Fruit Primary — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Fruit Primary — Yield was 23,021 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Fruit Primary — Yield in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, fruit primary — yield in Southern Africa stood at 23,021 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.7% on the previous year and up 9.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fruit primary — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 23,021 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 10,209 kg/ha, in 1961.
Southern Africa ranks 2nd of 33 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,912 kg/ha | 10,209 kg/ha | 11,686 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 11,373 kg/ha | 10,383 kg/ha | 11,949 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,288 kg/ha | 12,620 kg/ha | 15,760 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 15,465 kg/ha | 14,787 kg/ha | 16,876 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 18,265 kg/ha | 15,823 kg/ha | 19,869 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 21,117 kg/ha | 19,815 kg/ha | 22,532 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 22,504 kg/ha | 21,853 kg/ha | 23,021 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
- 1 Guyana 38,100 kg/ha compare
- 2 Belgium-Luxembourg 37,654 kg/ha compare
- 3 Costa Rica 34,518 kg/ha compare
- 4 Zimbabwe 33,576 kg/ha compare
- 5 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 33,139 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Southern Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 3.93 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 11,906 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 461,288 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 528,091 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 11,393 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 53,939 kg/ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 1.50 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 4,427 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 374,875 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 95 kg/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is fruit primary — yield in Southern Africa?
- Fruit primary — yield in Southern Africa was 23,021 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest fruit primary — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 23,021 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest fruit primary — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,209 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Southern Africa rank for fruit primary — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 2nd out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is fruit primary — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern Africa 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.