Cherries — Yield in Africa
Africa: Cherries — Yield was 3,118 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cherries — Yield in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, cherries — yield in Africa stood at 3,118 kg/ha.
The figure is down 12.3% on the previous year and down 39.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cherries — yield in Africa peaked at 5,496 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 1,268 kg/ha, in 1977.
Africa ranks 23rd of 24 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cherries — Yield in Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,912 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,325 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 1963 | 2,350 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1964 | 3,375 kg/ha | +43.6% |
| 1965 | 3,926 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 1966 | 3,073 kg/ha | -21.7% |
| 1967 | 4,207 kg/ha | +36.9% |
| 1968 | 2,840 kg/ha | -32.5% |
| 1969 | 4,420 kg/ha | +55.6% |
| 1970 | 4,713 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1971 | 3,867 kg/ha | -18.0% |
| 1972 | 4,947 kg/ha | +27.9% |
| 1973 | 2,432 kg/ha | -50.8% |
| 1974 | 1,751 kg/ha | -28.0% |
| 1975 | 1,525 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 1976 | 1,371 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1977 | 1,268 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1978 | 1,359 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1979 | 1,443 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1980 | 1,654 kg/ha | +14.6% |
| 1981 | 1,389 kg/ha | -16.0% |
| 1982 | 1,606 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 1983 | 1,856 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 1984 | 1,307 kg/ha | -29.6% |
| 1985 | 1,584 kg/ha | +21.2% |
| 1986 | 1,576 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1987 | 1,613 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1988 | 1,899 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 1989 | 2,150 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 1990 | 1,744 kg/ha | -18.9% |
| 1991 | 2,235 kg/ha | +28.2% |
| 1992 | 3,481 kg/ha | +55.7% |
| 1993 | 4,794 kg/ha | +37.7% |
| 1994 | 1,728 kg/ha | -64.0% |
| 1995 | 2,288 kg/ha | +32.4% |
| 1996 | 2,212 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1997 | 2,513 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1998 | 2,942 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 1999 | 3,393 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 2000 | 3,360 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2001 | 2,456 kg/ha | -26.9% |
| 2002 | 2,543 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2003 | 2,212 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 2004 | 2,596 kg/ha | +17.4% |
| 2005 | 3,081 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 2006 | 3,102 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 2,560 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 2008 | 3,086 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 2009 | 3,394 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2010 | 2,738 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 2011 | 3,207 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 2012 | 3,452 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2013 | 4,296 kg/ha | +24.5% |
| 2014 | 5,137 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 2015 | 5,496 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 2016 | 2,142 kg/ha | -61.0% |
| 2017 | 2,979 kg/ha | +39.1% |
| 2018 | 3,853 kg/ha | +29.4% |
| 2019 | 4,687 kg/ha | +21.6% |
| 2020 | 3,355 kg/ha | -28.4% |
| 2021 | 3,670 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2022 | 3,556 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2023 | 3,557 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 3,118 kg/ha | -12.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,270 kg/ha | 2,325 kg/ha | 4,420 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,468 kg/ha | 1,268 kg/ha | 4,947 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,663 kg/ha | 1,307 kg/ha | 2,150 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,733 kg/ha | 1,728 kg/ha | 4,794 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,839 kg/ha | 2,212 kg/ha | 3,394 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,799 kg/ha | 2,142 kg/ha | 5,496 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,451 kg/ha | 3,118 kg/ha | 3,670 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Africa
- 20 Belgium-Luxembourg 6,500 kg/ha compare
- 21 Canada 6,314 kg/ha compare
- 22 Australia and New Zealand 5,937 kg/ha compare
- 23 Norway 5,500 kg/ha compare
- 24 Azerbaijan 5,389 kg/ha compare
- 25 Pakistan 5,379 kg/ha compare
- 26 Poland 5,368 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Africa
- Meat indigenous, total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.15 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.38 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 1.64 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 1.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.72 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 2.94 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.21 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) 1.84 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.44 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.96 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cherries — yield in Africa?
- Cherries — yield in Africa was 3,118 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cherries — yield recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 5,496 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest cherries — yield recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,268 kg/ha in 1977.
- How does Africa rank for cherries — yield?
- Africa ranks 23rd out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cherries — yield rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 39.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cherries — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.