Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Algeria
Algeria: Locust beans (carobs) — Yield was 4,850 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Algeria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, locust beans (carobs) — yield in Algeria stood at 4,850 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 0.8% on the previous year and up 4.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, locust beans (carobs) — yield in Algeria peaked at 5,766 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 1,564 kg/ha, in 1992.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Algeria, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,177 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,222 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1963 | 2,222 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 2,200 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1965 | 2,236 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1966 | 2,200 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1967 | 2,205 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1968 | 2,205 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 2,224 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1970 | 2,204 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1971 | 2,208 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1972 | 2,202 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1973 | 2,192 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1974 | 2,220 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1975 | 2,243 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1976 | 2,016 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1977 | 2,018 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1978 | 2,009 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1979 | 2,009 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1980 | 2,156 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1981 | 1,992 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1982 | 2,000 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1983 | 2,188 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1984 | 2,074 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1985 | 2,056 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1986 | 2,001 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1987 | 1,984 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1988 | 1,969 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1989 | 2,088 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1990 | 1,880 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1991 | 3,058 kg/ha | +62.7% |
| 1992 | 1,564 kg/ha | -48.9% |
| 1993 | 2,313 kg/ha | +47.9% |
| 1994 | 1,776 kg/ha | -23.2% |
| 1995 | 2,327 kg/ha | +31.0% |
| 1996 | 2,518 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1997 | 1,890 kg/ha | -24.9% |
| 1998 | 2,965 kg/ha | +56.9% |
| 1999 | 3,335 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2000 | 3,266 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2001 | 4,000 kg/ha | +22.5% |
| 2002 | 3,959 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2003 | 3,409 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 2004 | 3,932 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 2005 | 2,866 kg/ha | -27.1% |
| 2006 | 3,610 kg/ha | +26.0% |
| 2007 | 4,212 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 2008 | 3,530 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 2009 | 3,674 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2010 | 3,233 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 2011 | 3,435 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2012 | 3,774 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2013 | 3,756 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2014 | 4,638 kg/ha | +23.5% |
| 2015 | 5,766 kg/ha | +24.3% |
| 2016 | 4,002 kg/ha | -30.6% |
| 2017 | 4,886 kg/ha | +22.1% |
| 2018 | 3,651 kg/ha | -25.3% |
| 2019 | 4,817 kg/ha | +31.9% |
| 2020 | 4,499 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2021 | 4,679 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2022 | 4,783 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2023 | 4,888 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2024 | 4,850 kg/ha | -0.8% |
Algeria compared with similar countries
- Algeria's 4,850 kg/ha is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 2,058 kg/ha, 2.4× the median. (6 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Locust beans (carobs) — Yield in Algeria 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 | +62.7% | 1,880 kg/ha | 3,058 kg/ha |
| 1998 | +56.9% | 1,890 kg/ha | 2,965 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,210 kg/ha | 2,177 kg/ha | 2,236 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,132 kg/ha | 2,009 kg/ha | 2,243 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,051 kg/ha | 1,969 kg/ha | 2,188 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,363 kg/ha | 1,564 kg/ha | 3,335 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,646 kg/ha | 2,866 kg/ha | 4,212 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,196 kg/ha | 3,233 kg/ha | 5,766 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,740 kg/ha | 4,499 kg/ha | 4,888 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Algeria
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1451 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 878.12 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.884 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2418 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 14.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 14.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2017)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.1% (2017)
Frequently asked questions
- What is locust beans (carobs) — yield in Algeria?
- Locust beans (carobs) — yield in Algeria was 4,850 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest locust beans (carobs) — yield recorded in Algeria?
- The highest recorded value was 5,766 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest locust beans (carobs) — yield recorded in Algeria?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,564 kg/ha in 1992.
- How does Algeria rank for locust beans (carobs) — yield?
- Algeria ranks 5th out of 14 countries with data for 2024.
- Is locust beans (carobs) — yield rising or falling in Algeria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Algeria data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Locust beans (carobs) — 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.