Vegetables Primary — Yield in El Salvador
El Salvador: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 20,892 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in El Salvador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
El Salvador recorded 20,892 kg/ha for vegetables primary — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 3.3% on the previous year and up 48.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in El Salvador peaked at 22,075 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 10,232 kg/ha, in 1991.
El Salvador ranks 71st of 191 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.
Vegetables Primary — Yield in El Salvador, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 10,553 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,567 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1963 | 10,839 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1964 | 11,199 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1965 | 11,289 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1966 | 11,797 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1967 | 12,264 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1968 | 12,641 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1969 | 12,800 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1970 | 13,292 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1971 | 13,066 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1972 | 13,692 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1973 | 13,354 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1974 | 13,301 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1975 | 13,406 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1976 | 11,684 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 1977 | 11,853 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1978 | 13,996 kg/ha | +18.1% |
| 1979 | 11,988 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1980 | 12,241 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1981 | 12,492 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1982 | 12,458 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1983 | 13,509 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1984 | 13,539 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1985 | 13,455 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1986 | 13,122 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1987 | 13,381 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1988 | 12,453 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1989 | 12,402 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1990 | 12,505 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1991 | 10,232 kg/ha | -18.2% |
| 1992 | 12,257 kg/ha | +19.8% |
| 1993 | 14,544 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 1994 | 13,133 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1995 | 13,890 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1996 | 17,128 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 1997 | 17,952 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1998 | 17,551 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1999 | 14,141 kg/ha | -19.4% |
| 2000 | 12,772 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 2001 | 12,924 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2002 | 13,199 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2003 | 14,510 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2004 | 14,993 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2005 | 15,425 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2006 | 15,536 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 16,041 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2008 | 16,173 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2009 | 14,266 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 2010 | 14,428 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 14,281 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2012 | 15,438 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2013 | 13,950 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 2014 | 14,097 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 13,330 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2016 | 15,674 kg/ha | +17.6% |
| 2017 | 17,688 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 2018 | 15,633 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 2019 | 22,075 kg/ha | +41.2% |
| 2020 | 20,862 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2021 | 21,988 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2022 | 19,894 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 2023 | 20,234 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2024 | 20,892 kg/ha | +3.3% |
El Salvador compared with similar countries
- El Salvador's 20,892 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 14,535 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (50 countries reporting)
- El Salvador's 20,892 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 15,009 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (32 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Vegetables Primary — Yield in El Salvador 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | +41.2% | 15,633 kg/ha | 22,075 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,550 kg/ha | 10,553 kg/ha | 12,800 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 12,963 kg/ha | 11,684 kg/ha | 13,996 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,905 kg/ha | 12,241 kg/ha | 13,539 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,333 kg/ha | 10,232 kg/ha | 17,952 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,584 kg/ha | 12,772 kg/ha | 16,173 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,659 kg/ha | 13,330 kg/ha | 22,075 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 20,774 kg/ha | 19,894 kg/ha | 21,988 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 2.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.044 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 253.9 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2448 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in El Salvador?
- Vegetables primary — yield in El Salvador was 20,892 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 22,075 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,232 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does El Salvador rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- El Salvador ranks 71st out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 48.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.