Oil palm fruit — Yield in Africa
Africa: Oil palm fruit — Yield was 4,028 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oil palm fruit — Yield in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Africa recorded 4,028 kg/ha for oil palm fruit — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and down 2.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oil palm fruit — yield in Africa peaked at 4,178 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 3,300 kg/ha, in 1966.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,429 kg/ha | 3,300 kg/ha | 3,608 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,687 kg/ha | 3,597 kg/ha | 3,781 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,698 kg/ha | 3,613 kg/ha | 3,811 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,695 kg/ha | 3,576 kg/ha | 3,849 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,730 kg/ha | 3,596 kg/ha | 3,917 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,017 kg/ha | 3,852 kg/ha | 4,178 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,040 kg/ha | 4,011 kg/ha | 4,069 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Africa
- 14 Dominican Republic 13,797 kg/ha compare
- 16 China 13,167 kg/ha compare
- 16 China, mainland 13,167 kg/ha compare
- 18 Cameroon 13,159 kg/ha compare
- 19 Sao Tome and Principe 12,863 kg/ha compare
- 20 Congo 12,469 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Africa
- Tomatoes — Production 26.38 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 31.26 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 47.50 million 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 — Yield/Carcass Weight 50 kg/An (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 2.29 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 706,446 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 1.67 million ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 15,779 kg/ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 613,627 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oil palm fruit — yield in Africa?
- Oil palm fruit — yield in Africa was 4,028 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 4,178 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,300 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Africa rank for oil palm fruit — yield?
- Africa ranks 17th out of 18 groups with data for 2024.
- Is oil palm fruit — yield rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.8%. 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 — 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.