Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield in Ghana
Ghana: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield was 1,689 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield in Ghana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Ghana recorded 1,689 kg/ha for groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 1.7% on the previous year and up 32.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Ghana peaked at 1,839 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 670 kg/ha, in 1991.
That places Ghana 48th out of 124 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 872.1 kg/ha | 770.5 kg/ha | 1,187 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,167 kg/ha | 952.9 kg/ha | 1,608 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,242 kg/ha | 955.9 kg/ha | 1,755 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 898.15 kg/ha | 670 kg/ha | 1,093 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,095 kg/ha | 883.3 kg/ha | 1,536 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,379 kg/ha | 1,240 kg/ha | 1,671 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,715 kg/ha | 1,651 kg/ha | 1,839 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture share gdp 21.28 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.28 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
- Rural population 41.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 14.40 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 24.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 135,063 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Ghana?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Ghana was 1,689 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 1,839 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 670 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Ghana rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield?
- Ghana ranks 48th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 32.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Groundnuts, excluding shelled — 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.