Pulses, Total — Yield in Gambia
Gambia: Pulses, Total — Yield was 798.5 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Pulses, Total — Yield in Gambia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for pulses, total — yield in Gambia is 798.5 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.4% on the previous year and up 273.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pulses, total — yield in Gambia peaked at 798.5 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 200 kg/ha, in 1961.
Gambia ranks 140th of 182 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 238.28 kg/ha | 200 kg/ha | 260 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 248.58 kg/ha | 214.3 kg/ha | 266.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 267.36 kg/ha | 266.7 kg/ha | 273.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 238.42 kg/ha | 233.6 kg/ha | 246.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 239.88 kg/ha | 213.6 kg/ha | 250 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 347.87 kg/ha | 208 kg/ha | 599.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 704.8 kg/ha | 599.6 kg/ha | 798.5 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Gambia
- Agriculture share gdp 23.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
- Rural population 35.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 988,057 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 618.52 million current US$ (2025)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 25,243 An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is pulses, total — yield in Gambia?
- Pulses, total — yield in Gambia was 798.5 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pulses, total — yield recorded in Gambia?
- The highest recorded value was 798.5 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest pulses, total — yield recorded in Gambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 200 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Gambia rank for pulses, total — yield?
- Gambia ranks 140th out of 182 countries with data for 2024.
- Is pulses, total — yield rising or falling in Gambia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 273.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Gambia 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.