Vegetables Primary — Yield in Caribbean
Caribbean: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 13,131 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in Caribbean, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for vegetables primary — yield in Caribbean is 13,131 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.2% on the previous year and up 7.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in Caribbean peaked at 13,754 kg/ha in 2003 and was at its lowest, 5,324 kg/ha, in 1991.
That places Caribbean 22nd out of 29 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Vegetables Primary — Yield in Caribbean, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,673 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,654 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1963 | 5,480 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1964 | 5,510 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1965 | 6,439 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1966 | 6,544 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1967 | 6,615 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1968 | 6,390 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1969 | 6,722 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1970 | 6,376 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1971 | 6,515 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1972 | 5,688 kg/ha | -12.7% |
| 1973 | 6,766 kg/ha | +18.9% |
| 1974 | 8,416 kg/ha | +24.4% |
| 1975 | 7,165 kg/ha | -14.9% |
| 1976 | 7,408 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1977 | 6,938 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1978 | 7,353 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1979 | 7,396 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1980 | 7,398 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 8,518 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 1982 | 7,776 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1983 | 6,929 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1984 | 7,570 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1985 | 8,019 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1986 | 7,703 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1987 | 8,117 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1988 | 7,910 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1989 | 6,873 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 1990 | 6,109 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 1991 | 5,324 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 1992 | 5,920 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1993 | 5,732 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1994 | 5,952 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1995 | 7,188 kg/ha | +20.8% |
| 1996 | 7,720 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1997 | 7,970 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1998 | 7,696 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1999 | 10,892 kg/ha | +41.5% |
| 2000 | 12,741 kg/ha | +17.0% |
| 2001 | 12,487 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2002 | 13,328 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2003 | 13,754 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2004 | 12,558 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 2005 | 12,796 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2006 | 11,552 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 2007 | 11,095 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2008 | 9,765 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 2009 | 9,650 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2010 | 9,954 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2011 | 11,126 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 2012 | 10,850 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2013 | 11,278 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2014 | 12,226 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2015 | 12,511 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2016 | 12,609 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2017 | 12,339 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2018 | 12,330 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 12,341 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 12,376 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 12,380 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 12,278 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2023 | 13,292 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2024 | 13,131 kg/ha | -1.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Vegetables Primary — Yield in Caribbean 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 | +41.5% | 7,696 kg/ha | 10,892 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6,114 kg/ha | 5,480 kg/ha | 6,722 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,002 kg/ha | 5,688 kg/ha | 8,416 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,681 kg/ha | 6,873 kg/ha | 8,518 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,050 kg/ha | 5,324 kg/ha | 10,892 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,973 kg/ha | 9,650 kg/ha | 13,754 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,756 kg/ha | 9,954 kg/ha | 12,609 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,691 kg/ha | 12,278 kg/ha | 13,292 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) 13.21 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 24.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.41 % change on previous year (2024)
- Non Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 6.21 % change on previous year (2024)
- Milk, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.79 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat indigenous, total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.21 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 2.96 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 14.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 9.37 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in Caribbean?
- Vegetables primary — yield in Caribbean was 13,131 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The highest recorded value was 13,754 kg/ha in 2003.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Caribbean?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,324 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Caribbean rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- Caribbean ranks 22nd out of 29 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in Caribbean?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Vegetables Primary — 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.