Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight in Ghana
Ghana: Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight was 129 kg/An in 2024. ▲ Rising
Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight in Ghana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/An.
Analysis
In 2024, milk, total — yield/carcass weight in Ghana stood at 129 kg/An. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.8% on the previous year and down 6.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, milk, total — yield/carcass weight in Ghana peaked at 151 kg/An in 1992 and was at its lowest, 129 kg/An, in 2024.
That places Ghana 175th out of 199 countries 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 130 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 9 |
| 1970s | 130 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 10 |
| 1980s | 130 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 10 |
| 1990s | 145 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 151 kg/An | 10 |
| 2000s | 138.3 kg/An | 130 kg/An | 142 kg/An | 10 |
| 2010s | 136.7 kg/An | 134 kg/An | 141 kg/An | 10 |
| 2020s | 130.2 kg/An | 129 kg/An | 131 kg/An | 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 milk, total — yield/carcass weight in Ghana?
- Milk, total — yield/carcass weight in Ghana was 129 kg/An in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest milk, total — yield/carcass weight recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 151 kg/An in 1992.
- What is the lowest milk, total — yield/carcass weight recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 129 kg/An in 2024.
- How does Ghana rank for milk, total — yield/carcass weight?
- Ghana ranks 175th out of 199 countries with data for 2024.
- Is milk, total — yield/carcass weight rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 6.5%. 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 Milk, Total — Yield/Carcass Weight. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.