Spinach — Yield in Central America
Central America: Spinach — Yield was 13,637 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Spinach — Yield in Central America, 1980–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Central America recorded 13,637 kg/ha for spinach — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 6.8% on the previous year and up 3.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, spinach — yield in Central America peaked at 18,806 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 6,586 kg/ha, in 1984.
That places Central America 17th out of 25 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 45 years of available data.
Spinach — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 9,511 kg/ha | — |
| 1981 | 7,646 kg/ha | -19.6% |
| 1982 | 8,030 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1983 | 7,969 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1984 | 6,586 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 1985 | 11,907 kg/ha | +80.8% |
| 1986 | 13,294 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1987 | 10,562 kg/ha | -20.6% |
| 1988 | 10,382 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1989 | 11,781 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 1990 | 11,299 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1991 | 11,816 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1992 | 11,988 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1993 | 11,551 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1994 | 10,852 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1995 | 12,049 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1996 | 13,109 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1997 | 12,699 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1998 | 11,717 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1999 | 10,068 kg/ha | -14.1% |
| 2000 | 10,202 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2001 | 12,638 kg/ha | +23.9% |
| 2002 | 10,692 kg/ha | -15.4% |
| 2003 | 12,562 kg/ha | +17.5% |
| 2004 | 11,709 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 2005 | 14,900 kg/ha | +27.3% |
| 2006 | 13,316 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 2007 | 13,080 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2008 | 13,694 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2009 | 10,649 kg/ha | -22.2% |
| 2010 | 12,096 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 2011 | 11,395 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2012 | 11,831 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2013 | 11,363 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2014 | 13,156 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 2015 | 14,310 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2016 | 13,716 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2017 | 18,806 kg/ha | +37.1% |
| 2018 | 18,326 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2019 | 15,777 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 2020 | 17,231 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 2021 | 17,065 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2022 | 15,635 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 2023 | 14,630 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2024 | 13,637 kg/ha | -6.8% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Spinach — Yield in Central America 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | +80.8% | 6,586 kg/ha | 11,907 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 9,767 kg/ha | 6,586 kg/ha | 13,294 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,715 kg/ha | 10,068 kg/ha | 13,109 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 12,344 kg/ha | 10,202 kg/ha | 14,900 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,078 kg/ha | 11,363 kg/ha | 18,806 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 15,640 kg/ha | 13,637 kg/ha | 17,231 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Central America
More agriculture & rural data for Central America
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.22 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -1.15 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -3.58 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -10.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -1.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.7054 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4048 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -9.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.8347 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is spinach — yield in Central America?
- Spinach — yield in Central America was 13,637 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest spinach — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 18,806 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest spinach — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,586 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Central America rank for spinach — yield?
- Central America ranks 17th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is spinach — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Spinach — 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.