Watermelons — Yield in Jamaica
Jamaica: Watermelons — Yield was 21,474 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Watermelons — Yield in Jamaica, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Jamaica recorded 21,474 kg/ha for watermelons — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 2.1% on the previous year and up 22.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — yield in Jamaica peaked at 26,251 kg/ha in 1985 and was at its lowest, 6,166 kg/ha, in 1967.
Jamaica ranks 71st of 131 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 | 8,468 kg/ha | 6,166 kg/ha | 10,469 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,939 kg/ha | 9,519 kg/ha | 16,996 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 17,654 kg/ha | 14,393 kg/ha | 26,251 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 20,093 kg/ha | 15,799 kg/ha | 22,590 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 17,206 kg/ha | 14,819 kg/ha | 19,935 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,436 kg/ha | 14,589 kg/ha | 23,403 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 22,796 kg/ha | 21,474 kg/ha | 23,545 kg/ha | 5 |
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More environment data for Jamaica
- Standard Deviation 0.284 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.76 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 12,000 t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 12,000 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import value 6,231 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import quantity 325 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export value 342 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export quantity 507 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import value 35,817 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import quantity 26,721 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — yield in Jamaica?
- Watermelons — yield in Jamaica was 21,474 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 26,251 kg/ha in 1985.
- What is the lowest watermelons — yield recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,166 kg/ha in 1967.
- How does Jamaica rank for watermelons — yield?
- Jamaica ranks 71st out of 131 countries with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — yield rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 22.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Jamaica data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Watermelons — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.