Citrus Fruit, Total — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Citrus Fruit, Total — Yield was 9,714 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Citrus Fruit, Total — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for citrus fruit, total — yield in Eastern Africa is 9,714 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, citrus fruit, total — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 9,717 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 2,754 kg/ha, in 1970.
That places Eastern Africa 24th out of 27 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Citrus Fruit, Total — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,595 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,734 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1963 | 3,793 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1964 | 3,875 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1965 | 3,764 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1966 | 3,637 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1967 | 3,306 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1968 | 3,331 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1969 | 3,317 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1970 | 2,754 kg/ha | -17.0% |
| 1971 | 3,340 kg/ha | +21.3% |
| 1972 | 4,580 kg/ha | +37.1% |
| 1973 | 4,708 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1974 | 5,001 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1975 | 5,223 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1976 | 4,532 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 1977 | 4,914 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1978 | 4,761 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1979 | 5,122 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1980 | 5,139 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1981 | 5,193 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1982 | 5,172 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1983 | 5,198 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1984 | 5,228 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1985 | 5,320 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1986 | 5,511 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1987 | 5,644 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1988 | 5,820 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1989 | 5,725 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1990 | 6,383 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1991 | 5,852 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1992 | 6,041 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1993 | 6,712 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1994 | 6,822 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1995 | 6,862 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 6,338 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1997 | 6,465 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1998 | 6,336 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1999 | 6,537 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2000 | 6,507 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2001 | 6,462 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2002 | 6,236 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2003 | 6,233 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2004 | 6,352 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2005 | 7,003 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2006 | 7,090 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2007 | 7,186 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2008 | 7,765 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2009 | 8,017 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2010 | 8,298 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2011 | 8,229 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2012 | 8,315 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 8,703 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2014 | 9,167 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2015 | 9,100 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2016 | 9,089 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 9,022 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2018 | 8,810 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2019 | 8,876 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 9,507 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2021 | 9,218 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2022 | 9,483 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2023 | 9,717 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2024 | 9,714 kg/ha | -0.0% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Citrus Fruit, Total — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | +37.1% | 3,340 kg/ha | 4,580 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,595 kg/ha | 3,306 kg/ha | 3,875 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,493 kg/ha | 2,754 kg/ha | 5,223 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,395 kg/ha | 5,139 kg/ha | 5,820 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,435 kg/ha | 5,852 kg/ha | 6,862 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,885 kg/ha | 6,233 kg/ha | 8,017 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,761 kg/ha | 8,229 kg/ha | 9,167 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,528 kg/ha | 9,218 kg/ha | 9,717 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 21 Palestine 22,223 kg/ha compare
- 22 El Salvador 22,195 kg/ha compare
- 23 Côte d'Ivoire 9,804 kg/ha compare
- 23 Italy 21,091 kg/ha compare
- 24 Réunion 20,970 kg/ha compare
- 25 Australia 20,822 kg/ha compare
- 26 Kuwait 20,709 kg/ha compare
- 26 Caribbean 4,996 kg/ha compare
- 27 Australia and New Zealand 20,180 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is citrus fruit, total — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Citrus fruit, total — yield in Eastern Africa was 9,714 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest citrus fruit, total — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 9,717 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest citrus fruit, total — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,754 kg/ha in 1970.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for citrus fruit, total — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 24th out of 27 groups with data for 2024.
- Is citrus fruit, total — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.0%. 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 Citrus Fruit, Total — 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.