Oranges — Yield in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Oranges — Yield was 1,198 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Oranges — Yield in Sri Lanka, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for oranges — yield in Sri Lanka is 1,198 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 17.1% on the previous year and up 6.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, oranges — yield in Sri Lanka peaked at 5,088 kg/ha in 1983 and was at its lowest, 806.5 kg/ha, in 1992.
That places Sri Lanka 124th out of 128 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,925 kg/ha | 1,523 kg/ha | 3,964 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,138 kg/ha | 1,741 kg/ha | 3,174 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,296 kg/ha | 1,122 kg/ha | 5,088 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,012 kg/ha | 806.5 kg/ha | 1,434 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,355 kg/ha | 1,120 kg/ha | 1,510 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,166 kg/ha | 1,023 kg/ha | 1,318 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,316 kg/ha | 1,177 kg/ha | 1,446 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Rural population 79.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 17.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 8,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is oranges — yield in Sri Lanka?
- Oranges — yield in Sri Lanka was 1,198 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest oranges — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 5,088 kg/ha in 1983.
- What is the lowest oranges — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 806.5 kg/ha in 1992.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for oranges — yield?
- Sri Lanka ranks 124th out of 128 countries with data for 2024.
- Is oranges — yield rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sri Lanka data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Oranges — 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.