Oil palm fruit — Yield in Brazil
Brazil: Oil palm fruit — Yield was 14,525 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oil palm fruit — Yield in Brazil, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Brazil recorded 14,525 kg/ha for oil palm fruit — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.8% on the previous year and up 31.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oil palm fruit — yield in Brazil peaked at 14,712 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 7,588 kg/ha, in 1991.
Brazil ranks 11th of 41 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Oil palm fruit — Yield in Brazil, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,870 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1963 | 11,250 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1964 | 11,034 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1965 | 10,500 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1966 | 10,577 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1967 | 10,652 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1968 | 10,408 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1969 | 10,546 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1970 | 10,454 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1971 | 10,400 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1972 | 10,000 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1973 | 10,345 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1974 | 10,323 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1975 | 10,606 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1976 | 10,465 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1977 | 10,526 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1978 | 10,563 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1979 | 10,526 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1980 | 10,526 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 10,606 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1982 | 10,526 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1983 | 10,465 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1984 | 10,454 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1985 | 10,741 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1986 | 10,690 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1987 | 10,833 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1988 | 10,952 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1989 | 10,720 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1990 | 9,939 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1991 | 7,588 kg/ha | -23.7% |
| 1992 | 8,063 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1993 | 9,422 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1994 | 9,818 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1995 | 10,008 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1996 | 10,150 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1997 | 9,833 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1998 | 9,523 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1999 | 8,533 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 2000 | 8,289 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2001 | 9,123 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2002 | 9,161 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2003 | 10,436 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 2004 | 10,387 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 10,276 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2006 | 12,510 kg/ha | +21.7% |
| 2007 | 10,522 kg/ha | -15.9% |
| 2008 | 10,577 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2009 | 10,802 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 12,147 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2011 | 11,929 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2012 | 10,969 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2013 | 11,477 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2014 | 11,014 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2015 | 11,315 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 11,959 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2017 | 14,656 kg/ha | +22.5% |
| 2018 | 13,926 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2019 | 14,556 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2020 | 14,219 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2021 | 14,646 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2022 | 14,712 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 14,404 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2024 | 14,525 kg/ha | +0.8% |
Brazil compared with similar countries
- Brazil's 14,525 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 14,392 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (16 countries reporting)
- Brazil's 14,525 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 14,525 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (13 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,649 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 11,250 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,421 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 10,606 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,651 kg/ha | 10,454 kg/ha | 10,952 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,288 kg/ha | 7,588 kg/ha | 10,150 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,208 kg/ha | 8,289 kg/ha | 12,510 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,395 kg/ha | 10,969 kg/ha | 14,656 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,501 kg/ha | 14,219 kg/ha | 14,712 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Brazil
More agriculture & rural data for Brazil
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.36 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0609 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 652.04 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.95 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1182 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oil palm fruit — yield in Brazil?
- Oil palm fruit — yield in Brazil was 14,525 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 14,712 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,588 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Brazil rank for oil palm fruit — yield?
- Brazil ranks 11th out of 41 countries with data for 2024.
- Is oil palm fruit — yield rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 31.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Brazil data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Oil palm fruit — 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.