Plums and sloes — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Plums and sloes — Yield was 7,348 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plums and sloes — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for plums and sloes — yield in Eastern Africa is 7,348 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 23.7% on the previous year and up 15.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plums and sloes — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 10,982 kg/ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 3,643 kg/ha, in 1984.
Eastern Africa ranks 15th of 25 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Plums and sloes — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,167 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,167 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 4,167 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 4,255 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1965 | 4,194 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1966 | 4,194 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 4,286 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1968 | 4,286 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 4,231 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1970 | 4,118 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1971 | 4,222 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1972 | 4,210 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1973 | 4,241 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1974 | 5,078 kg/ha | +19.7% |
| 1975 | 5,306 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1976 | 4,024 kg/ha | -24.2% |
| 1977 | 3,923 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1978 | 4,050 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1979 | 4,225 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1980 | 3,859 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1981 | 3,938 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1982 | 3,942 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1983 | 3,783 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1984 | 3,643 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1985 | 3,727 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1986 | 3,680 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1987 | 3,832 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1988 | 4,002 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1989 | 4,012 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1990 | 3,945 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1991 | 4,014 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1992 | 7,977 kg/ha | +98.7% |
| 1993 | 6,315 kg/ha | -20.8% |
| 1994 | 5,809 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1995 | 5,112 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 1996 | 4,166 kg/ha | -18.5% |
| 1997 | 5,666 kg/ha | +36.0% |
| 1998 | 6,278 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1999 | 5,643 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2000 | 4,837 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 2001 | 6,423 kg/ha | +32.8% |
| 2002 | 5,756 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 2003 | 6,544 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 2004 | 7,731 kg/ha | +18.1% |
| 2005 | 9,092 kg/ha | +17.6% |
| 2006 | 10,982 kg/ha | +20.8% |
| 2007 | 10,822 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2008 | 9,753 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 2009 | 8,797 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 2010 | 7,611 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 2011 | 6,581 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 2012 | 6,749 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2013 | 6,569 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2014 | 6,340 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2015 | 6,212 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2016 | 6,204 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 5,862 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2018 | 5,773 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2019 | 5,641 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2020 | 5,721 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2021 | 5,810 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2022 | 5,823 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 5,938 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2024 | 7,348 kg/ha | +23.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plums and sloes — Yield in Eastern Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | +98.7% | 4,014 kg/ha | 7,977 kg/ha |
| 1997 | +36.0% | 4,166 kg/ha | 5,666 kg/ha |
| 2001 | +32.8% | 4,837 kg/ha | 6,423 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,216 kg/ha | 4,167 kg/ha | 4,286 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,340 kg/ha | 3,923 kg/ha | 5,306 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,842 kg/ha | 3,643 kg/ha | 4,012 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,492 kg/ha | 3,945 kg/ha | 7,977 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 8,074 kg/ha | 4,837 kg/ha | 10,982 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,354 kg/ha | 5,641 kg/ha | 7,611 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,128 kg/ha | 5,721 kg/ha | 7,348 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plums and sloes — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Plums and sloes — yield in Eastern Africa was 7,348 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 10,982 kg/ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,643 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for plums and sloes — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 15th out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plums and sloes — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa 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.