Avocados — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Avocados — Yield was 11,605 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Avocados — Yield in Eastern 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 Eastern Africa is 11,605 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 3.1% on the previous year and up 31.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, avocados — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 14,551 kg/ha in 1961 and was at its lowest, 6,429 kg/ha, in 1978.
That places Eastern Africa 6th out of 25 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Avocados — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 14,551 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 14,551 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 14,551 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 14,551 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 14,551 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 14,551 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 14,551 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 14,551 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 14,050 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1970 | 13,672 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1971 | 13,335 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1972 | 11,884 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1973 | 11,850 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1974 | 10,926 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1975 | 13,754 kg/ha | +25.9% |
| 1976 | 10,712 kg/ha | -22.1% |
| 1977 | 6,633 kg/ha | -38.1% |
| 1978 | 6,429 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1979 | 10,743 kg/ha | +67.1% |
| 1980 | 11,802 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1981 | 10,836 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1982 | 10,813 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1983 | 11,456 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1984 | 11,754 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1985 | 10,841 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1986 | 10,740 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1987 | 10,742 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 10,742 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 10,723 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1990 | 10,617 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1991 | 9,370 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1992 | 10,139 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1993 | 12,062 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 1994 | 6,740 kg/ha | -44.1% |
| 1995 | 10,884 kg/ha | +61.5% |
| 1996 | 10,413 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1997 | 11,140 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1998 | 11,018 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1999 | 11,385 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2000 | 9,406 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 2001 | 9,876 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2002 | 9,382 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2003 | 10,742 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 2004 | 10,177 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2005 | 11,213 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2006 | 10,920 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2007 | 10,292 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2008 | 11,074 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2009 | 11,958 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2010 | 14,311 kg/ha | +19.7% |
| 2011 | 11,990 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 2012 | 10,153 kg/ha | -15.3% |
| 2013 | 9,584 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2014 | 8,818 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2015 | 7,810 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 2016 | 7,961 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2017 | 7,941 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 8,622 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 2019 | 8,414 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2020 | 9,666 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 2021 | 10,210 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2022 | 10,712 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2023 | 11,980 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 2024 | 11,605 kg/ha | -3.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Avocados — Yield in Eastern Africa changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | +67.1% | 6,429 kg/ha | 10,743 kg/ha |
| 1995 | +61.5% | 6,740 kg/ha | 10,884 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,495 kg/ha | 14,050 kg/ha | 14,551 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,994 kg/ha | 6,429 kg/ha | 13,754 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,045 kg/ha | 10,723 kg/ha | 11,802 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,377 kg/ha | 6,740 kg/ha | 12,062 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,504 kg/ha | 9,382 kg/ha | 11,958 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 9,560 kg/ha | 7,810 kg/ha | 14,311 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 10,835 kg/ha | 9,666 kg/ha | 11,980 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 3 Palestine 40,634 kg/ha compare
- 4 French Guiana 39,618 kg/ha compare
- 4 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 11,538 kg/ha compare
- 5 Samoa 30,199 kg/ha compare
- 5 Viet Nam 11,447 kg/ha compare
- 6 Panama 28,612 kg/ha compare
- 6 Türkiye 11,026 kg/ha compare
- 7 Guatemala 23,823 kg/ha compare
- 7 Polynesia 10,939 kg/ha compare
- 8 El Salvador 23,442 kg/ha compare
- 8 Melanesia 8,132 kg/ha compare
- 9 Dominican Republic 21,954 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is avocados — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Avocados — yield in Eastern Africa was 11,605 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest avocados — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 14,551 kg/ha in 1961.
- What is the lowest avocados — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,429 kg/ha in 1978.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for avocados — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 6th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is avocados — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 31.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Eastern 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.