Plums and sloes — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Plums and sloes — Yield was 3,439 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plums and sloes — Yield in Caribbean, 1985–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Caribbean recorded 3,439 kg/ha for plums and sloes — yield in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 40 years on record.
That represents a change of down 0.4% on the previous year and down 4.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plums and sloes — yield in Caribbean peaked at 4,754 kg/ha in 1990 and was at its lowest, 3,439 kg/ha, in 2024.
Caribbean ranks 25th of 25 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 40 years of available data.
Plums and sloes — Yield in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 4,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1986 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 4,067 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1988 | 4,067 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 4,133 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1990 | 4,754 kg/ha | +15.0% |
| 1991 | 4,064 kg/ha | -14.5% |
| 1992 | 3,978 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1993 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1994 | 3,908 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1995 | 3,824 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1996 | 3,835 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 3,808 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1998 | 3,784 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1999 | 3,667 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2000 | 3,745 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2001 | 3,752 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 3,752 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2003 | 3,750 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2004 | 3,747 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2005 | 3,742 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2006 | 3,736 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2007 | 3,750 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 3,708 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2009 | 3,691 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2010 | 3,672 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2011 | 3,653 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2012 | 3,625 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2013 | 3,611 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 3,596 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2015 | 3,588 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2016 | 3,570 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2017 | 3,550 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2018 | 3,528 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2019 | 3,509 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2020 | 3,492 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2021 | 3,484 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2022 | 3,468 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2023 | 3,454 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2024 | 3,439 kg/ha | -0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 4,053 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 4,133 kg/ha | 5 |
| 1990s | 3,962 kg/ha | 3,667 kg/ha | 4,754 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,737 kg/ha | 3,691 kg/ha | 3,752 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,590 kg/ha | 3,509 kg/ha | 3,672 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,467 kg/ha | 3,439 kg/ha | 3,492 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plums and sloes — yield in Caribbean?
- Plums and sloes — yield in Caribbean was 3,439 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 4,754 kg/ha in 1990.
- What is the lowest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,439 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Caribbean rank for plums and sloes — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 25th out of 25 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plums and sloes — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Caribbean data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Plums and sloes — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.