Rice — Yield in Cuba
Cuba: Rice — Yield was 2,063 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Cuba, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, rice — yield in Cuba stood at 2,063 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 5.2% on the previous year and down 39.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Cuba peaked at 3,727 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 1,379 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Cuba 89th out of 114 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Rice — Yield in Cuba, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,379 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,406 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1963 | 1,692 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 1964 | 1,733 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1965 | 1,447 kg/ha | -16.5% |
| 1966 | 2,000 kg/ha | +38.3% |
| 1967 | 1,625 kg/ha | -18.8% |
| 1968 | 1,582 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1969 | 1,751 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1970 | 1,918 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1971 | 2,101 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1972 | 1,870 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1973 | 1,490 kg/ha | -20.3% |
| 1974 | 2,144 kg/ha | +43.9% |
| 1975 | 2,507 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1976 | 2,763 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1977 | 3,003 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1978 | 3,015 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1979 | 2,882 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1980 | 3,243 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1981 | 3,192 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1982 | 3,449 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1983 | 3,472 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1984 | 3,454 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1985 | 3,294 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1986 | 3,344 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1987 | 3,040 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1988 | 3,227 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1989 | 3,204 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1990 | 3,058 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1991 | 2,810 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1992 | 2,190 kg/ha | -22.1% |
| 1993 | 1,911 kg/ha | -12.7% |
| 1994 | 2,325 kg/ha | +21.6% |
| 1995 | 2,560 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1996 | 2,457 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1997 | 2,878 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 1998 | 2,277 kg/ha | -20.9% |
| 1999 | 3,267 kg/ha | +43.5% |
| 2000 | 2,762 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 2001 | 3,269 kg/ha | +18.3% |
| 2002 | 3,496 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2003 | 3,498 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 3,098 kg/ha | -11.5% |
| 2005 | 2,890 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2006 | 3,040 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2007 | 3,230 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2008 | 2,804 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 2009 | 2,612 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 2010 | 2,576 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2011 | 2,722 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2012 | 3,165 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 2013 | 3,400 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2014 | 3,408 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 3,727 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 2016 | 3,671 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2017 | 3,602 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2018 | 3,447 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2019 | 3,346 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2020 | 3,574 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2021 | 3,394 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2022 | 2,713 kg/ha | -20.1% |
| 2023 | 1,962 kg/ha | -27.7% |
| 2024 | 2,063 kg/ha | +5.2% |
Cuba compared with similar countries
- Cuba's 2,063 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 4,474 kg/ha, 46% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
- Cuba's 2,063 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 4,675 kg/ha, 44% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,624 kg/ha | 1,379 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,369 kg/ha | 1,490 kg/ha | 3,015 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,292 kg/ha | 3,040 kg/ha | 3,472 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,574 kg/ha | 1,911 kg/ha | 3,267 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,070 kg/ha | 2,612 kg/ha | 3,498 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,306 kg/ha | 2,576 kg/ha | 3,727 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,741 kg/ha | 1,962 kg/ha | 3,574 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cuba
- 86 Burkina Faso 2,230 kg/ha compare
- 87 Cameroon 2,160 kg/ha compare
- 88 Papua New Guinea 2,159 kg/ha compare
- 90 China, Hong Kong SAR 2,000 kg/ha compare
- 90 Somalia 2,000 kg/ha compare
- 92 Nigeria 1,996 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Cuba
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -19.64 % change on previous year (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0276 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 265.29 current US$ per person (2020)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.6522 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2277 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.2% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.5% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Cuba?
- Rice — yield in Cuba was 2,063 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Cuba?
- The highest recorded value was 3,727 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Cuba?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,379 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Cuba rank for rice — yield?
- Cuba ranks 89th out of 114 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Cuba?
- Over the last ten years it is down 39.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cuba data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Rice — 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.