Plums and sloes — Yield in India
India: Plums and sloes — Yield was 3,764 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plums and sloes — Yield in India, 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 India is 3,764 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 2.8% on the previous year and up 13.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plums and sloes — yield in India peaked at 4,074 kg/ha in 1963 and was at its lowest, 2,286 kg/ha, in 2011.
That places India 69th 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 India, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,667 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,062 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1963 | 4,074 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1964 | 4,054 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1965 | 4,000 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1966 | 4,054 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1967 | 4,000 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1968 | 4,048 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1969 | 4,000 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1970 | 4,043 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1971 | 4,000 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1972 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 4,043 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1974 | 4,000 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1975 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 4,032 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1978 | 4,000 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1979 | 4,030 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1980 | 4,000 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1981 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 3,977 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1985 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1986 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 2,371 kg/ha | -40.7% |
| 1988 | 2,338 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1989 | 2,409 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1990 | 4,000 kg/ha | +66.1% |
| 1991 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 4,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 3,986 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1994 | 3,664 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1995 | 3,588 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1996 | 3,511 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1997 | 3,432 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1998 | 3,351 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1999 | 3,270 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2000 | 3,187 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2001 | 3,102 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2002 | 3,070 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2003 | 3,036 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2004 | 3,001 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2005 | 2,964 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2006 | 2,927 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2007 | 2,888 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2008 | 2,848 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2009 | 2,807 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2010 | 2,765 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2011 | 2,286 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 2012 | 2,769 kg/ha | +21.2% |
| 2013 | 3,083 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 2014 | 3,304 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2015 | 3,130 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2016 | 3,666 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 2017 | 3,441 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 2018 | 3,805 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 2019 | 3,645 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2020 | 3,753 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2021 | 3,592 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2022 | 3,621 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 3,662 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2024 | 3,764 kg/ha | +2.8% |
India compared with similar countries
- India's 3,764 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 7,312 kg/ha, 51% of the median. (16 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plums and sloes — Yield in India 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | +66.1% | 2,409 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha |
| 1987 | -40.7% | 4,000 kg/ha | 2,371 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,995 kg/ha | 3,667 kg/ha | 4,074 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,015 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 4,043 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,509 kg/ha | 2,338 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,680 kg/ha | 3,270 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,983 kg/ha | 2,807 kg/ha | 3,187 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,190 kg/ha | 2,286 kg/ha | 3,805 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,678 kg/ha | 3,592 kg/ha | 3,764 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for India
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.83 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1623 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 438.73 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4067 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6431 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plums and sloes — yield in India?
- Plums and sloes — yield in India was 3,764 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plums and sloes — yield recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 4,074 kg/ha in 1963.
- What is the lowest plums and sloes — yield recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,286 kg/ha in 2011.
- How does India rank for plums and sloes — yield?
- India ranks 69th out of 88 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plums and sloes — yield rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this India 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.