Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β Yield in Benin
Benin: Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β Yield was 12,000 kg/ha in 2024. β² Rising
Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β Yield in Benin, 1961β2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Benin recorded 12,000 kg/ha for onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.0% on the previous year and down 25.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield in Benin peaked at 23,041 kg/ha in 2007 and was at its lowest, 4,706 kg/ha, in 1964.
That places Benin 113th out of 150 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,987 kg/ha | 4,706 kg/ha | 7,500 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,180 kg/ha | 4,750 kg/ha | 8,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,877 kg/ha | 8,333 kg/ha | 12,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 10,414 kg/ha | 4,778 kg/ha | 14,401 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,440 kg/ha | 8,227 kg/ha | 23,041 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,313 kg/ha | 8,162 kg/ha | 18,658 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,498 kg/ha | 11,316 kg/ha | 13,681 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas β Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield in Benin?
- Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield in Benin was 12,000 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 23,041 kg/ha in 2007.
- What is the lowest onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,706 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does Benin rank for onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield?
- Benin ranks 113th out of 150 countries with data for 2024.
- Is onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is down 25.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Benin data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β 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.