Pulses, Total — Yield in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Pulses, Total — Yield was 252.1 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Pulses, Total — Yield in Zimbabwe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Zimbabwe recorded 252.1 kg/ha for pulses, total — yield in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 35.5% on the previous year and down 27.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pulses, total — yield in Zimbabwe peaked at 813.2 kg/ha in 2004 and was at its lowest, 252.1 kg/ha, in 2024.
Zimbabwe ranks 167th of 169 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Pulses, Total — Yield in Zimbabwe, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 590.7 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 654.7 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1963 | 617.3 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1964 | 555.2 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1965 | 423.2 kg/ha | -23.8% |
| 1966 | 559.5 kg/ha | +32.2% |
| 1967 | 571.4 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1968 | 595.2 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1969 | 595.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 599.5 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1971 | 594.8 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1972 | 594.6 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1973 | 603.9 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1974 | 599.3 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1975 | 599.1 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1976 | 607.8 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1977 | 610.5 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1978 | 500 kg/ha | -18.1% |
| 1979 | 570.4 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 1980 | 570.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 557 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1982 | 777.8 kg/ha | +39.6% |
| 1983 | 711.5 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1984 | 710.8 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1985 | 729.3 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1986 | 734 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1987 | 681.4 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1988 | 686.8 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1989 | 689.4 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1990 | 691.6 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1991 | 694.2 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1992 | 651.1 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1993 | 724 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1994 | 636.1 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1995 | 681.4 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1996 | 382.4 kg/ha | -43.9% |
| 1997 | 507.8 kg/ha | +32.8% |
| 1998 | 350.1 kg/ha | -31.1% |
| 1999 | 640.3 kg/ha | +82.9% |
| 2000 | 523 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 2001 | 513.5 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2002 | 505.9 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2003 | 675.6 kg/ha | +33.5% |
| 2004 | 813.2 kg/ha | +20.4% |
| 2005 | 474.4 kg/ha | -41.7% |
| 2006 | 471.1 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2007 | 625.9 kg/ha | +32.9% |
| 2008 | 517.4 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 2009 | 500.7 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2010 | 420.2 kg/ha | -16.1% |
| 2011 | 348.3 kg/ha | -17.1% |
| 2012 | 387.7 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 2013 | 375.5 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2014 | 345.9 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2015 | 311.1 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2016 | 313.1 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2017 | 352.3 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2018 | 410.5 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 2019 | 298.7 kg/ha | -27.2% |
| 2020 | 348.5 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 2021 | 500.6 kg/ha | +43.6% |
| 2022 | 365.6 kg/ha | -27.0% |
| 2023 | 390.6 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2024 | 252.1 kg/ha | -35.5% |
Zimbabwe compared with similar countries
- Zimbabwe's 252.1 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 827.9 kg/ha, 30% of the median. (38 countries reporting)
- Zimbabwe's 252.1 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 715.4 kg/ha, 35% of the median. (40 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Pulses, Total — Yield in Zimbabwe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +82.9% | 350.1 kg/ha | 640.3 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 573.6 kg/ha | 423.2 kg/ha | 654.7 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 587.99 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 610.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 684.84 kg/ha | 557 kg/ha | 777.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 595.9 kg/ha | 350.1 kg/ha | 724 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 562.07 kg/ha | 471.1 kg/ha | 813.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 356.33 kg/ha | 298.7 kg/ha | 420.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 371.48 kg/ha | 252.1 kg/ha | 500.6 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Zimbabwe
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 34.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0947 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 286.19 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8815 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.595 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 9.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 9.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is pulses, total — yield in Zimbabwe?
- Pulses, total — yield in Zimbabwe was 252.1 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pulses, total — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 813.2 kg/ha in 2004.
- What is the lowest pulses, total — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 252.1 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for pulses, total — yield?
- Zimbabwe ranks 167th out of 169 countries with data for 2024.
- Is pulses, total — yield rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 27.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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.