Plums and sloes — Yield in World
World: Plums and sloes — Yield was 4,818 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plums and sloes — Yield in World, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
World recorded 4,818 kg/ha for plums and sloes — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.7% on the previous year and up 7.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plums and sloes — yield in World peaked at 15,578 kg/ha in 1961 and was at its lowest, 3,613 kg/ha, in 1998.
World ranks 23rd of 25 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Plums and sloes — Yield in World, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 15,578 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 10,472 kg/ha | -32.8% |
| 1963 | 12,850 kg/ha | +22.7% |
| 1964 | 10,482 kg/ha | -18.4% |
| 1965 | 10,741 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1966 | 11,262 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1967 | 9,934 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1968 | 11,016 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1969 | 12,138 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1970 | 10,151 kg/ha | -16.4% |
| 1971 | 9,178 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 1972 | 9,172 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1973 | 9,045 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1974 | 8,570 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1975 | 8,578 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1976 | 9,560 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1977 | 9,027 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1978 | 9,377 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1979 | 11,426 kg/ha | +21.9% |
| 1980 | 9,495 kg/ha | -16.9% |
| 1981 | 8,668 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1982 | 10,562 kg/ha | +21.9% |
| 1983 | 10,464 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1984 | 9,900 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1985 | 5,199 kg/ha | -47.5% |
| 1986 | 4,857 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1987 | 4,708 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1988 | 4,619 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1989 | 4,431 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1990 | 4,025 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 1991 | 3,914 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1992 | 3,976 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1993 | 3,990 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1994 | 3,807 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1995 | 3,681 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1996 | 4,227 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 1997 | 4,571 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1998 | 3,613 kg/ha | -20.9% |
| 1999 | 3,873 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2000 | 3,835 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2001 | 4,080 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2002 | 4,152 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2003 | 4,496 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2004 | 4,172 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 2005 | 4,361 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2006 | 4,590 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2007 | 4,043 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 2008 | 4,197 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2009 | 4,377 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2010 | 4,468 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2011 | 4,427 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2012 | 4,224 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 2013 | 4,279 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2014 | 4,486 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2015 | 4,505 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 4,589 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2017 | 4,607 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 4,888 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2019 | 4,892 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 4,725 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2021 | 4,790 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2022 | 4,800 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 4,785 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2024 | 4,818 kg/ha | +0.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plums and sloes — Yield in World 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | -47.5% | 9,900 kg/ha | 5,199 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11,608 kg/ha | 9,934 kg/ha | 15,578 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,408 kg/ha | 8,570 kg/ha | 11,426 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,290 kg/ha | 4,431 kg/ha | 10,562 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,968 kg/ha | 3,613 kg/ha | 4,571 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,230 kg/ha | 3,835 kg/ha | 4,590 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,537 kg/ha | 4,224 kg/ha | 4,892 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,784 kg/ha | 4,725 kg/ha | 4,818 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plums and sloes — yield in World?
- Plums and sloes — yield in World was 4,818 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plums and sloes — yield recorded in World?
- The highest recorded value was 15,578 kg/ha in 1961.
- What is the lowest plums and sloes — yield recorded in World?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,613 kg/ha in 1998.
- How does World rank for plums and sloes — yield?
- World ranks 23rd out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is plums and sloes — yield rising or falling in World?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this World 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.