Carrots and turnips — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Carrots and turnips — Yield was 10,909 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 10,909 kg/ha for carrots and turnips — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 8.5% on the previous year and down 40.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, carrots and turnips — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 22,148 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 4,329 kg/ha, in 1991.
Eastern Africa ranks 27th of 28 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,312 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,879 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1963 | 8,036 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1964 | 7,756 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1965 | 8,776 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 1966 | 9,240 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1967 | 8,981 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1968 | 9,116 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1969 | 9,112 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1970 | 9,978 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1971 | 10,860 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1972 | 12,349 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 1973 | 13,811 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 1974 | 15,353 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1975 | 15,063 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1976 | 18,371 kg/ha | +22.0% |
| 1977 | 5,380 kg/ha | -70.7% |
| 1978 | 4,984 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 1979 | 4,926 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1980 | 4,879 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1981 | 4,831 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1982 | 4,868 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1983 | 4,865 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1984 | 4,696 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1985 | 4,679 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1986 | 4,756 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1987 | 4,703 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1988 | 4,822 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1989 | 4,676 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1990 | 4,539 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1991 | 4,329 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1992 | 10,678 kg/ha | +146.7% |
| 1993 | 10,498 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1994 | 9,806 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1995 | 10,575 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1996 | 10,118 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1997 | 11,382 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1998 | 10,298 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 1999 | 8,773 kg/ha | -14.8% |
| 2000 | 9,423 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2001 | 11,522 kg/ha | +22.3% |
| 2002 | 11,710 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2003 | 9,150 kg/ha | -21.9% |
| 2004 | 9,526 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2005 | 8,869 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2006 | 9,550 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2007 | 10,275 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2008 | 11,948 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 2009 | 13,674 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 2010 | 9,680 kg/ha | -29.2% |
| 2011 | 11,299 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 2012 | 21,349 kg/ha | +88.9% |
| 2013 | 22,148 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2014 | 18,324 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 2015 | 11,206 kg/ha | -38.8% |
| 2016 | 10,346 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 2017 | 14,490 kg/ha | +40.1% |
| 2018 | 17,504 kg/ha | +20.8% |
| 2019 | 21,535 kg/ha | +23.0% |
| 2020 | 10,842 kg/ha | -49.7% |
| 2021 | 12,013 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 2022 | 11,208 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2023 | 11,927 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2024 | 10,909 kg/ha | -8.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Carrots and turnips — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | +146.7% | 4,329 kg/ha | 10,678 kg/ha |
| 2012 | +88.9% | 11,299 kg/ha | 21,349 kg/ha |
| 1977 | -70.7% | 18,371 kg/ha | 5,380 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,468 kg/ha | 7,312 kg/ha | 9,240 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,107 kg/ha | 4,926 kg/ha | 18,371 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,778 kg/ha | 4,676 kg/ha | 4,879 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,100 kg/ha | 4,329 kg/ha | 11,382 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,565 kg/ha | 8,869 kg/ha | 13,674 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,788 kg/ha | 9,680 kg/ha | 22,148 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,380 kg/ha | 10,842 kg/ha | 12,013 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is carrots and turnips — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Carrots and turnips — yield in Eastern Africa was 10,909 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 22,148 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,329 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for carrots and turnips — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 27th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is carrots and turnips — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 40.5%. 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 Carrots and turnips — 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.