Avocados — Yield in Western Africa
Western Africa: Avocados — Yield was 6,401 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Avocados — Yield in Western 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 Western Africa is 6,401 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 5.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, avocados — yield in Western Africa peaked at 6,468 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 3,904 kg/ha, in 1967.
Western Africa ranks 19th of 25 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Avocados — Yield in Western Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 3,938 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1966 | 4,026 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1967 | 3,904 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1968 | 4,000 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1969 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 3,962 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1974 | 3,962 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 3,962 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 4,000 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1977 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 3,993 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1981 | 3,993 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 4,027 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1983 | 3,979 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1984 | 3,946 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1985 | 3,939 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1986 | 3,913 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1987 | 4,079 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1988 | 4,116 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1989 | 4,245 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1990 | 5,225 kg/ha | +23.1% |
| 1991 | 3,996 kg/ha | -23.5% |
| 1992 | 4,038 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1993 | 4,149 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1994 | 4,128 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1995 | 4,151 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 4,236 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1997 | 4,302 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 4,320 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1999 | 4,331 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2000 | 4,331 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2001 | 5,412 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 2002 | 4,326 kg/ha | -20.1% |
| 2003 | 4,336 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 4,340 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 5,701 kg/ha | +31.4% |
| 2006 | 5,589 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2007 | 5,426 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2008 | 5,593 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2009 | 5,813 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2010 | 5,776 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2011 | 5,825 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 5,904 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2013 | 6,017 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2014 | 6,079 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 6,153 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2016 | 6,211 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 6,294 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 6,383 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2019 | 6,468 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 6,349 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2021 | 6,398 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 6,408 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 6,389 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 6,401 kg/ha | +0.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Avocados — Yield in Western 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | +31.4% | 4,340 kg/ha | 5,701 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,985 kg/ha | 3,904 kg/ha | 4,026 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,988 kg/ha | 3,962 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,023 kg/ha | 3,913 kg/ha | 4,245 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,288 kg/ha | 3,996 kg/ha | 5,225 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,087 kg/ha | 4,326 kg/ha | 5,813 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,111 kg/ha | 5,776 kg/ha | 6,468 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,389 kg/ha | 6,349 kg/ha | 6,408 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is avocados — yield in Western Africa?
- Avocados — yield in Western Africa was 6,401 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest avocados — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 6,468 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest avocados — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,904 kg/ha in 1967.
- How does Western Africa rank for avocados — yield?
- Western Africa ranks 19th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is avocados — yield rising or falling in Western Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western 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.