Oil palm fruit — Production in Africa
Africa: Oil palm fruit — Production was 25.86 million t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oil palm fruit — Production in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Africa recorded 25.86 million t for oil palm fruit — production in 2024.
The figure is down 0.6% on the previous year and up 34.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oil palm fruit — production in Africa peaked at 26.01 million t in 2023 and was at its lowest, 10.05 million t, in 1967.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10.92 million t | 10.05 million t | 11.52 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 10.74 million t | 10.30 million t | 11.33 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 11.13 million t | 10.16 million t | 12.04 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 13.82 million t | 12.40 million t | 14.84 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 16.34 million t | 14.93 million t | 17.86 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 19.76 million t | 17.75 million t | 22.64 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 24.98 million t | 23.40 million t | 26.01 million t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Africa
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 706,446 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 50 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 2.37 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 47.50 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 31.26 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 2.29 million ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 15,779 kg/ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 613,627 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 26.38 million t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 47.50 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oil palm fruit — production in Africa?
- Oil palm fruit — production in Africa was 25.86 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oil palm fruit — production recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 26.01 million t in 2023.
- What is the lowest oil palm fruit — production recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 10.05 million t in 1967.
- How does Africa rank for oil palm fruit — production?
- Africa ranks 3rd out of 18 groups with data for 2024.
- Is oil palm fruit — production rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 34.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Oil palm fruit — 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.