Oats — Yield in Lesotho
Lesotho: Oats — Yield was 1,541 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oats — Yield in Lesotho, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Lesotho recorded 1,541 kg/ha for oats — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 1.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oats — yield in Lesotho peaked at 1,608 kg/ha in 1990 and was at its lowest, 1,304 kg/ha, in 1961.
Lesotho ranks 62nd of 83 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,415 kg/ha | 1,304 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,429 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,429 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,397 kg/ha | 1,333 kg/ha | 1,608 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,499 kg/ha | 1,457 kg/ha | 1,585 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,518 kg/ha | 1,500 kg/ha | 1,541 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,541 kg/ha | 1,538 kg/ha | 1,543 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Lesotho
- Agriculture share gdp 6.49 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.49 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 55.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 1.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 166.92 million current US$ (2025)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 35,490 An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oats — yield in Lesotho?
- Oats — yield in Lesotho was 1,541 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oats — yield recorded in Lesotho?
- The highest recorded value was 1,608 kg/ha in 1990.
- What is the lowest oats — yield recorded in Lesotho?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,304 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Lesotho rank for oats — yield?
- Lesotho ranks 62nd out of 83 countries with data for 2024.
- Is oats — yield rising or falling in Lesotho?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Lesotho 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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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.