Barley — Yield in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Barley — Yield was 5,465 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Barley — Yield in Zimbabwe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Zimbabwe recorded 5,465 kg/ha for barley — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and down 0.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, barley — yield in Zimbabwe peaked at 6,279 kg/ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 2,150 kg/ha, in 1961.
Zimbabwe ranks 16th of 111 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,320 kg/ha | 2,150 kg/ha | 3,819 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,182 kg/ha | 3,571 kg/ha | 5,165 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,205 kg/ha | 4,620 kg/ha | 5,760 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,301 kg/ha | 4,262 kg/ha | 5,841 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,405 kg/ha | 4,865 kg/ha | 6,279 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,466 kg/ha | 5,444 kg/ha | 5,492 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,465 kg/ha | 5,463 kg/ha | 5,468 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Zimbabwe
- Agriculture share gdp 9.47 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.47 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
- Rural population 59.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 10.09 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.85 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 325,400 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is barley — yield in Zimbabwe?
- Barley — yield in Zimbabwe was 5,465 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest barley — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 6,279 kg/ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest barley — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,150 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for barley — yield?
- Zimbabwe ranks 16th out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is barley — yield rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zimbabwe data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Barley — Yield. 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.