Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β Yield in Malawi
Malawi: Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β Yield was 20,164 kg/ha in 2024. β Volatile
Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β Yield in Malawi, 1961β2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield in Malawi is 20,164 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 11.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield in Malawi peaked at 22,820 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 2,333 kg/ha, in 1973.
Malawi ranks 83rd of 150 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,553 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 2,625 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,735 kg/ha | 2,333 kg/ha | 3,077 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,535 kg/ha | 3,171 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,643 kg/ha | 3,722 kg/ha | 11,111 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 18,328 kg/ha | 13,044 kg/ha | 20,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,390 kg/ha | 18,702 kg/ha | 22,820 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,930 kg/ha | 18,908 kg/ha | 20,232 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture share gdp 30.03 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 30.03 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 82.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.2% (2025)
- Rural population 18.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas β Production 1.13 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield in Malawi?
- Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield in Malawi was 20,164 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 Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 22,820 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,333 kg/ha in 1973.
- How does Malawi rank for onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield?
- Malawi ranks 83rd out of 150 countries with data for 2024.
- Is onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) β yield rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Malawi 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.