Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Lettuce and chicory — Yield was 11,004 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 11,004 kg/ha for lettuce and chicory — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 8.8% on the previous year and down 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, lettuce and chicory — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 13,851 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 3,778 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Eastern Africa 26th out of 28 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.
Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,778 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,493 kg/ha | +18.9% |
| 1963 | 4,662 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1964 | 4,322 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1965 | 5,232 kg/ha | +21.0% |
| 1966 | 5,455 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1967 | 5,285 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1968 | 5,619 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1969 | 6,221 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1970 | 5,700 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 1971 | 5,247 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1972 | 6,058 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 1973 | 5,618 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1974 | 7,193 kg/ha | +28.0% |
| 1975 | 6,132 kg/ha | -14.7% |
| 1976 | 6,583 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1977 | 7,750 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 1978 | 7,279 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1979 | 6,032 kg/ha | -17.1% |
| 1980 | 5,705 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1981 | 5,547 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1982 | 5,496 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1983 | 6,568 kg/ha | +19.5% |
| 1984 | 6,429 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1985 | 7,418 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 1986 | 8,703 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 1987 | 9,547 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1988 | 10,678 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 1989 | 10,023 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1990 | 10,476 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1991 | 10,850 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1992 | 10,545 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1993 | 11,329 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1994 | 10,236 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 1995 | 8,581 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 1996 | 9,141 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1997 | 9,295 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1998 | 10,233 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1999 | 10,383 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2000 | 10,388 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 10,801 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2002 | 10,374 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2003 | 9,875 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2004 | 10,706 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2005 | 9,891 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2006 | 9,418 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2007 | 7,313 kg/ha | -22.4% |
| 2008 | 7,694 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2009 | 7,590 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2010 | 7,341 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2011 | 8,084 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2012 | 4,585 kg/ha | -43.3% |
| 2013 | 4,548 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2014 | 11,309 kg/ha | +148.6% |
| 2015 | 9,057 kg/ha | -19.9% |
| 2016 | 8,884 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2017 | 13,851 kg/ha | +55.9% |
| 2018 | 12,133 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 2019 | 8,852 kg/ha | -27.0% |
| 2020 | 10,936 kg/ha | +23.5% |
| 2021 | 6,107 kg/ha | -44.2% |
| 2022 | 8,591 kg/ha | +40.7% |
| 2023 | 10,112 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 2024 | 11,004 kg/ha | +8.8% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Eastern Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | +148.6% | 4,548 kg/ha | 11,309 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,007 kg/ha | 3,778 kg/ha | 6,221 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,359 kg/ha | 5,247 kg/ha | 7,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,611 kg/ha | 5,496 kg/ha | 10,678 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,107 kg/ha | 8,581 kg/ha | 11,329 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,405 kg/ha | 7,313 kg/ha | 10,801 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,864 kg/ha | 4,548 kg/ha | 13,851 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 9,350 kg/ha | 6,107 kg/ha | 11,004 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 23 Luxembourg 24,750 kg/ha compare
- 24 Portugal 24,612 kg/ha compare
- 25 Singapore 24,451 kg/ha compare
- 26 Colombia 23,780 kg/ha compare
- 27 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 23,732 kg/ha compare
- 27 Caribbean 8,966 kg/ha compare
- 28 Mexico 23,564 kg/ha compare
- 29 Niger 23,169 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is lettuce and chicory — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Lettuce and chicory — yield in Eastern Africa was 11,004 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 13,851 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,778 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for lettuce and chicory — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 26th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is lettuce and chicory — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Lettuce and chicory — 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.