Dates — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Dates — Yield was 2,256 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Dates — Yield in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, dates — yield in Kenya stood at 2,256 kg/ha.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and down 6.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, dates — yield in Kenya peaked at 3,429 kg/ha in 1995 and was at its lowest, 2,177 kg/ha, in 2020.
That places Kenya 38th out of 40 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,993 kg/ha | 2,800 kg/ha | 3,333 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,846 kg/ha | 2,800 kg/ha | 3,143 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,059 kg/ha | 2,899 kg/ha | 3,188 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,201 kg/ha | 2,318 kg/ha | 3,429 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,838 kg/ha | 2,630 kg/ha | 3,030 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,394 kg/ha | 2,215 kg/ha | 2,582 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,232 kg/ha | 2,177 kg/ha | 2,256 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 67.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 39.00 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.06 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is dates — yield in Kenya?
- Dates — yield in Kenya was 2,256 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest dates — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 3,429 kg/ha in 1995.
- What is the lowest dates — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,177 kg/ha in 2020.
- How does Kenya rank for dates — yield?
- Kenya ranks 38th out of 40 countries with data for 2024.
- Is dates — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is down 6.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Kenya 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.