Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield was 2,159 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Costa Rica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 2,159 kg/ha for unmanufactured tobacco — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 3.5% on the previous year and up 15.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 2,474 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 786.3 kg/ha, in 2001.
That places Costa Rica 42nd out of 128 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 961.3 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,008 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1963 | 1,029 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1964 | 1,120 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1965 | 921.6 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 1966 | 969.1 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1967 | 1,099 kg/ha | +13.4% |
| 1968 | 1,179 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1969 | 954.6 kg/ha | -19.0% |
| 1970 | 1,038 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1971 | 1,023 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1972 | 1,023 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,059 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1974 | 1,020 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1975 | 1,209 kg/ha | +18.5% |
| 1976 | 1,288 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1977 | 1,235 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1978 | 1,205 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1979 | 1,059 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1980 | 1,016 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1981 | 808.1 kg/ha | -20.4% |
| 1982 | 1,202 kg/ha | +48.7% |
| 1983 | 1,773 kg/ha | +47.5% |
| 1984 | 1,650 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1985 | 1,170 kg/ha | -29.1% |
| 1986 | 1,387 kg/ha | +18.5% |
| 1987 | 1,806 kg/ha | +30.2% |
| 1988 | 1,730 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1989 | 1,682 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1990 | 1,830 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1991 | 1,593 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 1992 | 1,921 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 1993 | 1,927 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1994 | 1,725 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 1995 | 1,698 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1996 | 1,700 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1997 | 1,496 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 1998 | 1,500 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1999 | 1,816 kg/ha | +21.0% |
| 2000 | 1,598 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 2001 | 786.3 kg/ha | -50.8% |
| 2002 | 1,460 kg/ha | +85.7% |
| 2003 | 1,460 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 1,815 kg/ha | +24.3% |
| 2005 | 1,982 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 2006 | 1,905 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2007 | 1,768 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 2008 | 1,580 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 2009 | 1,409 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 2010 | 1,580 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 2011 | 1,727 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 2012 | 1,850 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2013 | 1,875 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 1,875 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 2,000 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2016 | 1,750 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2017 | 1,750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 2,000 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 2019 | 1,833 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 2020 | 2,474 kg/ha | +34.9% |
| 2021 | 2,102 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 2022 | 2,136 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2023 | 2,238 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2024 | 2,159 kg/ha | -3.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,027 kg/ha | 921.6 kg/ha | 1,179 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,116 kg/ha | 1,020 kg/ha | 1,288 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,422 kg/ha | 808.1 kg/ha | 1,806 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,721 kg/ha | 1,496 kg/ha | 1,927 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,576 kg/ha | 786.3 kg/ha | 1,982 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,824 kg/ha | 1,580 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,222 kg/ha | 2,102 kg/ha | 2,474 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Costa Rica?
- Unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Costa Rica was 2,159 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest unmanufactured tobacco — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 2,474 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest unmanufactured tobacco — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 786.3 kg/ha in 2001.
- How does Costa Rica rank for unmanufactured tobacco — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 42nd out of 128 countries with data for 2024.
- Is unmanufactured tobacco — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Costa Rica data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Unmanufactured tobacco — 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.