Vegetables Primary — Yield in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 24,068 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in Costa Rica, 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 Costa Rica is 24,068 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.4% on the previous year and down 2.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in Costa Rica peaked at 26,670 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 7,388 kg/ha, in 1972.
Costa Rica ranks 61st of 207 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,739 kg/ha | 7,640 kg/ha | 8,017 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,617 kg/ha | 7,388 kg/ha | 7,832 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,438 kg/ha | 7,559 kg/ha | 12,755 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,976 kg/ha | 12,117 kg/ha | 16,631 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 22,166 kg/ha | 17,193 kg/ha | 26,172 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 24,806 kg/ha | 21,377 kg/ha | 26,670 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 24,013 kg/ha | 21,819 kg/ha | 25,013 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Costa Rica
- Agriculture share gdp 3.37 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 3.37 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
- Rural population 20.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 1.04 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.63 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in Costa Rica?
- Vegetables primary — yield in Costa Rica was 24,068 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 26,670 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,388 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Costa Rica rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- Costa Rica ranks 61st out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.8%. 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 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.