Oil palm fruit yields by country

Yield is the amount produced per unit of land used, measured in tonnes per hectare.

Countries reporting
44
Highest
19.77 tonnes per hectare
Malaysia
Lowest
2 tonnes per hectare
Suriname
Median
11.1 tonnes per hectare
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
2,605

What the numbers show

Oil palm fruit yields is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 19.77 tonnes per hectare in Malaysia; the lowest is 2 tonnes per hectare in Suriname.

The median across all reporting countries is 11.1 tonnes per hectare, and the mean is 11.43 tonnes per hectare.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10.

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Guatemala (up 45.2%), and the largest decrease in Solomon Islands (down 48.1%).

Oil palm fruit yields: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Malaysia 19.77 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 2.8% rising
2 Thailand 18.33 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 5.4% rising
3 Guatemala 18.15 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 45.2% rising
4 Benin 17.95 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 11.1% rising
5 Indonesia 16.97 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 6.6% rising
6 Ecuador 16.87 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 32.3% rising
7 Costa Rica 16.4 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 44.2% rising
8 Nicaragua 15.36 tonnes per hectare 2023 up 18.1% rising
9 Colombia 15.3 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 21.5% rising
10 Peru 14.69 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 10.6% rising
11 Brazil 14.52 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 31.9% rising
12 Mexico 14.26 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 6.8% falling
13 Tanzania 14.05 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 0.8% rising
14 Dominican Republic 13.8 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 1.8% falling
15 China 13.17 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 1.9% flat
16 Cameroon 13.16 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 14.6% flat
17 Sao Tome and Principe 12.86 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 27.1% rising
18 Congo 12.47 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 0.1% flat
19 Papua New Guinea 12.46 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 9.5% falling
20 Angola 12.11 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 0.2% rising
21 Madagascar 11.59 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 0.1% rising
22 Venezuela 11.28 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 9.7% rising
23 Senegal 10.91 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 0.1% rising
24 Cambodia 10.49 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 6.2% falling
25 Equatorial Guinea 10.23 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 0.2% flat
26 Honduras 10.22 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 28.8% rising
27 Panama 10.12 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 0.2% flat
28 Burundi 10 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 0.7% rising
29 Gambia 9.98 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 0.1% flat
30 Liberia 9.79 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 2.3% flat
31 Central African Republic 9.48 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 5.7% falling
32 Paraguay 9.44 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 0.5% rising
33 Gabon 8.92 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 0.4% rising
34 Togo 8.52 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 1.6% flat
35 Guinea-Bissau 8.44 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 0.4% rising
36 Sierra Leone 7.79 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 2.4% flat
37 Solomon Islands 7.76 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 48.1% falling
38 Philippines 7.64 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 3.8% rising
39 Ghana 7.36 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 5.2% flat
40 Democratic Republic of Congo 6.58 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 0.2% flat
41 Cote d'Ivoire 6.4 tonnes per hectare 2024 up 0.2% falling
42 Guinea 2.68 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 0.1% flat
43 Nigeria 2.57 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 2.6% flat
44 Suriname 2 tonnes per hectare 2024 down 0.0% volatile

About this data

Indicator
Oil palm fruit yields
Unit
tonnes per hectare
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
44 places, 2,605 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

Yield is the amount produced per unit of land used, measured in tonnes per hectare.