Buckwheat — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Buckwheat — Yield was 1,042 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Buckwheat — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1999–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for buckwheat — yield in Eastern Africa is 1,042 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 4.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, buckwheat — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 1,055 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 666.7 kg/ha, in 2002.
Eastern Africa ranks 13th of 21 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Buckwheat — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 750 kg/ha | — |
| 2000 | 800 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2001 | 750 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2002 | 666.7 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 2003 | 750 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2004 | 800 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2005 | 875 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2006 | 800 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 2007 | 833.3 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2008 | 857.1 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2009 | 882.4 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2010 | 842.1 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2011 | 977.8 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 2012 | 1,000 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2013 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 998.9 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,002 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 1,014 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2017 | 1,030 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2018 | 1,043 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2019 | 1,055 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 1,031 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2021 | 1,043 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2022 | 1,043 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 1,039 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2024 | 1,042 kg/ha | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 750 kg/ha | 750 kg/ha | 750 kg/ha | 1 |
| 2000s | 801.45 kg/ha | 666.7 kg/ha | 882.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 996.25 kg/ha | 842.1 kg/ha | 1,055 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,039 kg/ha | 1,031 kg/ha | 1,043 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is buckwheat — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Buckwheat — yield in Eastern Africa was 1,042 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest buckwheat — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,055 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest buckwheat — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 666.7 kg/ha in 2002.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for buckwheat — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 13th out of 21 groups with data for 2024.
- Is buckwheat — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.3%. 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 Buckwheat — 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.