Spinach — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Spinach — Yield was 5,399 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Spinach — Yield in Costa Rica, 1997–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, spinach — yield in Costa Rica stood at 5,399 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 0.5% on the previous year and up 1.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, spinach — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 6,667 kg/ha in 1997 and was at its lowest, 5,228 kg/ha, in 2020.
That places Costa Rica 56th out of 67 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 28 years of available data.
Spinach — Yield in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6,667 kg/ha | — |
| 1998 | 6,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 6,250 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2000 | 6,250 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 6,000 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2002 | 6,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 5,833 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2004 | 5,833 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 5,714 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2006 | 5,714 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 5,625 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2008 | 5,625 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 5,556 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2010 | 5,556 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 5,500 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2012 | 5,420 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2013 | 5,379 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2014 | 5,314 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2015 | 5,275 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2016 | 5,321 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 5,303 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 5,299 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 5,308 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 5,228 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2021 | 5,373 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2022 | 5,398 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 5,427 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2024 | 5,399 kg/ha | -0.5% |
Costa Rica compared with similar countries
- Costa Rica's 5,399 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 10,617 kg/ha, 51% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
- Costa Rica's 5,399 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 15,089 kg/ha, 36% of the median. (8 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 6,528 kg/ha | 6,250 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 3 |
| 2000s | 5,815 kg/ha | 5,556 kg/ha | 6,250 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,368 kg/ha | 5,275 kg/ha | 5,556 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,365 kg/ha | 5,228 kg/ha | 5,427 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Costa Rica
More agriculture & rural data for Costa Rica
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0337 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 672.15 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.57 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2027 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is spinach — yield in Costa Rica?
- Spinach — yield in Costa Rica was 5,399 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest spinach — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 6,667 kg/ha in 1997.
- What is the lowest spinach — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,228 kg/ha in 2020.
- How does Costa Rica rank for spinach — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 56th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is spinach — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Costa Rica 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.