Vanilla, raw — Yield by country

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...

Countries reporting
19
Highest
735.9 kg/ha
Tonga
Lowest
41.5 kg/ha
Madagascar
Median
263.6 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
1,858

What the numbers show

Vanilla, raw — Yield is currently reported for 19 countries. The highest value is 735.9 kg/ha in Tonga; the lowest is 41.5 kg/ha in Madagascar.

The median across all reporting countries is 263.6 kg/ha, and the mean is 365.45 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 18.

Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 8 fell. The largest increase was in Mexico (up 42.0%), and the largest decrease in Cook Islands (down 57.5%).

Vanilla, raw — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Tonga 735.9 kg/ha 2024 up 13.3% volatile
2 Kenya 733.7 kg/ha 2024 up 7.5% volatile
3 Polynesia 709.3 kg/ha 2024 up 14.7% volatile
4 Mexico 637.8 kg/ha 2024 up 42.0% volatile
5 French Polynesia 550.7 kg/ha 2024 up 18.3% volatile
6 Uganda 502.7 kg/ha 2024 down 3.6% rising
7 Cook Islands 433.9 kg/ha 2024 down 57.5% rising
8 Zimbabwe 427 kg/ha 2024 down 0.8% rising
9 Melanesia 264.2 kg/ha 2024 down 2.5% falling
10 Papua New Guinea 263.6 kg/ha 2024 down 2.7% falling
11 Malawi 259.6 kg/ha 2024 up 0.5% rising
12 Caribbean 248.8 kg/ha 2006 up 23.1% volatile
12 Guadeloupe 248.8 kg/ha 2006 up 23.1% volatile
14 Comoros 208 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% falling
15 Türkiye 199.6 kg/ha 2024 down 0.4% falling
16 Indonesia 160.2 kg/ha 2024 up 8.9% flat
17 China, mainland 159.1 kg/ha 2024 down 32.1% volatile
17 China 159.1 kg/ha 2024 down 32.1% volatile
19 Madagascar 41.5 kg/ha 2024 up 1.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Vanilla, raw — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
35 places, 1,858 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.