Rice — Yield in Ecuador
Ecuador: Rice — Yield was 3,879 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for rice — yield in Ecuador is 3,879 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.3% on the previous year and up 24.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Ecuador peaked at 4,356 kg/ha in 2007 and was at its lowest, 1,312 kg/ha, in 1968.
That places Ecuador 68th out of 127 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 2,178 kg/ha | 1,312 kg/ha | 2,993 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,792 kg/ha | 2,094 kg/ha | 3,493 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,971 kg/ha | 2,528 kg/ha | 3,319 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,350 kg/ha | 2,692 kg/ha | 3,738 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,976 kg/ha | 3,600 kg/ha | 4,356 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,433 kg/ha | 3,065 kg/ha | 3,715 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,678 kg/ha | 3,427 kg/ha | 3,879 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 6.70 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.64 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.59 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Ecuador?
- Rice — yield in Ecuador was 3,879 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 4,356 kg/ha in 2007.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,312 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Ecuador rank for rice — yield?
- Ecuador ranks 68th out of 127 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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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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.