Oil palm fruit — Production in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Oil palm fruit — Production was 401,642 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oil palm fruit — Production in Sierra Leone, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for oil palm fruit — production in Sierra Leone is 401,642 t, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.7% on the previous year and up 84.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oil palm fruit — production in Sierra Leone peaked at 401,642 t in 2024 and was at its lowest, 175,000 t, in 1999.
Sierra Leone ranks 24th of 41 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 | 250,000 t | 250,000 t | 250,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 250,000 t | 250,000 t | 250,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 250,000 t | 250,000 t | 250,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 228,442 t | 175,000 t | 250,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 195,100 t | 175,000 t | 210,000 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 261,199 t | 210,000 t | 380,000 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 369,028 t | 350,000 t | 401,642 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sierra Leone
More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2954 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 250 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5407 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 29.54 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 29.54 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oil palm fruit — production in Sierra Leone?
- Oil palm fruit — production in Sierra Leone was 401,642 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oil palm fruit — production recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 401,642 t in 2024.
- What is the lowest oil palm fruit — production recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 175,000 t in 1999.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for oil palm fruit — production?
- Sierra Leone ranks 24th out of 41 countries with data for 2024.
- Is oil palm fruit — production rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is up 84.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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.