Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — 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...

Countries reporting
50
Highest
72,883 kg/ha
French Polynesia
Lowest
79.4 kg/ha
Fiji
Median
963.35 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,448

What the numbers show

Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Yield is currently reported for 50 countries. The highest value is 72,883 kg/ha in French Polynesia; the lowest is 79.4 kg/ha in Fiji.

The median across all reporting countries is 963.35 kg/ha, and the mean is 3,793 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 918.

Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 17 fell. The largest increase was in Polynesia (up 575.1%), and the largest decrease in Philippines (down 65.4%).

Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 French Polynesia 72,883 kg/ha 2024 up 7.2% falling
2 Tajikistan 20,910 kg/ha 2024 up 107.4% rising
3 Iraq 10,792 kg/ha 2024 up 78.0% rising
4 Zimbabwe 10,000 kg/ha 2024 up 66.7% volatile
5 Cambodia 6,722 kg/ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
6 Polynesia 4,479 kg/ha 2024 up 575.1% volatile
7 Costa Rica 4,269 kg/ha 2024 down 56.4% volatile
8 Malaysia 4,151 kg/ha 2024 up 141.8% falling
9 Grenada 4,000 kg/ha 2024 up 4.6% rising
10 Caribbean 3,966 kg/ha 2024 up 417.4% volatile
11 Saint Lucia 3,613 kg/ha 2024 up 371.4% volatile
12 Rwanda 3,550 kg/ha 2024 down 6.7% falling
13 Peru 3,493 kg/ha 2024 up 30.8% falling
14 Brazil 2,946 kg/ha 2024 up 32.7% rising
15 Mexico 2,852 kg/ha 2024 up 122.9% rising
16 Thailand 2,842 kg/ha 2024 down 0.3% rising
17 Viet Nam 2,659 kg/ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
18 Ecuador 1,982 kg/ha 2024 down 1.2% falling
19 China, mainland 1,880 kg/ha 2024 up 3.5% volatile
20 China 1,878 kg/ha 2024 up 3.5% volatile
21 China, Macao SAR 1,720 kg/ha 2024 up 2.7% rising
22 Namibia 1,392 kg/ha 2024 down 2.6% flat
23 Uganda 1,312 kg/ha 2024 up 16.9% rising
24 Kyrgyzstan 1,112 kg/ha 2024 up 5.0% rising
25 Kenya 1,017 kg/ha 2024 up 12.7% rising
26 Sri Lanka 909.8 kg/ha 2024 up 29.5% rising
27 Zambia 849.7 kg/ha 2024 down 0.5% rising
28 Burkina Faso 791.9 kg/ha 2024 down 2.3% flat
29 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 769.1 kg/ha 2024 up 4.4% rising
30 Malawi 747.4 kg/ha 2024 up 2.0% rising
31 Ghana 687.6 kg/ha 2024 up 1.7% rising
32 Ethiopia PDR 666.7 kg/ha 1992 up 33.3% falling
33 Uzbekistan 649.2 kg/ha 2024 down 2.6% falling
34 Ethiopia 627.2 kg/ha 2024 up 3.5% rising
35 Guatemala 620.4 kg/ha 2024 up 2.2% rising
36 Samoa 614.9 kg/ha 2024 down 7.3% rising
37 Côte d'Ivoire 605.2 kg/ha 2024 down 6.9% falling
38 Madagascar 573.8 kg/ha 2024 up 4.1% rising
39 Philippines 524.6 kg/ha 2024 down 65.4% falling
40 Honduras 461.6 kg/ha 2024 down 1.8% falling
41 United Republic of Tanzania 444.3 kg/ha 2024 down 5.9% rising
42 Guyana 419.7 kg/ha 2024 up 1.6% falling
43 India 402.8 kg/ha 2024 down 2.1% rising
44 Indonesia 382.7 kg/ha 2024 down 28.8% falling
45 Brunei Darussalam 363.6 kg/ha 2024 down 11.9% falling
46 Cameroon 350.5 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
47 Niger 310.9 kg/ha 2024 down 1.5% falling
48 Benin 289.5 kg/ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
49 Melanesia 80.5 kg/ha 2024 up 3.1% rising
50 Fiji 79.4 kg/ha 2024 up 1.7% rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
71 places, 3,448 data points, 1961–2024
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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.