Vegetables Primary — Yield in South America
South America: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 20,383 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in South America, 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 South America is 20,383 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.3% on the previous year and up 8.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in South America peaked at 20,383 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 6,985 kg/ha, in 1961.
South America ranks 16th of 33 groups 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 | 7,777 kg/ha | 6,985 kg/ha | 8,430 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,830 kg/ha | 8,661 kg/ha | 11,366 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 12,072 kg/ha | 11,527 kg/ha | 12,698 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 14,219 kg/ha | 13,202 kg/ha | 15,638 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,632 kg/ha | 15,720 kg/ha | 17,159 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 18,431 kg/ha | 17,120 kg/ha | 19,548 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,643 kg/ha | 19,153 kg/ha | 20,383 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South America
More agriculture & rural data for South America
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.00 million ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 20.74 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 132,585 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 62,811 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 8.33 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 747,608 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 401,333 ha (2024)
- Milk, Total — Production 69.74 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight 2,181 g/An (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Production 22.62 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in South America?
- Vegetables primary — yield in South America was 20,383 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 20,383 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,985 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does South America rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- South America ranks 16th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in South America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South America 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.