Other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell in Kenya
Kenya: Other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell was 4,309 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Kenya recorded 4,309 ha for other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell in 2024.
The figure is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 7.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell in Kenya peaked at 4,337 ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 633 ha, in 1992.
That places Kenya 25th out of 76 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell in Kenya, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,200 ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 1,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,400 ha | +16.7% |
| 1981 | 1,650 ha | +17.9% |
| 1982 | 1,900 ha | +15.2% |
| 1983 | 2,100 ha | +10.5% |
| 1984 | 2,300 ha | +9.5% |
| 1985 | 2,800 ha | +21.7% |
| 1986 | 2,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 2,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 3,300 ha | +17.9% |
| 1989 | 2,900 ha | -12.1% |
| 1990 | 2,700 ha | -6.9% |
| 1991 | 2,300 ha | -14.8% |
| 1992 | 633 ha | -72.5% |
| 1993 | 637 ha | +0.6% |
| 1994 | 800 ha | +25.6% |
| 1995 | 2,632 ha | +229.0% |
| 1996 | 2,304 ha | -12.5% |
| 1997 | 2,380 ha | +3.3% |
| 1998 | 2,668 ha | +12.1% |
| 1999 | 2,435 ha | -8.7% |
| 2000 | 2,290 ha | -6.0% |
| 2001 | 2,474 ha | +8.0% |
| 2002 | 2,557 ha | +3.4% |
| 2003 | 2,613 ha | +2.2% |
| 2004 | 3,500 ha | +33.9% |
| 2005 | 2,800 ha | -20.0% |
| 2006 | 2,700 ha | -3.6% |
| 2007 | 3,172 ha | +17.5% |
| 2008 | 3,500 ha | +10.3% |
| 2009 | 3,537 ha | +1.1% |
| 2010 | 3,511 ha | -0.7% |
| 2011 | 3,804 ha | +8.3% |
| 2012 | 3,841 ha | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 3,938 ha | +2.5% |
| 2014 | 3,997 ha | +1.5% |
| 2015 | 4,075 ha | +2.0% |
| 2016 | 4,090 ha | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 4,160 ha | +1.7% |
| 2018 | 4,191 ha | +0.7% |
| 2019 | 4,263 ha | +1.7% |
| 2020 | 4,337 ha | +1.7% |
| 2021 | 4,308 ha | -0.7% |
| 2022 | 4,303 ha | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 4,316 ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 4,309 ha | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,200 ha | 1,200 ha | 1,200 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,200 ha | 1,200 ha | 1,200 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,395 ha | 1,400 ha | 3,300 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,949 ha | 633 ha | 2,700 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,914 ha | 2,290 ha | 3,537 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,987 ha | 3,511 ha | 4,263 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,315 ha | 4,303 ha | 4,337 ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell in Kenya?
- Other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell in Kenya was 4,309 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 4,337 ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 633 ha in 1992.
- How does Kenya rank for other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell?
- Kenya ranks 25th out of 76 countries with data for 2024.
- Is other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Other nuts (excluding wild edible nuts and groundnuts), in shell, n.e.c. — Area harvested. 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.