Millet — Yield in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau: Millet — Yield was 1,133 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Millet — Yield in Guinea-Bissau, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Guinea-Bissau recorded 1,133 kg/ha for millet — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 9.7% on the previous year and down 9.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, millet — yield in Guinea-Bissau peaked at 1,906 kg/ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 323.4 kg/ha, in 1997.
Guinea-Bissau ranks 41st of 86 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Millet — Yield in Guinea-Bissau, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 666.7 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 666.7 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 666.7 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 666.7 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 722.2 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1966 | 625 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 1967 | 641.7 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1968 | 590.9 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1969 | 545.5 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1970 | 545.5 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 500 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1972 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 583.3 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1974 | 500 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1975 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 538.5 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1977 | 615.4 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1978 | 500 kg/ha | -18.8% |
| 1979 | 666.7 kg/ha | +33.3% |
| 1980 | 722.2 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1981 | 700 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1982 | 650 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1983 | 650.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 800 kg/ha | +23.0% |
| 1985 | 900 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1986 | 913.6 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1987 | 1,000 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1988 | 1,483 kg/ha | +48.3% |
| 1989 | 936.8 kg/ha | -36.8% |
| 1990 | 867.8 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 1991 | 1,215 kg/ha | +40.1% |
| 1992 | 862.8 kg/ha | -29.0% |
| 1993 | 859 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1994 | 769.6 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 1995 | 911 kg/ha | +18.4% |
| 1996 | 856.2 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1997 | 323.4 kg/ha | -62.2% |
| 1998 | 796.3 kg/ha | +146.2% |
| 1999 | 856.9 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2000 | 753.4 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 2001 | 832.4 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 2002 | 651.7 kg/ha | -21.7% |
| 2003 | 755.6 kg/ha | +15.9% |
| 2004 | 1,136 kg/ha | +50.4% |
| 2005 | 1,888 kg/ha | +66.2% |
| 2006 | 1,906 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2007 | 840.4 kg/ha | -55.9% |
| 2008 | 1,062 kg/ha | +26.4% |
| 2009 | 1,208 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 2010 | 1,226 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2011 | 1,210 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2012 | 1,241 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2013 | 1,268 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2014 | 1,256 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2015 | 1,238 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2016 | 1,243 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 1,229 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2018 | 1,200 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2019 | 819 kg/ha | -31.8% |
| 2020 | 815 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2021 | 816 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 960.1 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 2023 | 1,033 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2024 | 1,133 kg/ha | +9.7% |
Guinea-Bissau compared with similar countries
- Guinea-Bissau's 1,133 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 848.5 kg/ha, 1.3× the median. (19 countries reporting)
- Guinea-Bissau's 1,133 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 815.8 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (33 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Millet — Yield in Guinea-Bissau 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | +146.2% | 323.4 kg/ha | 796.3 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 643.57 kg/ha | 545.5 kg/ha | 722.2 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 544.94 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 666.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 875.58 kg/ha | 650 kg/ha | 1,483 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 831.84 kg/ha | 323.4 kg/ha | 1,215 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,103 kg/ha | 651.7 kg/ha | 1,906 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,193 kg/ha | 819 kg/ha | 1,268 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 951.54 kg/ha | 815 kg/ha | 1,133 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guinea-Bissau
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 13.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.4063 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 456.57 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.17 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5335 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 40.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 40.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 31.5% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is millet — yield in Guinea-Bissau?
- Millet — yield in Guinea-Bissau was 1,133 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest millet — yield recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The highest recorded value was 1,906 kg/ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest millet — yield recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The lowest recorded value was 323.4 kg/ha in 1997.
- How does Guinea-Bissau rank for millet — yield?
- Guinea-Bissau ranks 41st out of 86 countries with data for 2024.
- Is millet — yield rising or falling in Guinea-Bissau?
- Over the last ten years it is down 9.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea-Bissau 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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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.