Dates — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Dates — Yield was 4,630 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Dates — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for dates — yield in Eastern Africa is 4,630 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, dates — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 4,759 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 3,562 kg/ha, in 1965.
Eastern Africa ranks 17th of 23 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,644 kg/ha | 3,562 kg/ha | 3,733 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,779 kg/ha | 3,697 kg/ha | 3,872 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,886 kg/ha | 3,796 kg/ha | 4,044 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,796 kg/ha | 3,639 kg/ha | 3,952 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,173 kg/ha | 4,005 kg/ha | 4,383 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,587 kg/ha | 4,417 kg/ha | 4,759 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,647 kg/ha | 4,630 kg/ha | 4,666 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Eastern Africa
- Fat of pigs — Production 63,544 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.08 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 641,088 t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 12.53 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 546,014 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 3.49 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 16,968 kg/ha (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 23.97 million An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 23.97 million An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 29.04 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is dates — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Dates — yield in Eastern Africa was 4,630 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest dates — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 4,759 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest dates — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,562 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for dates — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 17th out of 23 groups with data for 2024.
- Is dates — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Dates — 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.