Soya beans — Yield in Ecuador
Ecuador: Soya beans — Yield was 1,318 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Soya beans — Yield in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for soya beans — yield in Ecuador is 1,318 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 12.9% on the previous year and up 7.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in Ecuador peaked at 2,152 kg/ha in 1994 and was at its lowest, 600.8 kg/ha, in 1969.
Ecuador ranks 65th of 98 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Soya beans — Yield in Ecuador, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,250 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,231 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1963 | 1,214 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1964 | 1,200 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1965 | 1,250 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1966 | 1,312 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1967 | 1,400 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1968 | 1,388 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1969 | 600.8 kg/ha | -56.7% |
| 1970 | 983.6 kg/ha | +63.7% |
| 1971 | 1,145 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 1972 | 1,168 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1973 | 1,282 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1974 | 1,420 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1975 | 1,500 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1976 | 1,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,299 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1978 | 1,500 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 1979 | 1,345 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1980 | 1,345 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 1,573 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1982 | 1,755 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 1983 | 1,400 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 1984 | 1,674 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 1985 | 1,814 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1986 | 1,940 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1987 | 1,801 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1988 | 1,808 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1989 | 1,865 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1990 | 1,987 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1991 | 1,660 kg/ha | -16.5% |
| 1992 | 1,642 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1993 | 1,761 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1994 | 2,152 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1995 | 1,094 kg/ha | -49.2% |
| 1996 | 1,260 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 1997 | 1,136 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 1998 | 1,269 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1999 | 1,813 kg/ha | +42.9% |
| 2000 | 1,706 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2001 | 1,890 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 2002 | 1,996 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2003 | 1,748 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2004 | 1,661 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2005 | 1,965 kg/ha | +18.3% |
| 2006 | 1,150 kg/ha | -41.5% |
| 2007 | 1,719 kg/ha | +49.5% |
| 2008 | 1,600 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2009 | 1,658 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2010 | 1,628 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2011 | 1,625 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,692 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2013 | 1,658 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2014 | 1,232 kg/ha | -25.7% |
| 2015 | 1,454 kg/ha | +17.9% |
| 2016 | 1,590 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2017 | 1,249 kg/ha | -21.4% |
| 2018 | 1,102 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 2019 | 1,462 kg/ha | +32.7% |
| 2020 | 1,384 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2021 | 1,068 kg/ha | -22.9% |
| 2022 | 1,332 kg/ha | +24.8% |
| 2023 | 1,513 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 2024 | 1,318 kg/ha | -12.9% |
Ecuador compared with similar countries
- Ecuador's 1,318 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1,932 kg/ha, 68% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
- Ecuador's 1,318 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 2,060 kg/ha, 64% of the median. (18 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,205 kg/ha | 600.8 kg/ha | 1,400 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,314 kg/ha | 983.6 kg/ha | 1,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,698 kg/ha | 1,345 kg/ha | 1,940 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,577 kg/ha | 1,094 kg/ha | 2,152 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,709 kg/ha | 1,150 kg/ha | 1,996 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,469 kg/ha | 1,102 kg/ha | 1,692 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,323 kg/ha | 1,068 kg/ha | 1,513 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.59 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.097 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 691.36 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4287 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3661 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 9.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is soya beans — yield in Ecuador?
- Soya beans — yield in Ecuador was 1,318 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 2,152 kg/ha in 1994.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 600.8 kg/ha in 1969.
- How does Ecuador rank for soya beans — yield?
- Ecuador ranks 65th out of 98 countries with data for 2024.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.0%. 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 Soya beans — 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.