Watermelons — Yield in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia: Watermelons — Yield was 36,860 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Watermelons — Yield in Saint Lucia, 2004–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Saint Lucia recorded 36,860 kg/ha for watermelons — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.2% on the previous year and up 59.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — yield in Saint Lucia peaked at 40,083 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 18,375 kg/ha, in 2008.
Saint Lucia ranks 31st of 119 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 21 years of available data.
Watermelons — Yield in Saint Lucia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 18,429 kg/ha | — |
| 2005 | 19,600 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2006 | 18,546 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2007 | 19,417 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2008 | 18,375 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2009 | 19,300 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2010 | 19,233 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2011 | 19,303 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 19,625 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2013 | 19,438 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2014 | 23,047 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 2015 | 29,448 kg/ha | +27.8% |
| 2016 | 35,127 kg/ha | +19.3% |
| 2017 | 40,083 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 2018 | 38,462 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2019 | 37,600 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2020 | 36,000 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2021 | 36,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 36,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 36,429 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2024 | 36,860 kg/ha | +1.2% |
Saint Lucia compared with similar countries
- Saint Lucia's 36,860 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 23,757 kg/ha, 1.6× the median. (41 countries reporting)
- Saint Lucia's 36,860 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 19,151 kg/ha, 1.9× the median. (27 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 18,944 kg/ha | 18,375 kg/ha | 19,600 kg/ha | 6 |
| 2010s | 28,137 kg/ha | 19,233 kg/ha | 40,083 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 36,258 kg/ha | 36,000 kg/ha | 36,860 kg/ha | 5 |
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More environment data for Saint Lucia
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -2.19 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.257 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.32 °C (2025)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 3.15 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate -0.4464 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — yield in Saint Lucia?
- Watermelons — yield in Saint Lucia was 36,860 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — yield recorded in Saint Lucia?
- The highest recorded value was 40,083 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest watermelons — yield recorded in Saint Lucia?
- The lowest recorded value was 18,375 kg/ha in 2008.
- How does Saint Lucia rank for watermelons — yield?
- Saint Lucia ranks 31st out of 119 countries with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — yield rising or falling in Saint Lucia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 59.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Saint Lucia 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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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.