Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield in Tonga
Tonga: Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield was 597.2 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield in Tonga, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Tonga recorded 597.2 kg/ha for groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.0% on the previous year and down 3.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Tonga peaked at 1,397 kg/ha in 1990 and was at its lowest, 525.7 kg/ha, in 1991.
That places Tonga 101st out of 112 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield in Tonga, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 937.5 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 951.2 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1963 | 963.9 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1964 | 976.5 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1965 | 1,023 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1966 | 1,011 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1967 | 1,056 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1968 | 1,044 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1969 | 1,032 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1970 | 1,032 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1971 | 1,042 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1972 | 1,031 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1973 | 1,020 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1974 | 1,000 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1975 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,091 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1977 | 1,087 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1978 | 1,083 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1979 | 1,080 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1980 | 1,077 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1981 | 1,058 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1982 | 1,000 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1983 | 1,154 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 1984 | 1,250 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1985 | 1,250 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 1,250 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 1,214 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1988 | 1,143 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1989 | 1,214 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1990 | 1,397 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 1991 | 525.7 kg/ha | -62.4% |
| 1992 | 528.4 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1993 | 528.3 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1994 | 529.5 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1995 | 533.3 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1996 | 532.1 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1997 | 535.3 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1998 | 538.4 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1999 | 541.5 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2000 | 544.5 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2001 | 547.4 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2002 | 550.2 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 552.9 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2004 | 555.4 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 557.6 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 559.7 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2007 | 548.4 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2008 | 563.2 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2009 | 564.8 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2010 | 566.9 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2011 | 569.6 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 550 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2013 | 650 kg/ha | +18.2% |
| 2014 | 618.2 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2015 | 597.5 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2016 | 622.3 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2017 | 615.5 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2018 | 615.5 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 618.8 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 573.4 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 2021 | 602.4 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2022 | 598 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2023 | 591.2 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2024 | 597.2 kg/ha | +1.0% |
Tonga compared with similar countries
- Tonga's 597.2 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1,566 kg/ha, 38% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
- Tonga's 597.2 kg/ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 1,400 kg/ha, 43% of the median. (13 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Groundnuts, excluding shelled — Yield in Tonga changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | -62.4% | 1,397 kg/ha | 525.7 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 999.33 kg/ha | 937.5 kg/ha | 1,056 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,047 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,091 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,161 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,250 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 618.99 kg/ha | 525.7 kg/ha | 1,397 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 554.41 kg/ha | 544.5 kg/ha | 564.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 602.43 kg/ha | 550 kg/ha | 650 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 592.44 kg/ha | 573.4 kg/ha | 602.4 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Tonga
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1857 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,154 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.4224 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.7884 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 18.6% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 18.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.7% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Tonga?
- Groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield in Tonga was 597.2 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield recorded in Tonga?
- The highest recorded value was 1,397 kg/ha in 1990.
- What is the lowest groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield recorded in Tonga?
- The lowest recorded value was 525.7 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Tonga rank for groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield?
- Tonga ranks 101st out of 112 countries with data for 2024.
- Is groundnuts, excluding shelled — yield rising or falling in Tonga?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Tonga 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.