Plums and sloes — Yield in Cyprus
Cyprus: Plums and sloes — Yield was 3,974 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plums and sloes — Yield in Cyprus, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Cyprus recorded 3,974 kg/ha for plums and sloes — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 1.9% on the previous year and up 131.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plums and sloes — yield in Cyprus peaked at 8,000 kg/ha in 1998 and was at its lowest, 1,149 kg/ha, in 1987.
That places Cyprus 67th out of 88 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.
Plums and sloes — Yield in Cyprus, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,884 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,030 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1963 | 2,109 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1964 | 2,748 kg/ha | +30.3% |
| 1965 | 2,291 kg/ha | -16.6% |
| 1966 | 2,854 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 1967 | 3,387 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 1968 | 3,357 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1969 | 2,854 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 1970 | 3,225 kg/ha | +13.0% |
| 1971 | 3,294 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1972 | 4,064 kg/ha | +23.4% |
| 1973 | 4,526 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 1974 | 3,042 kg/ha | -32.8% |
| 1975 | 4,563 kg/ha | +50.0% |
| 1976 | 4,868 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1977 | 3,802 kg/ha | -21.9% |
| 1978 | 4,974 kg/ha | +30.8% |
| 1979 | 6,546 kg/ha | +31.6% |
| 1980 | 6,382 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1981 | 5,977 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1982 | 5,595 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1983 | 6,167 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1984 | 4,060 kg/ha | -34.2% |
| 1985 | 5,402 kg/ha | +33.1% |
| 1986 | 4,598 kg/ha | -14.9% |
| 1987 | 1,149 kg/ha | -75.0% |
| 1988 | 6,667 kg/ha | +480.0% |
| 1989 | 6,111 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1990 | 5,263 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 1991 | 5,100 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1992 | 4,500 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1993 | 7,632 kg/ha | +69.6% |
| 1994 | 7,647 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1995 | 5,714 kg/ha | -25.3% |
| 1996 | 5,714 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 6,286 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1998 | 8,000 kg/ha | +27.3% |
| 1999 | 5,500 kg/ha | -31.2% |
| 2000 | 5,083 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2001 | 4,583 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 2002 | 4,231 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 2003 | 2,353 kg/ha | -44.4% |
| 2004 | 2,678 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 2005 | 2,669 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2006 | 2,032 kg/ha | -23.9% |
| 2007 | 1,868 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2008 | 2,394 kg/ha | +28.1% |
| 2009 | 1,489 kg/ha | -37.8% |
| 2010 | 1,348 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 2011 | 1,463 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2012 | 1,802 kg/ha | +23.2% |
| 2013 | 1,455 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 2014 | 1,715 kg/ha | +17.9% |
| 2015 | 3,016 kg/ha | +75.8% |
| 2016 | 2,612 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 2017 | 4,261 kg/ha | +63.1% |
| 2018 | 3,216 kg/ha | -24.5% |
| 2019 | 3,184 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2020 | 3,721 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 2021 | 3,954 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2022 | 4,333 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2023 | 4,053 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2024 | 3,974 kg/ha | -1.9% |
Cyprus compared with similar countries
- Cyprus's 3,974 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 6,566 kg/ha, 61% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
- Cyprus's 3,974 kg/ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 6,048 kg/ha, 66% of the median. (40 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plums and sloes — Yield in Cyprus changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | +480.0% | 1,149 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,613 kg/ha | 1,884 kg/ha | 3,387 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,291 kg/ha | 3,042 kg/ha | 6,546 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,211 kg/ha | 1,149 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,136 kg/ha | 4,500 kg/ha | 8,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,938 kg/ha | 1,489 kg/ha | 5,083 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,407 kg/ha | 1,348 kg/ha | 4,261 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,007 kg/ha | 3,721 kg/ha | 4,333 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cyprus
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.78 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0112 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 335.46 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8799 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3331 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.6% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plums and sloes — yield in Cyprus?
- Plums and sloes — yield in Cyprus was 3,974 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Cyprus?
- The highest recorded value was 8,000 kg/ha in 1998.
- What is the lowest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Cyprus?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,149 kg/ha in 1987.
- How does Cyprus rank for plums and sloes — yield?
- Cyprus ranks 67th out of 88 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plums and sloes — yield rising or falling in Cyprus?
- Over the last ten years it is up 131.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Cyprus data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Plums and sloes — Yield. 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.