Dates — Yield in Yemen
Yemen: Dates — Yield was 4,356 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Dates — Yield in Yemen, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, dates — yield in Yemen stood at 4,356 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 19.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, dates — yield in Yemen peaked at 4,479 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 1,226 kg/ha, in 1980.
That places Yemen 24th out of 37 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Dates — Yield in Yemen, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,644 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,663 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1963 | 3,998 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1964 | 4,018 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1965 | 4,037 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1966 | 4,120 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1967 | 3,617 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 1968 | 3,406 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1969 | 3,228 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1970 | 2,871 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1971 | 2,661 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1972 | 2,432 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1973 | 2,137 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 1974 | 1,880 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 1975 | 1,829 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1976 | 2,048 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 1977 | 2,307 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 1978 | 1,300 kg/ha | -43.7% |
| 1979 | 1,294 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1980 | 1,226 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1981 | 1,328 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1982 | 1,368 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1983 | 1,378 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1984 | 1,590 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 1985 | 1,806 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1986 | 1,992 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 1987 | 1,928 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1988 | 2,041 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1989 | 1,511 kg/ha | -26.0% |
| 1990 | 1,352 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 1991 | 1,332 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1992 | 1,330 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1993 | 1,327 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1994 | 1,240 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1995 | 1,244 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1996 | 1,248 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 1,301 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1998 | 1,304 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1999 | 1,287 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2000 | 1,311 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2001 | 1,366 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2002 | 1,385 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2003 | 1,412 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2004 | 2,080 kg/ha | +47.4% |
| 2005 | 2,177 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2006 | 3,637 kg/ha | +67.0% |
| 2007 | 3,780 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2008 | 3,816 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2009 | 3,844 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2010 | 3,868 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2011 | 3,770 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2012 | 3,738 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2013 | 3,692 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2014 | 3,636 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2015 | 3,532 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2016 | 3,479 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2017 | 3,478 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2018 | 3,367 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2019 | 4,360 kg/ha | +29.5% |
| 2020 | 4,360 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2021 | 4,479 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2022 | 4,354 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2023 | 4,348 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 4,356 kg/ha | +0.2% |
Yemen compared with similar countries
- Yemen's 4,356 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 4,720 kg/ha, 92% of the median. (6 countries reporting)
- Yemen's 4,356 kg/ha is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 7,369 kg/ha, 59% of the median. (18 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Dates — Yield in Yemen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | +67.0% | 2,177 kg/ha | 3,637 kg/ha |
| 2004 | +47.4% | 1,412 kg/ha | 2,080 kg/ha |
| 1978 | -43.7% | 2,307 kg/ha | 1,300 kg/ha |
| 2019 | +29.5% | 3,367 kg/ha | 4,360 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,748 kg/ha | 3,228 kg/ha | 4,120 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,076 kg/ha | 1,294 kg/ha | 2,871 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,617 kg/ha | 1,226 kg/ha | 2,041 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,296 kg/ha | 1,240 kg/ha | 1,352 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,481 kg/ha | 1,311 kg/ha | 3,844 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,692 kg/ha | 3,367 kg/ha | 4,360 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,379 kg/ha | 4,348 kg/ha | 4,479 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Yemen
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -14.18 % change on previous year (2018)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2875 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2018)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 182.21 current US$ per person (2018)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.57 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.001 units per US$ of GDP (2018)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6297 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 28.7% (2018)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 28.7% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2019)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (2019)
Frequently asked questions
- What is dates — yield in Yemen?
- Dates — yield in Yemen was 4,356 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest dates — yield recorded in Yemen?
- The highest recorded value was 4,479 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest dates — yield recorded in Yemen?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,226 kg/ha in 1980.
- How does Yemen rank for dates — yield?
- Yemen ranks 24th out of 37 countries with data for 2024.
- Is dates — yield rising or falling in Yemen?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Yemen 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.