Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield was 8,114 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is 8,114 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 35.9% on the previous year and down 35.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 13,873 kg/ha in 2002 and was at its lowest, 4,274 kg/ha, in 1963.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,370 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,503 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1963 | 4,274 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1964 | 4,518 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1965 | 4,971 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1966 | 5,138 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1967 | 5,348 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1968 | 6,104 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 1969 | 6,333 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1970 | 6,377 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1971 | 6,625 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1972 | 6,022 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1973 | 5,833 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1974 | 5,778 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1975 | 5,304 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1976 | 5,107 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1977 | 5,291 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1978 | 5,216 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1979 | 7,376 kg/ha | +41.4% |
| 1980 | 7,488 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1981 | 6,989 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1982 | 6,806 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1983 | 6,760 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1984 | 7,428 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1985 | 7,426 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1986 | 7,728 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1987 | 7,394 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1988 | 7,276 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1989 | 7,026 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1990 | 6,944 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1991 | 7,681 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 1992 | 8,327 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1993 | 8,737 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1994 | 9,347 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1995 | 9,947 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1996 | 10,912 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1997 | 11,683 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1998 | 12,079 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1999 | 13,416 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2000 | 13,428 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2001 | 13,759 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2002 | 13,873 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2003 | 10,531 kg/ha | -24.1% |
| 2004 | 6,846 kg/ha | -35.0% |
| 2005 | 6,818 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2006 | 7,007 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2007 | 8,164 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 2008 | 8,343 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2009 | 9,019 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2010 | 9,825 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2011 | 9,650 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2012 | 8,871 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2013 | 9,450 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2014 | 12,597 kg/ha | +33.3% |
| 2015 | 12,026 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2016 | 9,114 kg/ha | -24.2% |
| 2017 | 13,544 kg/ha | +48.6% |
| 2018 | 11,284 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 2019 | 11,045 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2020 | 11,719 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2021 | 11,740 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 12,209 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2023 | 12,655 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2024 | 8,114 kg/ha | -35.9% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | +48.6% | 9,114 kg/ha | 13,544 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,062 kg/ha | 4,274 kg/ha | 6,333 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,893 kg/ha | 5,107 kg/ha | 7,376 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,232 kg/ha | 6,760 kg/ha | 7,728 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9,907 kg/ha | 6,944 kg/ha | 13,416 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,779 kg/ha | 6,818 kg/ha | 13,873 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 10,741 kg/ha | 8,871 kg/ha | 13,544 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,288 kg/ha | 8,114 kg/ha | 12,655 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
- 10 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 10,274 kg/ha compare
- 10 Sweden 158,708 kg/ha compare
- 11 Switzerland 142,455 kg/ha compare
- 11 Timor-Leste 8,564 kg/ha compare
- 12 Austria 134,344 kg/ha compare
- 12 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 8,554 kg/ha compare
- 13 Germany 127,753 kg/ha compare
- 14 Kuwait 127,513 kg/ha compare
- 14 Republic of Moldova 4,855 kg/ha compare
- 15 Cabo Verde 25,833 kg/ha compare
- 15 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,176 kg/ha compare
- 15 United Arab Emirates 124,662 kg/ha compare
- 16 Belgium-Luxembourg 123,364 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 8,114 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cucumbers and gherkins — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 13,873 kg/ha in 2002.
- What is the lowest cucumbers and gherkins — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,274 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for cucumbers and gherkins — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 13th out of 16 groups with data for 2024.
- Is cucumbers and gherkins — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 35.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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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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.