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.2% | rising |
| 23 | Melanesia | 12,036 kg/ha | 2024 | down 13.3% | falling |
| 24 | Madagascar | 11,587 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 25 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 11,283 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 26 | Senegal | 10,915 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 27 | Cambodia | 10,490 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 28 | Equatorial Guinea | 10,232 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 29 | Honduras | 10,224 kg/ha | 2024 | down 28.8% | rising |
| 30 | Panama | 10,122 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 31 | Burundi | 9,999 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 32 | Gambia | 9,984 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 33 | Liberia | 9,791 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 34 | Paraguay | 9,435 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 35 | Gabon | 8,918 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 36 | Togo | 8,520 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 37 | Guinea-Bissau | 8,439 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 38 | Sierra Leone | 7,790 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.4% | flat |
| 39 | Solomon Islands | 7,762 kg/ha | 2024 | down 48.1% | falling |
| 40 | Philippines | 7,638 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | rising |
| 41 | Ghana | 7,364 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.2% | flat |
| 42 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 6,580 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 43 | Côte d'Ivoire | 6,396 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | falling |
| 44 | Guinea | 2,677 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 45 | Nigeria | 2,566 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | flat |
| 46 | Suriname | 1,999 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- South-eastern Asia 17,684 kg/ha
- Asia 17,673 kg/ha
- South America 15,034 kg/ha
- Americas 14,844 kg/ha
- Central America 14,575 kg/ha
- World 14,426 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 13,167 kg/ha
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 12,051 kg/ha
- Oceania 12,036 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 11,570 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 9,637 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 9,533 kg/ha
About this data
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.