Oil palm fruit — Yield in Western Africa
Western Africa: Oil palm fruit — Yield was 3,405 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Oil palm fruit — Yield in Western Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for oil palm fruit — yield in Western Africa is 3,405 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and down 2.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oil palm fruit — yield in Western Africa peaked at 3,533 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 2,901 kg/ha, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,955 kg/ha | 2,901 kg/ha | 3,037 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,216 kg/ha | 3,079 kg/ha | 3,313 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,294 kg/ha | 3,213 kg/ha | 3,352 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,282 kg/ha | 3,146 kg/ha | 3,392 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,240 kg/ha | 3,137 kg/ha | 3,403 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,391 kg/ha | 3,210 kg/ha | 3,533 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,418 kg/ha | 3,396 kg/ha | 3,464 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Western Africa
- 16 Cameroon 13,159 kg/ha compare
- 17 São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of 12,863 kg/ha compare
- 18 Congo, Republic of 12,469 kg/ha compare
- 19 Papua New Guinea 12,460 kg/ha compare
- 20 Angola 12,108 kg/ha compare
- 21 Madagascar 11,587 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Western Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 48 kg/An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 14.80 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 50,778 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 17.11 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 1.05 million ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 6,608 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 6.91 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 39,728 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 8.72 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 598,635 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oil palm fruit — yield in Western Africa?
- Oil palm fruit — yield in Western Africa was 3,405 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 3,533 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest oil palm fruit — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,901 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Western Africa rank for oil palm fruit — yield?
- Western Africa ranks 18th out of 18 groups with data for 2024.
- Is oil palm fruit — yield rising or falling in Western Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western 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.