Natural honey — Production in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Natural honey — Production was 46,229 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Natural honey — Production in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for natural honey — production in Middle Africa is 46,229 t, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, natural honey — production in Middle Africa peaked at 46,229 t in 2024 and was at its lowest, 21,581 t, in 1972.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Natural honey — Production in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 24,880 t | — |
| 1962 | 25,040 t | +0.6% |
| 1963 | 25,150 t | +0.4% |
| 1964 | 25,310 t | +0.6% |
| 1965 | 26,020 t | +2.8% |
| 1966 | 26,380 t | +1.4% |
| 1967 | 26,890 t | +1.9% |
| 1968 | 23,388 t | -13.0% |
| 1969 | 23,025 t | -1.6% |
| 1970 | 24,223 t | +5.2% |
| 1971 | 23,337 t | -3.7% |
| 1972 | 21,581 t | -7.5% |
| 1973 | 23,060 t | +6.9% |
| 1974 | 23,060 t | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 23,560 t | +2.2% |
| 1976 | 23,620 t | +0.3% |
| 1977 | 23,620 t | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 25,130 t | +6.4% |
| 1979 | 25,190 t | +0.2% |
| 1980 | 25,160 t | -0.1% |
| 1981 | 25,710 t | +2.2% |
| 1982 | 26,810 t | +4.3% |
| 1983 | 27,030 t | +0.8% |
| 1984 | 27,160 t | +0.5% |
| 1985 | 28,360 t | +4.4% |
| 1986 | 28,460 t | +0.4% |
| 1987 | 29,293 t | +2.9% |
| 1988 | 30,834 t | +5.3% |
| 1989 | 31,247 t | +1.3% |
| 1990 | 32,425 t | +3.8% |
| 1991 | 32,536 t | +0.3% |
| 1992 | 33,638 t | +3.4% |
| 1993 | 34,401 t | +2.3% |
| 1994 | 34,889 t | +1.4% |
| 1995 | 36,262 t | +3.9% |
| 1996 | 37,687 t | +3.9% |
| 1997 | 37,792 t | +0.3% |
| 1998 | 38,130 t | +0.9% |
| 1999 | 39,384 t | +3.3% |
| 2000 | 40,986 t | +4.1% |
| 2001 | 42,655 t | +4.1% |
| 2002 | 40,284 t | -5.6% |
| 2003 | 40,275 t | -0.0% |
| 2004 | 40,477 t | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 41,516 t | +2.6% |
| 2006 | 41,070 t | -1.1% |
| 2007 | 41,618 t | +1.3% |
| 2008 | 42,476 t | +2.1% |
| 2009 | 43,032 t | +1.3% |
| 2010 | 43,350 t | +0.7% |
| 2011 | 43,640 t | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 44,300 t | +1.5% |
| 2013 | 44,900 t | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 45,361 t | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 44,855 t | -1.1% |
| 2016 | 44,761 t | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 45,114 t | +0.8% |
| 2018 | 45,160 t | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 45,261 t | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 45,441 t | +0.4% |
| 2021 | 45,744 t | +0.7% |
| 2022 | 45,850 t | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 46,039 t | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 46,229 t | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 25,120 t | 23,025 t | 26,890 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 23,638 t | 21,581 t | 25,190 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 28,006 t | 25,160 t | 31,247 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 35,714 t | 32,425 t | 39,384 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 41,439 t | 40,275 t | 43,032 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 44,670 t | 43,350 t | 45,361 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 45,861 t | 45,441 t | 46,229 t | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is natural honey — production in Middle Africa?
- Natural honey — production in Middle Africa was 46,229 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest natural honey — production recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 46,229 t in 2024.
- What is the lowest natural honey — production recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 21,581 t in 1972.
- How does Middle Africa rank for natural honey — production?
- Middle Africa ranks 5th out of 15 regions with data for 2024.
- Is natural honey — production rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Natural honey — Production. 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.