Dates — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Dates — Yield was 7,234 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Dates — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, dates — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) stood at 7,234 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, dates — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 7,511 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 3,754 kg/ha, in 1990.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Dates — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,269 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,340 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1963 | 5,126 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1964 | 4,950 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1965 | 4,945 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1966 | 5,228 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1967 | 5,084 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1968 | 5,115 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1969 | 5,156 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1970 | 5,036 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1971 | 5,081 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1972 | 4,892 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1973 | 5,470 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 1974 | 5,194 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1975 | 5,306 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1976 | 5,727 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1977 | 5,675 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1978 | 5,580 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1979 | 5,829 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1980 | 5,927 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1981 | 5,928 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 5,462 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1983 | 5,422 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1984 | 5,226 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1985 | 4,345 kg/ha | -16.9% |
| 1986 | 4,506 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1987 | 4,530 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1988 | 4,466 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1989 | 4,239 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1990 | 3,754 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1991 | 4,312 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 1992 | 4,353 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1993 | 4,045 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1994 | 4,044 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1995 | 4,268 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1996 | 4,313 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1997 | 4,458 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1998 | 4,974 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 1999 | 4,948 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2000 | 5,583 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 2001 | 5,324 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2002 | 5,345 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2003 | 5,304 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2004 | 6,146 kg/ha | +15.9% |
| 2005 | 6,133 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2006 | 6,382 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2007 | 6,297 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2008 | 6,169 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2009 | 6,765 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 2010 | 6,713 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 7,151 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2012 | 7,189 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 7,209 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 7,270 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2015 | 7,082 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2016 | 7,118 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 7,190 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2018 | 6,742 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2019 | 7,216 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 2020 | 7,511 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2021 | 7,452 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2022 | 7,238 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2023 | 7,231 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 7,234 kg/ha | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,135 kg/ha | 4,945 kg/ha | 5,340 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,379 kg/ha | 4,892 kg/ha | 5,829 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,005 kg/ha | 4,239 kg/ha | 5,928 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,347 kg/ha | 3,754 kg/ha | 4,974 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,945 kg/ha | 5,304 kg/ha | 6,765 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,088 kg/ha | 6,713 kg/ha | 7,270 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,333 kg/ha | 7,231 kg/ha | 7,511 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is dates — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Dates — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 7,234 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest dates — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 7,511 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest dates — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,754 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for dates — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 2nd out of 6 groups with data for 2024.
- Is dates — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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.