Oats — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Oats — Yield was 1,797 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oats — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for oats — yield in Eastern Africa is 1,797 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.7% on the previous year and up 12.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oats — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 1,977 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 315.9 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Eastern Africa 15th out of 24 groups 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.
Oats — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 458.3 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 315.9 kg/ha | -31.1% |
| 1963 | 374.8 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 1964 | 359.8 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1965 | 416.4 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 1966 | 414.1 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1967 | 405.5 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1968 | 582.3 kg/ha | +43.6% |
| 1969 | 595.3 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1970 | 580 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1971 | 580 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 628.1 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1973 | 736.8 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 1974 | 761.9 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1975 | 760.9 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1976 | 782.6 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1977 | 819 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1978 | 831.1 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1979 | 1,017 kg/ha | +22.3% |
| 1980 | 1,015 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1981 | 1,269 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 1982 | 842.7 kg/ha | -33.6% |
| 1983 | 1,103 kg/ha | +30.9% |
| 1984 | 886.8 kg/ha | -19.6% |
| 1985 | 769.4 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 1986 | 854.3 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1987 | 901.9 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1988 | 946.3 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1989 | 1,132 kg/ha | +19.7% |
| 1990 | 1,145 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1991 | 1,405 kg/ha | +22.8% |
| 1992 | 1,005 kg/ha | -28.5% |
| 1993 | 1,228 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1994 | 1,091 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 1995 | 964.7 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1996 | 1,306 kg/ha | +35.4% |
| 1997 | 1,079 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 1998 | 1,023 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1999 | 929.2 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 2000 | 933 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 1,095 kg/ha | +17.4% |
| 2002 | 1,178 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2003 | 1,272 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2004 | 1,281 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2005 | 1,245 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2006 | 919.8 kg/ha | -26.1% |
| 2007 | 1,193 kg/ha | +29.7% |
| 2008 | 1,200 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2009 | 1,204 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2010 | 1,352 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2011 | 1,351 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,410 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2013 | 1,604 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 2014 | 1,596 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2015 | 1,656 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2016 | 1,814 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 2017 | 1,807 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2018 | 1,728 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2019 | 1,977 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 2020 | 1,911 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2021 | 1,640 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 2022 | 1,656 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 1,734 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2024 | 1,797 kg/ha | +3.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 435.82 kg/ha | 315.9 kg/ha | 595.3 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 749.71 kg/ha | 580 kg/ha | 1,017 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 972.18 kg/ha | 769.4 kg/ha | 1,269 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,118 kg/ha | 929.2 kg/ha | 1,405 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,152 kg/ha | 919.8 kg/ha | 1,281 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,629 kg/ha | 1,351 kg/ha | 1,977 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,748 kg/ha | 1,640 kg/ha | 1,911 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is oats — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Oats — yield in Eastern Africa was 1,797 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oats — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,977 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest oats — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 315.9 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for oats — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 15th out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is oats — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Oats — 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.