Dates — Production in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Dates — Production was 22,050 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Dates — Production in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Middle Africa recorded 22,050 t for dates — production in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 6.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, dates — production in Middle Africa peaked at 25,280 t in 1982 and was at its lowest, 17,686 t, in 2003.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Dates — Production in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 25,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 25,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 20,000 t | -20.0% |
| 1964 | 18,000 t | -10.0% |
| 1965 | 18,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 20,000 t | +11.1% |
| 1967 | 20,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 22,000 t | +10.0% |
| 1969 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 23,000 t | +4.5% |
| 1973 | 25,000 t | +8.7% |
| 1974 | 25,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 25,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 25,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 25,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 25,150 t | +0.6% |
| 1979 | 25,030 t | -0.5% |
| 1980 | 25,030 t | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 25,150 t | +0.5% |
| 1982 | 25,280 t | +0.5% |
| 1983 | 25,100 t | -0.7% |
| 1984 | 25,100 t | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 25,100 t | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 25,100 t | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 25,110 t | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 25,110 t | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 25,120 t | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 24,855 t | -1.1% |
| 1991 | 17,935 t | -27.8% |
| 1992 | 18,161 t | +1.3% |
| 1993 | 18,250 t | +0.5% |
| 1994 | 18,238 t | -0.1% |
| 1995 | 18,281 t | +0.2% |
| 1996 | 18,320 t | +0.2% |
| 1997 | 18,361 t | +0.2% |
| 1998 | 18,392 t | +0.2% |
| 1999 | 18,433 t | +0.2% |
| 2000 | 18,475 t | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 18,517 t | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 18,559 t | +0.2% |
| 2003 | 17,686 t | -4.7% |
| 2004 | 17,924 t | +1.3% |
| 2005 | 18,203 t | +1.6% |
| 2006 | 18,455 t | +1.4% |
| 2007 | 18,732 t | +1.5% |
| 2008 | 19,062 t | +1.8% |
| 2009 | 19,372 t | +1.6% |
| 2010 | 19,467 t | +0.5% |
| 2011 | 20,013 t | +2.8% |
| 2012 | 20,600 t | +2.9% |
| 2013 | 20,561 t | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 20,699 t | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 21,102 t | +1.9% |
| 2016 | 21,328 t | +1.1% |
| 2017 | 21,570 t | +1.1% |
| 2018 | 21,789 t | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 21,990 t | +0.9% |
| 2020 | 22,207 t | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 21,995 t | -1.0% |
| 2022 | 22,064 t | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 22,089 t | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 22,050 t | -0.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Dates — Production in Middle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | -27.8% | 24,855 t | 17,935 t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21,111 t | 18,000 t | 25,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 24,218 t | 22,000 t | 25,150 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 25,120 t | 25,030 t | 25,280 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 18,923 t | 17,935 t | 24,855 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 18,499 t | 17,686 t | 19,372 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,912 t | 19,467 t | 21,990 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 22,081 t | 21,995 t | 22,207 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
- 1 Saudi Arabia 1.93 million t compare
- 2 Egypt 1.75 million t compare
- 2 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1.18 million t compare
- 3 Algeria 1.34 million t compare
- 4 Pakistan 604,243 t compare
- 5 Iraq 587,190 t compare
- 5 Türkiye 10,000 t compare
- 6 Sudan 443,134 t compare
- 6 Syrian Arab Republic 1,575 t compare
- 7 Sudan (former) 432,100 t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Middle Africa
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual growth 8.33 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production, annual 3.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing -3.05 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual 2.25 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production, annual growth rate 5.35 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual growth 11.11 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered -6.26 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production, annual growth rate 3.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass 6.72 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is dates — production in Middle Africa?
- Dates — production in Middle Africa was 22,050 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest dates — production recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 25,280 t in 1982.
- What is the lowest dates — production recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 17,686 t in 2003.
- How does Middle Africa rank for dates — production?
- Middle Africa ranks 4th out of 6 groups with data for 2024.
- Is dates — production rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Middle Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Dates — 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.