Soya beans — Yield in Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Soya beans — Yield was 2,500 kg/ha in 2023. ▲ Rising
Soya beans — Yield in Nicaragua, 1975–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Nicaragua recorded 2,500 kg/ha for soya beans — yield in 2023. That is the highest value across all 49 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 18.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in Nicaragua peaked at 2,500 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 1,304 kg/ha, in 1982.
Nicaragua ranks 25th of 98 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 49 years of available data.
Soya beans — Yield in Nicaragua, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,618 kg/ha | — |
| 1976 | 1,618 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,667 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1978 | 1,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 1,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 1,333 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1982 | 1,304 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1983 | 1,316 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1984 | 1,304 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1985 | 1,312 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1986 | 1,415 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1987 | 1,621 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 1988 | 1,619 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1989 | 1,624 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1990 | 1,643 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1991 | 1,492 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 1992 | 1,648 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1993 | 1,695 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1994 | 2,213 kg/ha | +30.6% |
| 1995 | 2,216 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1996 | 2,217 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 2,133 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1998 | 1,497 kg/ha | -29.8% |
| 1999 | 2,190 kg/ha | +46.3% |
| 2000 | 1,987 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2001 | 1,974 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2002 | 1,982 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2003 | 1,896 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2004 | 2,126 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 2005 | 2,127 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 2,052 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2007 | 2,138 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2008 | 2,006 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2009 | 2,291 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 2010 | 2,209 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2011 | 2,014 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 2012 | 1,828 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 2013 | 2,103 kg/ha | +15.0% |
| 2014 | 1,613 kg/ha | -23.3% |
| 2015 | 1,724 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2016 | 1,724 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1,724 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 1,719 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2019 | 2,500 kg/ha | +45.4% |
| 2020 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
Nicaragua compared with similar countries
- Nicaragua's 2,500 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 1,170 kg/ha, 2.1× the median. (23 countries reporting)
- Nicaragua's 2,500 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 2,060 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (18 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Soya beans — Yield in Nicaragua changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +46.3% | 1,497 kg/ha | 2,190 kg/ha |
| 2019 | +45.4% | 1,719 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha |
| 1994 | +30.6% | 1,695 kg/ha | 2,213 kg/ha |
| 1998 | -29.8% | 2,133 kg/ha | 1,497 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,647 kg/ha | 1,618 kg/ha | 1,667 kg/ha | 5 |
| 1980s | 1,451 kg/ha | 1,304 kg/ha | 1,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,894 kg/ha | 1,492 kg/ha | 2,217 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,058 kg/ha | 1,896 kg/ha | 2,291 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,916 kg/ha | 1,613 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,500 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 4 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Nicaragua
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 12.55 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1448 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 459.4 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8714 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4056 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 14.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 14.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is soya beans — yield in Nicaragua?
- Soya beans — yield in Nicaragua was 2,500 kg/ha in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The highest recorded value was 2,500 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,304 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Nicaragua rank for soya beans — yield?
- Nicaragua ranks 25th out of 98 countries with data for 2023.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in Nicaragua?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nicaragua 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.