Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield was 14,014 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Sri Lanka, 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 Sri Lanka is 14,014 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 6.0% on the previous year and up 28.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Sri Lanka peaked at 14,911 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 827.5 kg/ha, in 1968.
That places Sri Lanka 100th out of 134 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Sri Lanka, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,771 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,779 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1963 | 1,218 kg/ha | -56.2% |
| 1964 | 5,047 kg/ha | +314.3% |
| 1965 | 4,540 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1966 | 2,001 kg/ha | -55.9% |
| 1967 | 1,571 kg/ha | -21.5% |
| 1968 | 827.5 kg/ha | -47.3% |
| 1969 | 1,537 kg/ha | +85.8% |
| 1970 | 1,826 kg/ha | +18.8% |
| 1971 | 2,549 kg/ha | +39.6% |
| 1972 | 2,452 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1973 | 2,015 kg/ha | -17.8% |
| 1974 | 2,462 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1975 | 4,091 kg/ha | +66.2% |
| 1976 | 3,885 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1977 | 3,929 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1978 | 4,171 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1979 | 8,832 kg/ha | +111.8% |
| 1980 | 9,808 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1981 | 8,394 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1982 | 8,702 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1983 | 10,609 kg/ha | +21.9% |
| 1984 | 11,416 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1985 | 11,840 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1986 | 9,954 kg/ha | -15.9% |
| 1987 | 7,911 kg/ha | -20.5% |
| 1988 | 10,157 kg/ha | +28.4% |
| 1989 | 11,095 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1990 | 11,038 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1991 | 8,328 kg/ha | -24.6% |
| 1992 | 8,346 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 8,894 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1994 | 9,126 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1995 | 9,000 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1996 | 8,857 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1997 | 8,728 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1998 | 8,559 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1999 | 8,393 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2000 | 7,872 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2001 | 8,008 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2002 | 8,089 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2003 | 7,402 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 2004 | 8,580 kg/ha | +15.9% |
| 2005 | 8,490 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2006 | 8,660 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2007 | 9,692 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 2008 | 9,557 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2009 | 10,278 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2010 | 10,157 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2011 | 9,994 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2012 | 10,515 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2013 | 10,868 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2014 | 10,903 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 11,844 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 2016 | 12,823 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2017 | 12,746 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2018 | 13,339 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2019 | 13,487 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 14,301 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2021 | 13,954 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2022 | 12,737 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 2023 | 14,911 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 2024 | 14,014 kg/ha | -6.0% |
Sri Lanka compared with similar countries
- Sri Lanka's 14,014 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 19,413 kg/ha, 72% of the median. (39 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Cucumbers and gherkins — Yield in Sri Lanka 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | +314.3% | 1,218 kg/ha | 5,047 kg/ha |
| 1979 | +111.8% | 4,171 kg/ha | 8,832 kg/ha |
| 1969 | +85.8% | 827.5 kg/ha | 1,537 kg/ha |
| 1975 | +66.2% | 2,462 kg/ha | 4,091 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,477 kg/ha | 827.5 kg/ha | 5,047 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,621 kg/ha | 1,826 kg/ha | 8,832 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,989 kg/ha | 7,911 kg/ha | 11,840 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,927 kg/ha | 8,328 kg/ha | 11,038 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,663 kg/ha | 7,402 kg/ha | 10,278 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,668 kg/ha | 9,994 kg/ha | 13,487 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 13,984 kg/ha | 12,737 kg/ha | 14,911 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 9.1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0836 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 418.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.9172 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7955 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 8.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Sri Lanka?
- Cucumbers and gherkins — yield in Sri Lanka was 14,014 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest cucumbers and gherkins — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 14,911 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest cucumbers and gherkins — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 827.5 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for cucumbers and gherkins — yield?
- Sri Lanka ranks 100th out of 134 countries with data for 2024.
- Is cucumbers and gherkins — yield rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is up 28.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.