Oil palm fruit — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Oil palm fruit — Yield was 11,570 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oil palm fruit — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, oil palm fruit — yield in Eastern Africa stood at 11,570 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 0.7% on the previous year and up 1.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oil palm fruit — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 13,108 kg/ha in 2002 and was at its lowest, 7,895 kg/ha, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Oil palm fruit — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7,895 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 8,929 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 1963 | 8,235 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1964 | 8,235 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 8,000 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1966 | 8,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 8,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 8,571 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1969 | 8,696 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1970 | 9,000 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1971 | 9,981 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1972 | 9,941 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1973 | 9,414 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1974 | 9,602 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1975 | 10,015 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1976 | 9,158 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1977 | 9,992 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1978 | 10,522 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1979 | 10,540 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1980 | 10,508 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1981 | 10,462 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1982 | 10,518 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1983 | 10,518 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 10,518 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 10,809 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1986 | 10,714 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1987 | 11,043 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1988 | 11,443 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1989 | 10,789 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1990 | 11,649 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1991 | 11,960 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1992 | 12,053 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1993 | 12,185 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1994 | 11,879 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1995 | 12,148 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1996 | 12,148 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 12,215 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1998 | 12,384 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1999 | 12,980 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2000 | 13,067 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2001 | 13,034 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2002 | 13,108 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2003 | 12,949 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2004 | 12,771 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2005 | 12,396 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2006 | 11,949 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2007 | 11,554 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2008 | 11,455 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2009 | 11,502 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2010 | 11,631 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 11,737 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 11,684 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2013 | 11,552 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2014 | 11,454 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2015 | 11,422 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2016 | 11,396 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 11,356 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 11,310 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2019 | 11,277 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 11,245 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2021 | 11,650 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2022 | 11,575 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2023 | 11,489 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2024 | 11,570 kg/ha | +0.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8,285 kg/ha | 7,895 kg/ha | 8,929 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,817 kg/ha | 9,000 kg/ha | 10,540 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,732 kg/ha | 10,462 kg/ha | 11,443 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 12,160 kg/ha | 11,649 kg/ha | 12,980 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 12,379 kg/ha | 11,455 kg/ha | 13,108 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,482 kg/ha | 11,277 kg/ha | 11,737 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,506 kg/ha | 11,245 kg/ha | 11,650 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 6 Ecuador 16,870 kg/ha compare
- 6 Caribbean 13,797 kg/ha compare
- 7 Costa Rica 16,400 kg/ha compare
- 7 Democratic Republic of the Congo 6,580 kg/ha compare
- 8 Nicaragua 15,357 kg/ha compare
- 9 Colombia 15,295 kg/ha compare
- 10 Peru 14,691 kg/ha compare
- 11 Brazil 14,525 kg/ha compare
- 12 Mexico 14,260 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is oil palm fruit — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Oil palm fruit — yield in Eastern Africa was 11,570 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 13,108 kg/ha in 2002.
- What is the lowest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 7,895 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for oil palm fruit — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 9th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is oil palm fruit — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern 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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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.