Cabbages — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Cabbages — Yield was 30,004 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cabbages — Yield in Kenya, 1991–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cabbages — yield in Kenya is 30,004 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 12.1% on the previous year and down 3.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cabbages — yield in Kenya peaked at 50,749 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 13,293 kg/ha, in 1994.
Kenya ranks 50th of 148 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 34 years of available data.
Cabbages — Yield in Kenya, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 15,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1992 | 14,970 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1993 | 13,855 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1994 | 13,293 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1995 | 15,387 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 1996 | 14,652 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1997 | 13,583 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1998 | 13,441 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1999 | 13,448 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 14,071 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2001 | 15,101 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2002 | 13,755 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2003 | 15,860 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 2004 | 17,827 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 2005 | 24,232 kg/ha | +35.9% |
| 2006 | 24,044 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2007 | 24,477 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2008 | 24,095 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2009 | 30,135 kg/ha | +25.1% |
| 2010 | 35,802 kg/ha | +18.8% |
| 2011 | 29,086 kg/ha | -18.8% |
| 2012 | 26,147 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2013 | 30,088 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 2014 | 30,916 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2015 | 28,304 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 2016 | 28,814 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2017 | 50,749 kg/ha | +76.1% |
| 2018 | 29,739 kg/ha | -41.4% |
| 2019 | 32,228 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2020 | 32,500 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 35,000 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2022 | 39,661 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 2023 | 34,122 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 2024 | 30,004 kg/ha | -12.1% |
Kenya compared with similar countries
- Kenya's 30,004 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 26,565 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (26 countries reporting)
- Kenya's 30,004 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 18,716 kg/ha, 1.6× the median. (19 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cabbages — Yield in Kenya 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | +76.1% | 28,814 kg/ha | 50,749 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 14,181 kg/ha | 13,293 kg/ha | 15,387 kg/ha | 9 |
| 2000s | 20,360 kg/ha | 13,755 kg/ha | 30,135 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 32,187 kg/ha | 26,147 kg/ha | 50,749 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 34,257 kg/ha | 30,004 kg/ha | 39,661 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Kenya
More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 16.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2316 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 547.24 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6779 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 23.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cabbages — yield in Kenya?
- Cabbages — yield in Kenya was 30,004 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cabbages — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 50,749 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest cabbages — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 13,293 kg/ha in 1994.
- How does Kenya rank for cabbages — yield?
- Kenya ranks 50th out of 148 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cabbages — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cabbages — 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.