String beans — Yield in Western Europe
Western Europe: String beans — Yield was 12,421 kg/ha in 2017. ▲ Rising
String beans — Yield in Western Europe, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2017, string beans — yield in Western Europe stood at 12,421 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 57 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 9.0% on the previous year and up 20.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, string beans — yield in Western Europe peaked at 12,421 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 4,629 kg/ha, in 1976.
Western Europe ranks 6th of 23 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 57 years of available data.
String beans — Yield in Western Europe, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,858 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,883 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1963 | 6,324 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1964 | 6,389 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1965 | 6,409 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1966 | 6,787 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1967 | 6,517 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1968 | 6,469 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1969 | 6,616 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1970 | 6,088 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1971 | 5,872 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1972 | 5,301 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1973 | 5,437 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1974 | 5,906 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1975 | 5,224 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1976 | 4,629 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1977 | 5,610 kg/ha | +21.2% |
| 1978 | 5,660 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1979 | 6,445 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 1980 | 5,935 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1981 | 6,626 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 1982 | 6,920 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1983 | 6,139 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1984 | 6,544 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1985 | 6,916 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1986 | 6,895 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1987 | 7,269 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1988 | 7,108 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1989 | 6,324 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1990 | 5,286 kg/ha | -16.4% |
| 1991 | 7,223 kg/ha | +36.6% |
| 1992 | 7,154 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1993 | 7,430 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1994 | 9,217 kg/ha | +24.1% |
| 1995 | 9,543 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1996 | 9,353 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1997 | 9,940 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1998 | 9,830 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1999 | 10,476 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2000 | 10,555 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2001 | 11,085 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2002 | 11,284 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2003 | 10,528 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2004 | 11,516 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2005 | 11,736 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2006 | 12,000 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2007 | 10,303 kg/ha | -14.1% |
| 2008 | 10,906 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2009 | 11,548 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2010 | 12,244 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2011 | 11,724 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2012 | 11,816 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2013 | 11,666 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2014 | 11,846 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2015 | 11,626 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2016 | 11,400 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2017 | 12,421 kg/ha | +9.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,361 kg/ha | 5,858 kg/ha | 6,787 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,617 kg/ha | 4,629 kg/ha | 6,445 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,668 kg/ha | 5,935 kg/ha | 7,269 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,545 kg/ha | 5,286 kg/ha | 10,476 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,146 kg/ha | 10,303 kg/ha | 12,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,843 kg/ha | 11,400 kg/ha | 12,421 kg/ha | 8 |
Countries ranked near Western Europe
- 3 Malaysia 13,998 kg/ha
- 3 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 9,848 kg/ha compare
- 4 France 12,421 kg/ha compare
- 5 Jordan 11,968 kg/ha compare
- 6 China 11,604 kg/ha compare
- 6 China, Taiwan Province of 11,604 kg/ha compare
- 6 Polynesia 2,787 kg/ha compare
- 8 Mexico 10,680 kg/ha compare
- 9 Grenada 9,091 kg/ha
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- Meat indigenous, total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Milk, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) -0.0607 % change on previous year (2024)
- Non Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 17.73 % change on previous year (2024)
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- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -0.4719 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -2.21 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.55 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is string beans — yield in Western Europe?
- String beans — yield in Western Europe was 12,421 kg/ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest string beans — yield recorded in Western Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 12,421 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest string beans — yield recorded in Western Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,629 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Western Europe rank for string beans — yield?
- Western Europe ranks 6th out of 23 groups with data for 2017.
- Is string beans — yield rising or falling in Western Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western Europe 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.