What is the difference in bean yields between Lesotho and Somalia?

0.1289 tonnes per hectare, with Somalia ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Lesotho and Somalia?

64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.

Where does this data come from?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Bean yields. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Lesotho vs Somalia: Bean yields

Lesotho

0.171 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Somalia

0.2999 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Lesotho rank

132nd

Somalia rank

130th

Bean yields over time

Lesotho
Somalia

How they compare

Somalia currently reports 0.2999 tonnes per hectare against 0.171 tonnes per hectare in Lesotho, a difference of 0.1289 tonnes per hectare.

That makes Somalia's figure about 1.8 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 17 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Lesotho ahead.

Lesotho ranks 132nd and Somalia ranks 130th of 133 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Lesotho averaged higher in 5 and Somalia in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Lesotho	Somalia	Difference	Ahead
1960s	0.2681 tonnes per hectare	0.2619 tonnes per hectare	0.0062 tonnes per hectare	Lesotho
1970s	0.5318 tonnes per hectare	0.4147 tonnes per hectare	0.1172 tonnes per hectare	Lesotho
1980s	0.3549 tonnes per hectare	0.4255 tonnes per hectare	0.0706 tonnes per hectare	Somalia
1990s	0.8031 tonnes per hectare	0.2567 tonnes per hectare	0.5464 tonnes per hectare	Lesotho
2000s	0.4328 tonnes per hectare	0.2734 tonnes per hectare	0.1594 tonnes per hectare	Lesotho
2010s	0.3043 tonnes per hectare	0.3027 tonnes per hectare	0.0016 tonnes per hectare	Lesotho
2020s	0.2989 tonnes per hectare	0.299 tonnes per hectare	0.0002 tonnes per hectare	Somalia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher bean yields, Lesotho or Somalia?: Somalia, at 0.2999 tonnes per hectare against 0.171 tonnes per hectare in Lesotho as of 2024.
What is the difference in bean yields between Lesotho and Somalia?: 0.1289 tonnes per hectare, with Somalia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Lesotho and Somalia?: 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Lesotho and Somalia rank globally for bean yields?: Lesotho ranks 132nd and Somalia ranks 130th of 133 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Bean yields. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Lesotho vs Somalia: Bean yields. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/bean-yields/lesotho/somalia-fed-rep/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/bean-yields/lesotho/somalia-fed-rep/">Lesotho vs Somalia: Bean yields</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Bean 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: 133 places, 6,635 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed: 18 September 2026

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