Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Production in Senegal
Senegal: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Production was 1.68 million t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Production in Senegal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for groundnuts, excluding shelled — production in Senegal is 1.68 million t, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 151.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled — production in Senegal peaked at 1.80 million t in 2020 and was at its lowest, 260,723 t, in 2002.
Senegal ranks 7th of 113 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Production in Senegal, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1.02 million t | — |
| 1962 | 1.02 million t | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1.08 million t | +6.1% |
| 1964 | 1.02 million t | -6.0% |
| 1965 | 1.12 million t | +10.0% |
| 1966 | 1.00 million t | -10.8% |
| 1967 | 1.01 million t | +0.9% |
| 1968 | 836,800 t | -17.0% |
| 1969 | 796,100 t | -4.9% |
| 1970 | 589,950 t | -25.9% |
| 1971 | 997,120 t | +69.0% |
| 1972 | 586,900 t | -41.1% |
| 1973 | 692,779 t | +18.0% |
| 1974 | 980,200 t | +41.5% |
| 1975 | 1.44 million t | +47.3% |
| 1976 | 1.23 million t | -14.7% |
| 1977 | 518,956 t | -57.9% |
| 1978 | 1.06 million t | +104.5% |
| 1979 | 676,000 t | -36.3% |
| 1980 | 523,003 t | -22.6% |
| 1981 | 872,319 t | +66.8% |
| 1982 | 1.00 million t | +15.1% |
| 1983 | 549,000 t | -45.3% |
| 1984 | 503,770 t | -8.2% |
| 1985 | 601,246 t | +19.3% |
| 1986 | 842,564 t | +40.1% |
| 1987 | 963,123 t | +14.3% |
| 1988 | 722,898 t | -24.9% |
| 1989 | 844,225 t | +16.8% |
| 1990 | 702,584 t | -16.8% |
| 1991 | 724,416 t | +3.1% |
| 1992 | 578,498 t | -20.1% |
| 1993 | 627,633 t | +8.5% |
| 1994 | 678,040 t | +8.0% |
| 1995 | 790,617 t | +16.6% |
| 1996 | 646,394 t | -18.2% |
| 1997 | 544,825 t | -15.7% |
| 1998 | 579,067 t | +6.3% |
| 1999 | 1.01 million t | +75.2% |
| 2000 | 1.06 million t | +4.7% |
| 2001 | 887,356 t | -16.4% |
| 2002 | 260,723 t | -70.6% |
| 2003 | 440,709 t | +69.0% |
| 2004 | 602,621 t | +36.7% |
| 2005 | 703,373 t | +16.7% |
| 2006 | 460,481 t | -34.5% |
| 2007 | 331,195 t | -28.1% |
| 2008 | 731,210 t | +120.8% |
| 2009 | 1.03 million t | +41.2% |
| 2010 | 1.29 million t | +24.6% |
| 2011 | 527,528 t | -59.0% |
| 2012 | 692,572 t | +31.3% |
| 2013 | 677,456 t | -2.2% |
| 2014 | 669,329 t | -1.2% |
| 2015 | 1.05 million t | +56.9% |
| 2016 | 719,000 t | -31.5% |
| 2017 | 1.41 million t | +95.4% |
| 2018 | 1.50 million t | +6.8% |
| 2019 | 1.42 million t | -5.3% |
| 2020 | 1.80 million t | +26.5% |
| 2021 | 1.68 million t | -6.7% |
| 2022 | 1.50 million t | -10.5% |
| 2023 | 1.68 million t | +11.6% |
| 2024 | 1.68 million t | +0.4% |
Senegal compared with similar countries
- Senegal's 1.68 million t is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 25,362 t, 66.3× the median. (34 countries reporting)
- Senegal's 1.68 million t is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 94,522 t, 17.8× the median. (40 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 990,001 t | 796,100 t | 1.12 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 877,858 t | 518,956 t | 1.44 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 742,617 t | 503,770 t | 1.00 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 688,632 t | 544,825 t | 1.01 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 651,186 t | 260,723 t | 1.06 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 994,988 t | 527,528 t | 1.50 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.67 million t | 1.50 million t | 1.80 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Senegal
- 4 Nigeria 4.30 million t compare
- 4 United Republic of Tanzania 760,000 t compare
- 5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 508,245 t compare
- 5 Myanmar 1.72 million t compare
- 6 Sudan 1.68 million t compare
- 6 Viet Nam 397,250 t compare
- 7 Türkiye 246,796 t compare
- 8 Argentina 1.48 million t compare
- 9 Lao People's Democratic Republic 30,910 t compare
- 9 Sudan (former) 1.19 million t compare
- 10 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 26,526 t compare
- 10 Guinea 1.00 million t compare
More agriculture & rural data for Senegal
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 26.22 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1708 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 333.94 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.11 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4423 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 17.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 17.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled — production in Senegal?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled — production in Senegal was 1.68 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled — production recorded in Senegal?
- The highest recorded value was 1.80 million t in 2020.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled — production recorded in Senegal?
- The lowest recorded value was 260,723 t in 2002.
- How does Senegal rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled — production?
- Senegal ranks 7th out of 113 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled — production rising or falling in Senegal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 151.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Senegal data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Production. 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.