Fruit Primary — Yield in Lesotho
Lesotho: Fruit Primary — Yield was 3,557 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Fruit Primary — Yield in Lesotho, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for fruit primary — yield in Lesotho is 3,557 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and down 7.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fruit primary — yield in Lesotho peaked at 5,902 kg/ha in 1983 and was at its lowest, 3,442 kg/ha, in 2019.
Lesotho ranks 193rd of 207 countries on this measure, 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 | 4,533 kg/ha | 4,444 kg/ha | 4,643 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,233 kg/ha | 4,667 kg/ha | 5,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,631 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,902 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,939 kg/ha | 4,781 kg/ha | 5,797 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,688 kg/ha | 4,485 kg/ha | 4,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,796 kg/ha | 3,442 kg/ha | 4,317 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,526 kg/ha | 3,465 kg/ha | 3,561 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Lesotho
- Agriculture share gdp 6.49 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 55.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 1.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 166.92 million current US$ (2025)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 35,490 An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is fruit primary — yield in Lesotho?
- Fruit primary — yield in Lesotho was 3,557 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest fruit primary — yield recorded in Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 5,902 kg/ha in 1983.
- What is the lowest fruit primary — yield recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,442 kg/ha in 2019.
- How does Lesotho rank for fruit primary — yield?
- Lesotho ranks 193rd out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is fruit primary — yield rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Lesotho data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Fruit Primary — 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.