Pulses, Total — Yield in Cameroon
Cameroon: Pulses, Total — Yield was 766 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Pulses, Total — Yield in Cameroon, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, pulses, total — yield in Cameroon stood at 766 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 3.1% on the previous year and down 20.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pulses, total — yield in Cameroon peaked at 1,375 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 420.6 kg/ha, in 1967.
That places Cameroon 134th out of 169 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Pulses, Total — Yield in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 444 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 426.9 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1963 | 445 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1964 | 506.7 kg/ha | +13.9% |
| 1965 | 478 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1966 | 467.8 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1967 | 420.6 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1968 | 437.5 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1969 | 501.6 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 1970 | 458 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1971 | 525.6 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 1972 | 556.3 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1973 | 588.7 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1974 | 575 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1975 | 592.7 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1976 | 605.3 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1977 | 603.7 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1978 | 621.6 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1979 | 624.4 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1980 | 635.6 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1981 | 642.3 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1982 | 655.7 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1983 | 603.3 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1984 | 548.3 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1985 | 687.1 kg/ha | +25.3% |
| 1986 | 711.3 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1987 | 601.9 kg/ha | -15.4% |
| 1988 | 621.9 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1989 | 723.8 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 1990 | 737.8 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1991 | 781.6 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1992 | 799.9 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1993 | 814.1 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1994 | 832.7 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1995 | 846.7 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1996 | 857.7 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1997 | 867.4 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1998 | 873.8 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1999 | 874.6 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 871 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2001 | 858 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2002 | 879.7 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2003 | 877.4 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2004 | 875.1 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2005 | 1,112 kg/ha | +27.1% |
| 2006 | 1,124 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2007 | 1,205 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2008 | 1,215 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2009 | 968.7 kg/ha | -20.3% |
| 2010 | 935.2 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2011 | 939.3 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 1,375 kg/ha | +46.4% |
| 2013 | 1,023 kg/ha | -25.6% |
| 2014 | 962.8 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2015 | 939.2 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2016 | 763.2 kg/ha | -18.7% |
| 2017 | 821.9 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2018 | 895.8 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 2019 | 866.6 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2020 | 825.7 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2021 | 823.8 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2022 | 827.1 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2023 | 790.2 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2024 | 766 kg/ha | -3.1% |
Cameroon compared with similar countries
- Cameroon's 766 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 827.9 kg/ha, 93% of the median. (38 countries reporting)
- Cameroon's 766 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 715.4 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (40 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Pulses, Total — Yield in Cameroon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | +46.4% | 939.3 kg/ha | 1,375 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 458.68 kg/ha | 420.6 kg/ha | 506.7 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 575.13 kg/ha | 458 kg/ha | 624.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 643.12 kg/ha | 548.3 kg/ha | 723.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 828.63 kg/ha | 737.8 kg/ha | 874.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 998.65 kg/ha | 858 kg/ha | 1,215 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 952.17 kg/ha | 763.2 kg/ha | 1,375 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 806.56 kg/ha | 766 kg/ha | 827.1 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 0.9031 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1685 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 332.28 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4433 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is pulses, total — yield in Cameroon?
- Pulses, total — yield in Cameroon was 766 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pulses, total — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 1,375 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest pulses, total — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 420.6 kg/ha in 1967.
- How does Cameroon rank for pulses, total — yield?
- Cameroon ranks 134th out of 169 countries with data for 2024.
- Is pulses, total — yield rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is down 20.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Pulses, Total — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.