String beans — Yield in Central America
Central America: String beans — Yield was 10,680 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
String beans — Yield in Central America, 1980–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Central America recorded 10,680 kg/ha for string beans — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 45 years on record.
The figure is up 4.6% on the previous year and up 17.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, string beans — yield in Central America peaked at 10,680 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 4,739 kg/ha, in 1988.
Central America ranks 10th of 23 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 45 years of available data.
String beans — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5,457 kg/ha | — |
| 1981 | 4,834 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1982 | 5,815 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 1983 | 5,311 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1984 | 5,755 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1985 | 6,217 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1986 | 5,420 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 1987 | 5,871 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1988 | 4,739 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 1989 | 5,265 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1990 | 5,652 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1991 | 6,058 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1992 | 6,109 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1993 | 7,024 kg/ha | +15.0% |
| 1994 | 5,284 kg/ha | -24.8% |
| 1995 | 5,424 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1996 | 7,571 kg/ha | +39.6% |
| 1997 | 7,558 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1998 | 6,700 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1999 | 10,613 kg/ha | +58.4% |
| 2000 | 8,677 kg/ha | -18.2% |
| 2001 | 9,493 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2002 | 9,647 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2003 | 9,973 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2004 | 10,528 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2005 | 9,509 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 2006 | 9,939 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2007 | 10,003 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2008 | 10,043 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2009 | 8,452 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 2010 | 9,453 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 2011 | 9,319 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2012 | 8,970 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2013 | 8,986 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 9,102 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2015 | 8,782 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2016 | 9,073 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2017 | 9,623 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2018 | 10,324 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2019 | 9,596 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 2020 | 9,751 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2021 | 9,914 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2022 | 10,354 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2023 | 10,206 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2024 | 10,680 kg/ha | +4.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where String beans — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +58.4% | 6,700 kg/ha | 10,613 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5,468 kg/ha | 4,739 kg/ha | 6,217 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,799 kg/ha | 5,284 kg/ha | 10,613 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,626 kg/ha | 8,452 kg/ha | 10,528 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,323 kg/ha | 8,782 kg/ha | 10,324 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,181 kg/ha | 9,751 kg/ha | 10,680 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production 1.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value -0.7982 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is string beans — yield in Central America?
- String beans — yield in Central America was 10,680 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest string beans — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 10,680 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest string beans — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,739 kg/ha in 1988.
- How does Central America rank for string beans — yield?
- Central America ranks 10th out of 23 groups with data for 2024.
- Is string beans — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.3%. 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 String 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.