Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Africa
Africa: Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield was 4,467 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Africa stood at 4,467 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.4% on the previous year and down 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Africa peaked at 16,951 kg/ha in 1986 and was at its lowest, 3,811 kg/ha, in 2016.
That places Africa 30th out of 31 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12,626 kg/ha | 11,964 kg/ha | 13,207 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 14,061 kg/ha | 13,146 kg/ha | 15,454 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 15,528 kg/ha | 14,560 kg/ha | 16,951 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,205 kg/ha | 5,518 kg/ha | 8,278 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,567 kg/ha | 4,822 kg/ha | 8,026 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,491 kg/ha | 3,811 kg/ha | 5,282 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,523 kg/ha | 4,345 kg/ha | 4,736 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 50 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 1.67 million ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 31.26 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 2.29 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 706,446 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 613,627 ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 55.77 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 47.50 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 2.37 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 26.38 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Africa?
- Cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Africa was 4,467 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cucumbers and gherkins — yield recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 16,951 kg/ha in 1986.
- What is the lowest cucumbers and gherkins — yield recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,811 kg/ha in 2016.
- How does Africa rank for cucumbers and gherkins — yield?
- Africa ranks 30th out of 31 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cucumbers and gherkins — yield rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield. 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.