Oats — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Oats — Yield was 1,382 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oats — Yield in Southern 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 Southern Africa is 1,382 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 7.3% on the previous year and down 15.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oats — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 2,170 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 793.5 kg/ha, in 2019.
That places Southern Africa 21st out of 24 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Oats — Yield in Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,476 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,414 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1963 | 1,301 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1964 | 1,499 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 1965 | 1,549 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1966 | 1,466 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1967 | 1,688 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 1968 | 1,641 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1969 | 1,287 kg/ha | -21.6% |
| 1970 | 1,512 kg/ha | +17.5% |
| 1971 | 1,400 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 1972 | 1,400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,388 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1974 | 1,437 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1975 | 1,351 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1976 | 1,344 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1977 | 1,268 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1978 | 1,381 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1979 | 1,450 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1980 | 1,444 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1981 | 1,490 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1982 | 1,532 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1983 | 1,508 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1984 | 1,472 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1985 | 828 kg/ha | -43.8% |
| 1986 | 1,232 kg/ha | +48.9% |
| 1987 | 1,341 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1988 | 1,232 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1989 | 1,401 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1990 | 1,531 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1991 | 1,208 kg/ha | -21.1% |
| 1992 | 1,287 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1993 | 1,320 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1994 | 1,478 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 1995 | 1,357 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1996 | 1,323 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1997 | 1,006 kg/ha | -23.9% |
| 1998 | 1,018 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1999 | 1,023 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2000 | 1,321 kg/ha | +29.2% |
| 2001 | 1,806 kg/ha | +36.7% |
| 2002 | 1,937 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2003 | 1,321 kg/ha | -31.8% |
| 2004 | 1,433 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2005 | 1,491 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2006 | 1,554 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2007 | 1,585 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2008 | 1,588 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 1,609 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2010 | 1,656 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2011 | 1,688 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2012 | 1,721 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2013 | 1,762 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2014 | 1,644 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2015 | 1,607 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2016 | 1,628 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2017 | 1,648 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2018 | 1,698 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2019 | 793.5 kg/ha | -53.3% |
| 2020 | 2,170 kg/ha | +173.5% |
| 2021 | 1,627 kg/ha | -25.0% |
| 2022 | 1,025 kg/ha | -37.0% |
| 2023 | 1,491 kg/ha | +45.5% |
| 2024 | 1,382 kg/ha | -7.3% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Oats — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | +173.5% | 793.5 kg/ha | 2,170 kg/ha |
| 2019 | -53.3% | 1,698 kg/ha | 793.5 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,480 kg/ha | 1,287 kg/ha | 1,688 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,393 kg/ha | 1,268 kg/ha | 1,512 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,348 kg/ha | 828 kg/ha | 1,532 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,255 kg/ha | 1,006 kg/ha | 1,531 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,564 kg/ha | 1,321 kg/ha | 1,937 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,585 kg/ha | 793.5 kg/ha | 1,762 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,539 kg/ha | 1,025 kg/ha | 2,170 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is oats — yield in Southern Africa?
- Oats — yield in Southern Africa was 1,382 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oats — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 2,170 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest oats — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 793.5 kg/ha in 2019.
- How does Southern Africa rank for oats — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 21st out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is oats — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 15.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern 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.