Dates — Yield in Tunisia
Tunisia: Dates — Yield was 4,897 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Dates — Yield in Tunisia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for dates — yield in Tunisia is 4,897 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.3% on the previous year and up 19.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, dates — yield in Tunisia peaked at 4,897 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 2,342 kg/ha, in 1995.
Tunisia ranks 23rd of 37 countries 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 Tunisia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,630 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,524 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1963 | 3,529 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1964 | 3,500 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1965 | 3,484 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1966 | 3,525 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1967 | 3,573 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1968 | 3,500 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1969 | 3,491 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1970 | 3,714 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1971 | 3,714 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 4,000 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1973 | 3,636 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1974 | 3,304 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1975 | 3,750 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 1976 | 2,824 kg/ha | -24.7% |
| 1977 | 3,353 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 1978 | 2,982 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 1979 | 2,583 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1980 | 3,222 kg/ha | +24.8% |
| 1981 | 2,778 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 1982 | 2,500 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1983 | 4,208 kg/ha | +68.3% |
| 1984 | 3,263 kg/ha | -22.4% |
| 1985 | 3,737 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 1986 | 4,474 kg/ha | +19.7% |
| 1987 | 3,450 kg/ha | -22.9% |
| 1988 | 3,500 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1989 | 3,740 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1990 | 3,867 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1991 | 3,409 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1992 | 3,370 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1993 | 3,289 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1994 | 2,643 kg/ha | -19.6% |
| 1995 | 2,342 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1996 | 2,510 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1997 | 3,518 kg/ha | +40.2% |
| 1998 | 3,433 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1999 | 3,323 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2000 | 3,322 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2001 | 2,626 kg/ha | -20.9% |
| 2002 | 2,875 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 2003 | 2,775 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2004 | 3,050 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2005 | 2,827 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 2006 | 3,216 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 2007 | 3,113 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2008 | 3,690 kg/ha | +18.5% |
| 2009 | 3,529 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2010 | 3,606 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2011 | 3,726 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2012 | 3,881 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2013 | 4,305 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 2014 | 4,086 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2015 | 4,537 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 2016 | 3,935 kg/ha | -13.3% |
| 2017 | 4,276 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 2018 | 4,656 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2019 | 4,658 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 4,651 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 4,671 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 4,767 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2023 | 4,832 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2024 | 4,897 kg/ha | +1.3% |
Tunisia compared with similar countries
- Tunisia's 4,897 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,861 kg/ha, 1.7× the median. (12 countries reporting)
- Tunisia's 4,897 kg/ha is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 7,369 kg/ha, 66% of the median. (18 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Dates — Yield in Tunisia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | +68.3% | 2,500 kg/ha | 4,208 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,528 kg/ha | 3,484 kg/ha | 3,630 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,386 kg/ha | 2,583 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,487 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 4,474 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,170 kg/ha | 2,342 kg/ha | 3,867 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,102 kg/ha | 2,626 kg/ha | 3,690 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,167 kg/ha | 3,606 kg/ha | 4,658 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,764 kg/ha | 4,651 kg/ha | 4,897 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Tunisia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 18.22 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1029 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 479.33 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.5867 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.293 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 10.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 10.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is dates — yield in Tunisia?
- Dates — yield in Tunisia was 4,897 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest dates — yield recorded in Tunisia?
- The highest recorded value was 4,897 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest dates — yield recorded in Tunisia?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,342 kg/ha in 1995.
- How does Tunisia rank for dates — yield?
- Tunisia ranks 23rd out of 37 countries with data for 2024.
- Is dates — yield rising or falling in Tunisia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Tunisia 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.