Fruit Primary — Yield in Western Africa
Western Africa: Fruit Primary — Yield was 7,426 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Fruit Primary — Yield in Western Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Western Africa recorded 7,426 kg/ha for fruit primary — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.5% on the previous year and up 13.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fruit primary — yield in Western Africa peaked at 7,622 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 4,113 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Western Africa 27th out of 29 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Fruit Primary — Yield in Western Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,126 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,113 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1963 | 4,168 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1964 | 4,150 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1965 | 4,213 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1966 | 4,264 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1967 | 4,308 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1968 | 4,356 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1969 | 4,388 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1970 | 4,430 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1971 | 4,464 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1972 | 4,454 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1973 | 4,494 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1974 | 4,502 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1975 | 4,667 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1976 | 4,702 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1977 | 4,592 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1978 | 4,697 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1979 | 4,799 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1980 | 4,933 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1981 | 4,972 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1982 | 4,862 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1983 | 5,036 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1984 | 5,101 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1985 | 4,901 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1986 | 4,970 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1987 | 5,032 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1988 | 4,974 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1989 | 5,142 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1990 | 5,173 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1991 | 5,276 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1992 | 5,311 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1993 | 5,478 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1994 | 5,464 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1995 | 5,504 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1996 | 5,657 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1997 | 5,710 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1998 | 5,639 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1999 | 5,439 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2000 | 5,387 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2001 | 5,389 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 5,487 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2003 | 5,585 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2004 | 5,641 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2005 | 5,849 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2006 | 5,866 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 6,048 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2008 | 6,136 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2009 | 6,396 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2010 | 6,408 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 6,436 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 6,508 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 6,627 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2014 | 6,530 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2015 | 6,676 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2016 | 6,846 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2017 | 6,914 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2018 | 7,106 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2019 | 7,141 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 7,291 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2021 | 7,622 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2022 | 7,433 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2023 | 7,319 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2024 | 7,426 kg/ha | +1.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,232 kg/ha | 4,113 kg/ha | 4,388 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,580 kg/ha | 4,430 kg/ha | 4,799 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,992 kg/ha | 4,862 kg/ha | 5,142 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,465 kg/ha | 5,173 kg/ha | 5,710 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,778 kg/ha | 5,387 kg/ha | 6,396 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,719 kg/ha | 6,408 kg/ha | 7,141 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,418 kg/ha | 7,291 kg/ha | 7,622 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Africa
- 24 Greece 19,213 kg/ha compare
- 25 Turkmenistan 19,124 kg/ha compare
- 26 Kazakhstan 18,987 kg/ha compare
- 27 Switzerland 18,392 kg/ha compare
- 28 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 18,324 kg/ha compare
- 29 Côte d'Ivoire 3,168 kg/ha compare
- 29 Ethiopia PDR 18,209 kg/ha compare
- 30 China, Taiwan Province of 17,741 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Western Africa
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- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 2.75 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.9 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 3.8 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -7.53 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 5.56 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is fruit primary — yield in Western Africa?
- Fruit primary — yield in Western Africa was 7,426 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest fruit primary — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 7,622 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest fruit primary — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,113 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Western Africa rank for fruit primary — yield?
- Western Africa ranks 27th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is fruit primary — yield rising or falling in Western Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western 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.