Millet — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Millet — Yield was 68.1 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Millet — Yield in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, millet — yield in Southern Africa stood at 68.1 kg/ha. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 34.5% on the previous year and down 35.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, millet — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 433.3 kg/ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 68.1 kg/ha, in 2024.
That places Southern Africa 26th out of 26 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Millet — Yield in Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 361.8 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 345.4 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1963 | 308.3 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 1964 | 293 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1965 | 297 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1966 | 292.3 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1967 | 297 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1968 | 334.6 kg/ha | +12.7% |
| 1969 | 328.7 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1970 | 275 kg/ha | -16.3% |
| 1971 | 280.5 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1972 | 278.9 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1973 | 282.8 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1974 | 299.4 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1975 | 302.5 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1976 | 299.4 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1977 | 299.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 296.4 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1979 | 294.1 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1980 | 295 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1981 | 297 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1982 | 307.8 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1983 | 310.9 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1984 | 320.1 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1985 | 329.4 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1986 | 336.6 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1987 | 368.3 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1988 | 385.7 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1989 | 387.8 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1990 | 375.1 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1991 | 365.1 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1992 | 143.3 kg/ha | -60.8% |
| 1993 | 286.4 kg/ha | +99.9% |
| 1994 | 253.8 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1995 | 170.5 kg/ha | -32.8% |
| 1996 | 243.9 kg/ha | +43.0% |
| 1997 | 327.3 kg/ha | +34.2% |
| 1998 | 362.2 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1999 | 189 kg/ha | -47.8% |
| 2000 | 336.9 kg/ha | +78.3% |
| 2001 | 358.2 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2002 | 187.1 kg/ha | -47.8% |
| 2003 | 201.8 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 2004 | 341.8 kg/ha | +69.4% |
| 2005 | 321.9 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2006 | 433.3 kg/ha | +34.6% |
| 2007 | 252.1 kg/ha | -41.8% |
| 2008 | 216.9 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 2009 | 170.9 kg/ha | -21.2% |
| 2010 | 213.1 kg/ha | +24.7% |
| 2011 | 206.2 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2012 | 195.1 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 2013 | 201.5 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2014 | 105.9 kg/ha | -47.4% |
| 2015 | 184.3 kg/ha | +74.0% |
| 2016 | 106.4 kg/ha | -42.3% |
| 2017 | 229.2 kg/ha | +115.4% |
| 2018 | 329.5 kg/ha | +43.8% |
| 2019 | 299.3 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 2020 | 372.9 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 2021 | 223.4 kg/ha | -40.1% |
| 2022 | 185.3 kg/ha | -17.1% |
| 2023 | 103.9 kg/ha | -43.9% |
| 2024 | 68.1 kg/ha | -34.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Millet — Yield in Southern 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | +115.4% | 106.4 kg/ha | 229.2 kg/ha |
| 1993 | +99.9% | 143.3 kg/ha | 286.4 kg/ha |
| 2000 | +78.3% | 189 kg/ha | 336.9 kg/ha |
| 2015 | +74.0% | 105.9 kg/ha | 184.3 kg/ha |
| 2004 | +69.4% | 201.8 kg/ha | 341.8 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 317.57 kg/ha | 292.3 kg/ha | 361.8 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 290.84 kg/ha | 275 kg/ha | 302.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 333.86 kg/ha | 295 kg/ha | 387.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 271.66 kg/ha | 143.3 kg/ha | 375.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 282.09 kg/ha | 170.9 kg/ha | 433.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 207.05 kg/ha | 105.9 kg/ha | 329.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 190.72 kg/ha | 68.1 kg/ha | 372.9 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is millet — yield in Southern Africa?
- Millet — yield in Southern Africa was 68.1 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest millet — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 433.3 kg/ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest millet — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 68.1 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Southern Africa rank for millet — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 26th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is millet — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 35.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Southern Africa 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.