Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Yield in Central America
Central America: Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Yield was 1,903 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Yield in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Central America recorded 1,903 kg/ha for pepper (piper spp.), raw — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 3.2% on the previous year and up 53.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pepper (piper spp.), raw — yield in Central America peaked at 2,020 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 765 kg/ha, in 1990.
Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,500 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,458 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1963 | 1,667 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1964 | 1,622 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1965 | 1,500 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1966 | 1,630 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1967 | 1,675 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1968 | 1,674 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1969 | 1,731 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1970 | 1,545 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1971 | 1,765 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 1972 | 1,765 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,724 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1974 | 1,818 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1975 | 1,517 kg/ha | -16.6% |
| 1976 | 1,953 kg/ha | +28.7% |
| 1977 | 1,274 kg/ha | -34.7% |
| 1978 | 1,340 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1979 | 1,153 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 1980 | 871.3 kg/ha | -24.4% |
| 1981 | 1,514 kg/ha | +73.8% |
| 1982 | 1,291 kg/ha | -14.7% |
| 1983 | 1,468 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 1984 | 1,272 kg/ha | -13.3% |
| 1985 | 1,718 kg/ha | +35.0% |
| 1986 | 912 kg/ha | -46.9% |
| 1987 | 809.4 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1988 | 855 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1989 | 780.9 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1990 | 765 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1991 | 1,078 kg/ha | +40.9% |
| 1992 | 1,855 kg/ha | +72.1% |
| 1993 | 1,159 kg/ha | -37.5% |
| 1994 | 1,146 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1995 | 1,928 kg/ha | +68.2% |
| 1996 | 1,004 kg/ha | -47.9% |
| 1997 | 965.7 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1998 | 826.5 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1999 | 1,523 kg/ha | +84.3% |
| 2000 | 1,206 kg/ha | -20.8% |
| 2001 | 1,214 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 1,205 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2003 | 1,471 kg/ha | +22.1% |
| 2004 | 1,471 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2005 | 1,048 kg/ha | -28.7% |
| 2006 | 1,182 kg/ha | +12.7% |
| 2007 | 1,525 kg/ha | +29.0% |
| 2008 | 1,502 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2009 | 1,472 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2010 | 1,300 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 2011 | 1,175 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 2012 | 1,112 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2013 | 1,088 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2014 | 1,239 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 2015 | 1,256 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2016 | 1,326 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2017 | 1,812 kg/ha | +36.6% |
| 2018 | 2,020 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 2019 | 1,957 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2020 | 1,921 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2021 | 1,866 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2022 | 1,999 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2023 | 1,966 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2024 | 1,903 kg/ha | -3.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — Yield in Central America 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +84.3% | 826.5 kg/ha | 1,523 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,606 kg/ha | 1,458 kg/ha | 1,731 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,585 kg/ha | 1,153 kg/ha | 1,953 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,149 kg/ha | 780.9 kg/ha | 1,718 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,225 kg/ha | 765 kg/ha | 1,928 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,330 kg/ha | 1,048 kg/ha | 1,525 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,428 kg/ha | 1,088 kg/ha | 2,020 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,931 kg/ha | 1,866 kg/ha | 1,999 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
- 3 Iraq 10,792 kg/ha compare
- 3 Caribbean 3,966 kg/ha compare
- 4 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 769.1 kg/ha compare
- 4 Zimbabwe 10,000 kg/ha compare
- 5 Cambodia 6,722 kg/ha compare
- 6 Costa Rica 4,269 kg/ha compare
- 6 United Republic of Tanzania 444.3 kg/ha compare
- 7 Malaysia 4,151 kg/ha compare
- 8 Grenada 4,000 kg/ha compare
- 9 Saint Lucia 3,613 kg/ha compare
- 9 Melanesia 80.5 kg/ha compare
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- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4048 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -9.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.8347 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is pepper (piper spp.), raw — yield in Central America?
- Pepper (piper spp.), raw — yield in Central America was 1,903 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pepper (piper spp.), raw — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 2,020 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest pepper (piper spp.), raw — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 765 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Central America rank for pepper (piper spp.), raw — yield?
- Central America ranks 6th out of 19 groups with data for 2024.
- Is pepper (piper spp.), raw — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 53.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Central America data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Pepper (Piper spp.), raw — 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.