Avocados — Yield in Africa
Africa: Avocados — Yield was 9,413 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Avocados — Yield in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for avocados — yield in Africa is 9,413 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.3% on the previous year and up 30.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, avocados — yield in Africa peaked at 9,638 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 4,615 kg/ha, in 1973.
Africa ranks 11th of 25 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Avocados — Yield in Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,005 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,058 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1963 | 4,797 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1964 | 4,913 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1965 | 4,759 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1966 | 4,820 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1967 | 4,900 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1968 | 4,807 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1969 | 4,642 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1970 | 4,650 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1971 | 4,658 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1972 | 4,769 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1973 | 4,615 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1974 | 4,830 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1975 | 5,653 kg/ha | +17.0% |
| 1976 | 5,272 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1977 | 4,851 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1978 | 4,766 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1979 | 5,317 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 1980 | 5,459 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1981 | 5,394 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1982 | 5,434 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1983 | 5,734 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1984 | 5,614 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1985 | 5,642 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1986 | 5,770 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1987 | 6,042 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1988 | 6,155 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1989 | 6,050 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1990 | 6,546 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1991 | 6,693 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1992 | 7,197 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1993 | 7,640 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1994 | 6,682 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 1995 | 6,510 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1996 | 7,123 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1997 | 7,239 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 7,666 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1999 | 6,598 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 2000 | 6,830 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2001 | 6,338 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 2002 | 6,475 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2003 | 6,431 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2004 | 6,328 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2005 | 7,506 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 2006 | 6,951 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 2007 | 6,828 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2008 | 6,989 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2009 | 7,598 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 2010 | 8,594 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 2011 | 7,909 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2012 | 7,803 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 7,084 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 2014 | 7,200 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2015 | 7,084 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2016 | 7,111 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 7,202 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 7,291 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2019 | 7,428 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2020 | 8,253 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2021 | 8,522 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2022 | 8,848 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2023 | 9,638 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2024 | 9,413 kg/ha | -2.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,856 kg/ha | 4,642 kg/ha | 5,058 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,938 kg/ha | 4,615 kg/ha | 5,653 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,729 kg/ha | 5,394 kg/ha | 6,155 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,989 kg/ha | 6,510 kg/ha | 7,666 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,827 kg/ha | 6,328 kg/ha | 7,598 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,471 kg/ha | 7,084 kg/ha | 8,594 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,935 kg/ha | 8,253 kg/ha | 9,638 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Africa
- 8 El Salvador 23,442 kg/ha compare
- 8 Melanesia 8,132 kg/ha compare
- 9 Dominican Republic 21,954 kg/ha compare
- 10 Democratic Republic of the Congo 6,538 kg/ha compare
- 10 Lebanon 20,074 kg/ha compare
- 11 Kenya 18,281 kg/ha compare
- 12 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 5,434 kg/ha compare
- 12 Israel 17,189 kg/ha compare
- 13 Angola 17,182 kg/ha compare
- 14 Brazil 16,889 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is avocados — yield in Africa?
- Avocados — yield in Africa was 9,413 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest avocados — yield recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 9,638 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest avocados — yield recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,615 kg/ha in 1973.
- How does Africa rank for avocados — yield?
- Africa ranks 11th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is avocados — yield rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 30.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Avocados — 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.