Oil palm fruit — Yield in Madagascar
Madagascar: Oil palm fruit — Yield was 11,587 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oil palm fruit — Yield in Madagascar, 1973–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Madagascar recorded 11,587 kg/ha for oil palm fruit — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oil palm fruit — yield in Madagascar peaked at 12,250 kg/ha in 1993 and was at its lowest, 5,180 kg/ha, in 1976.
Madagascar ranks 21st of 41 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 52 years of available data.
Oil palm fruit — Yield in Madagascar, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 8,600 kg/ha | — |
| 1974 | 10,289 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 1975 | 10,385 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1976 | 5,180 kg/ha | -50.1% |
| 1977 | 10,409 kg/ha | +100.9% |
| 1978 | 10,454 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1979 | 10,454 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 10,250 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1981 | 10,000 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1982 | 10,345 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1983 | 10,345 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 10,345 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 10,690 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1986 | 10,000 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1987 | 10,625 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1988 | 11,562 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1989 | 10,256 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1990 | 11,282 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1991 | 11,538 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1992 | 12,051 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1993 | 12,250 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1994 | 11,944 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1995 | 11,944 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 11,111 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 1997 | 11,667 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1998 | 11,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 12,222 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2000 | 11,667 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2001 | 11,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 11,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 11,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 11,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 11,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 11,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 11,667 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 11,658 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2009 | 11,658 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 11,648 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 11,648 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 11,892 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2013 | 11,460 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2014 | 11,578 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 11,633 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2016 | 11,697 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2017 | 11,705 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 11,603 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2019 | 11,597 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2020 | 11,592 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2021 | 11,594 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 11,599 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 11,593 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 11,587 kg/ha | -0.1% |
Madagascar compared with similar countries
- Madagascar's 11,587 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 9,791 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (7 countries reporting)
- Madagascar's 11,587 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 9,984 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (19 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Oil palm fruit — Yield in Madagascar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | +100.9% | 5,180 kg/ha | 10,409 kg/ha |
| 1976 | -50.1% | 10,385 kg/ha | 5,180 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 9,396 kg/ha | 5,180 kg/ha | 10,454 kg/ha | 7 |
| 1980s | 10,442 kg/ha | 10,000 kg/ha | 11,562 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,768 kg/ha | 11,111 kg/ha | 12,250 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 11,665 kg/ha | 11,658 kg/ha | 11,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,646 kg/ha | 11,460 kg/ha | 11,892 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,593 kg/ha | 11,587 kg/ha | 11,599 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Madagascar
More agriculture & rural data for Madagascar
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.42 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.217 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 130.06 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.72 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0011 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.671 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oil palm fruit — yield in Madagascar?
- Oil palm fruit — yield in Madagascar was 11,587 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Madagascar?
- The highest recorded value was 12,250 kg/ha in 1993.
- What is the lowest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Madagascar?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,180 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Madagascar rank for oil palm fruit — yield?
- Madagascar ranks 21st out of 41 countries with data for 2024.
- Is oil palm fruit — yield rising or falling in Madagascar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Madagascar 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.