Carrots and turnips — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Carrots and turnips — Yield was 29,898 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, carrots and turnips — yield in Southern Africa stood at 29,898 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 0.3% on the previous year and up 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, carrots and turnips — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 43,571 kg/ha in 1966 and was at its lowest, 20,667 kg/ha, in 1972.
Southern Africa ranks 16th of 28 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 32,143 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 28,571 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 1963 | 38,571 kg/ha | +35.0% |
| 1964 | 40,714 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1965 | 39,286 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1966 | 43,571 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1967 | 41,333 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1968 | 29,000 kg/ha | -29.8% |
| 1969 | 25,600 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1970 | 25,200 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1971 | 22,333 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1972 | 20,667 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1973 | 21,000 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1974 | 25,667 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1975 | 28,000 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1976 | 26,667 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1977 | 30,000 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1978 | 30,190 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1979 | 30,229 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1980 | 35,667 kg/ha | +18.0% |
| 1981 | 35,294 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1982 | 30,588 kg/ha | -13.3% |
| 1983 | 28,462 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 1984 | 29,000 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1985 | 26,000 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1986 | 26,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 26,667 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1988 | 29,667 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1989 | 30,000 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1990 | 27,689 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1991 | 27,736 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1992 | 29,282 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1993 | 27,384 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1994 | 26,025 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1995 | 27,138 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1996 | 26,306 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1997 | 27,283 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1998 | 27,205 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1999 | 27,241 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 27,254 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 27,236 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 24,828 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 2003 | 27,776 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 2004 | 28,185 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2005 | 30,984 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2006 | 31,504 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2007 | 27,947 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 2008 | 27,921 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 27,892 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 28,487 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2011 | 28,042 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2012 | 29,880 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2013 | 29,808 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 29,102 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2015 | 29,106 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 29,226 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 29,303 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 29,332 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 29,420 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 29,487 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 29,411 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2022 | 29,797 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2023 | 30,000 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2024 | 29,898 kg/ha | -0.3% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Carrots and turnips — Yield in Southern 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | +35.0% | 28,571 kg/ha | 38,571 kg/ha |
| 1968 | -29.8% | 41,333 kg/ha | 29,000 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 35,421 kg/ha | 25,600 kg/ha | 43,571 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 25,995 kg/ha | 20,667 kg/ha | 30,229 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 29,734 kg/ha | 26,000 kg/ha | 35,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 27,329 kg/ha | 26,025 kg/ha | 29,282 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 28,153 kg/ha | 24,828 kg/ha | 31,504 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 29,171 kg/ha | 28,042 kg/ha | 29,880 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 29,718 kg/ha | 29,411 kg/ha | 30,000 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is carrots and turnips — yield in Southern Africa?
- Carrots and turnips — yield in Southern Africa was 29,898 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 43,571 kg/ha in 1966.
- What is the lowest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 20,667 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Southern Africa rank for carrots and turnips — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 16th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is carrots and turnips — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Southern 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.