Asparagus — Area harvested in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Asparagus — Area harvested was 113 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Asparagus — Area harvested in Eastern Africa, 1990–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for asparagus — area harvested in Eastern Africa is 113 ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 36.1% on the previous year and up 11.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, asparagus — area harvested in Eastern Africa peaked at 154 ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 56 ha, in 1997.
Eastern Africa ranks 22nd of 24 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 35 years of available data.
Asparagus — Area harvested in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 60 ha | — |
| 1991 | 62 ha | +3.3% |
| 1992 | 75 ha | +21.0% |
| 1993 | 60 ha | -20.0% |
| 1994 | 100 ha | +66.7% |
| 1995 | 97 ha | -3.0% |
| 1996 | 76 ha | -21.6% |
| 1997 | 56 ha | -26.3% |
| 1998 | 71 ha | +26.8% |
| 1999 | 97 ha | +36.6% |
| 2000 | 84 ha | -13.4% |
| 2001 | 88 ha | +4.8% |
| 2002 | 99 ha | +12.5% |
| 2003 | 72 ha | -27.3% |
| 2004 | 96 ha | +33.3% |
| 2005 | 100 ha | +4.2% |
| 2006 | 101 ha | +1.0% |
| 2007 | 102 ha | +1.0% |
| 2008 | 101 ha | -1.0% |
| 2009 | 103 ha | +2.0% |
| 2010 | 101 ha | -1.9% |
| 2011 | 103 ha | +2.0% |
| 2012 | 100 ha | -2.9% |
| 2013 | 113 ha | +13.0% |
| 2014 | 101 ha | -10.6% |
| 2015 | 154 ha | +52.5% |
| 2016 | 146 ha | -5.2% |
| 2017 | 132 ha | -9.6% |
| 2018 | 144 ha | +9.1% |
| 2019 | 141 ha | -2.1% |
| 2020 | 132 ha | -6.4% |
| 2021 | 132 ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 143 ha | +8.3% |
| 2023 | 83 ha | -42.0% |
| 2024 | 113 ha | +36.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 75.4 ha | 56 ha | 100 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 94.6 ha | 72 ha | 103 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 123.5 ha | 100 ha | 154 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 120.6 ha | 83 ha | 143 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is asparagus — area harvested in Eastern Africa?
- Asparagus — area harvested in Eastern Africa was 113 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest asparagus — area harvested recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 154 ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest asparagus — area harvested recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 56 ha in 1997.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for asparagus — area harvested?
- Eastern Africa ranks 22nd out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is asparagus — area harvested rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Asparagus — Area harvested. 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.