Cotton seed — Production in Somalia
Somalia: Cotton seed — Production was 4,746 t in 2023. ▲ Rising
Cotton seed — Production in Somalia, 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cotton seed — production in Somalia is 4,746 t, measured in 2023. That is the highest value across all 63 years on record.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 5.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cotton seed — production in Somalia peaked at 4,746 t in 2023 and was at its lowest, 800 t, in 1974.
Somalia ranks 55th of 121 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,300 t | 1,710 t | 3,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,052 t | 800 t | 3,023 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,900 t | 2,000 t | 4,200 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,423 t | 2,000 t | 4,100 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,204 t | 3,900 t | 4,488 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,495 t | 4,480 t | 4,521 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,690 t | 4,604 t | 4,746 t | 4 |
Countries ranked near Somalia
More agriculture & rural data for Somalia
- Rural population growth 2.2% (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 55.79 (1990)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 575.39 million current US$ (1990)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 55.8% (1990)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 55.79 (1990)
- Rural population 8.82 million (2025)
- Rural population 44.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (1982)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 7.1% (1982)
- Capture fisheries vs aquaculture 0 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cotton seed — production in Somalia?
- Cotton seed — production in Somalia was 4,746 t in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cotton seed — production recorded in Somalia?
- The highest recorded value was 4,746 t in 2023.
- What is the lowest cotton seed — production recorded in Somalia?
- The lowest recorded value was 800 t in 1974.
- How does Somalia rank for cotton seed — production?
- Somalia ranks 55th out of 121 countries with data for 2023.
- Is cotton seed — production rising or falling in Somalia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Somalia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cotton seed — Production. 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.