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 15th of 20 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.
Dates — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,586 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,600 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1963 | 3,667 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1964 | 3,733 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1965 | 3,562 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1966 | 3,625 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1967 | 3,688 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1968 | 3,636 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1969 | 3,697 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1970 | 3,697 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 3,758 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1972 | 3,758 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 3,818 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1974 | 3,818 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 3,818 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 3,721 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1977 | 3,872 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1978 | 3,756 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1979 | 3,774 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1980 | 3,811 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1981 | 3,811 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 3,811 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 3,887 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1984 | 3,796 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1985 | 3,862 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1986 | 3,898 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1987 | 3,934 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1988 | 4,007 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1989 | 4,044 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1990 | 3,810 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1991 | 3,639 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1992 | 3,656 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1993 | 3,716 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1994 | 3,769 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1995 | 3,816 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1996 | 3,829 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 3,867 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1998 | 3,910 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1999 | 3,952 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 4,012 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2001 | 4,077 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2002 | 4,099 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 4,174 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2004 | 4,128 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2005 | 4,005 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2006 | 4,220 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2007 | 4,291 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2008 | 4,341 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2009 | 4,383 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2010 | 4,417 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2011 | 4,448 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 4,532 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2013 | 4,518 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2014 | 4,547 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 4,608 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2016 | 4,647 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 4,676 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2018 | 4,716 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2019 | 4,759 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2020 | 4,644 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2021 | 4,659 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 4,666 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 4,634 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2024 | 4,630 kg/ha | -0.1% |
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 |
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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 15th out of 20 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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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.