Millet — Yield in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Millet — Yield was 848.5 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Millet — Yield in Burkina Faso, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Burkina Faso recorded 848.5 kg/ha for millet — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 5.1% on the previous year and up 4.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, millet — yield in Burkina Faso peaked at 960.3 kg/ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 316.8 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Burkina Faso 68th out of 93 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 | 421.29 kg/ha | 316.8 kg/ha | 600.5 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 418.46 kg/ha | 350.9 kg/ha | 492.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 525.99 kg/ha | 421.5 kg/ha | 639.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 663.54 kg/ha | 439.3 kg/ha | 782.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 799.55 kg/ha | 637.3 kg/ha | 960.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 797.61 kg/ha | 677.5 kg/ha | 853.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 846.64 kg/ha | 722.4 kg/ha | 898.2 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Burkina Faso
- Agriculture share gdp 19.94 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 19.94 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 6.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2024)
- Rural population 71.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 17.11 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 19.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.51 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 46,922 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is millet — yield in Burkina Faso?
- Millet — yield in Burkina Faso was 848.5 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest millet — yield recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The highest recorded value was 960.3 kg/ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest millet — yield recorded in Burkina Faso?
- The lowest recorded value was 316.8 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Burkina Faso rank for millet — yield?
- Burkina Faso ranks 68th out of 93 countries with data for 2024.
- Is millet — yield rising or falling in Burkina Faso?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Burkina Faso data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Millet — Yield. 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.