Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Yield in Central America
Central America: Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Yield was 18,876 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Yield in Central America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Central America recorded 18,876 kg/ha for pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 3.0% on the previous year and up 13.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield in Central America peaked at 21,805 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 3,884 kg/ha, in 1985.
Central America ranks 12th of 33 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,962 kg/ha | 9,914 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,015 kg/ha | 9,118 kg/ha | 10,947 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,436 kg/ha | 3,884 kg/ha | 12,178 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,566 kg/ha | 7,586 kg/ha | 14,919 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,031 kg/ha | 12,688 kg/ha | 19,427 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,640 kg/ha | 15,893 kg/ha | 21,805 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,346 kg/ha | 18,876 kg/ha | 20,075 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 82 kg/An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 25.41 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 215,845 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 100,964 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 50,692 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 5.12 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 32,019 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 25.03 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 2.05 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 67,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield in Central America?
- Pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield in Central America was 18,876 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 21,805 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,884 kg/ha in 1985.
- How does Central America rank for pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield?
- Central America ranks 12th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Pumpkins, squash and gourds — 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.