Rice — Yield in El Salvador
El Salvador: Rice — Yield was 7,020 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in El Salvador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
El Salvador recorded 7,020 kg/ha for rice — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.4% on the previous year and up 19.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in El Salvador peaked at 7,987 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 2,012 kg/ha, in 1961.
El Salvador ranks 13th of 127 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,566 kg/ha | 2,012 kg/ha | 3,332 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,390 kg/ha | 2,588 kg/ha | 3,944 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,771 kg/ha | 3,166 kg/ha | 4,153 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,666 kg/ha | 3,767 kg/ha | 5,329 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,809 kg/ha | 5,788 kg/ha | 7,937 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,527 kg/ha | 5,478 kg/ha | 7,987 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,980 kg/ha | 6,751 kg/ha | 7,326 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture share gdp 4.4 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.4 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 24.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 1.56 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.62 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,054 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in El Salvador?
- Rice — yield in El Salvador was 7,020 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 7,987 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,012 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does El Salvador rank for rice — yield?
- El Salvador ranks 13th out of 127 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.