Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Yield was 8,321 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) recorded 8,321 kg/ha for pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 9.5% on the previous year and up 35.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 9,194 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 5,304 kg/ha, in 2012.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,982 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,286 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1963 | 6,981 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1964 | 7,085 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1965 | 7,726 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1966 | 7,829 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1967 | 7,988 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1968 | 8,406 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1969 | 8,584 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1970 | 9,014 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1971 | 8,870 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1972 | 8,651 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1973 | 8,670 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1974 | 8,769 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1975 | 8,827 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1976 | 8,800 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1977 | 8,774 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1978 | 8,574 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1979 | 8,465 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1980 | 8,275 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1981 | 8,159 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1982 | 8,205 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1983 | 8,179 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1984 | 8,239 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1985 | 8,190 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1986 | 8,288 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1987 | 8,332 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1988 | 8,354 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1989 | 8,169 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1990 | 8,050 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1991 | 7,995 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1992 | 8,075 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1993 | 8,187 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1994 | 8,331 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1995 | 7,786 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1996 | 7,701 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1997 | 7,510 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1998 | 7,364 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1999 | 7,065 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 2000 | 7,175 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2001 | 7,030 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2002 | 6,858 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2003 | 6,896 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2004 | 7,189 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2005 | 6,935 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2006 | 7,278 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2007 | 7,308 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 7,698 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2009 | 7,750 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2010 | 5,325 kg/ha | -31.3% |
| 2011 | 5,433 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2012 | 5,304 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2013 | 5,896 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 2014 | 6,152 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2015 | 6,769 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2016 | 6,601 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2017 | 8,627 kg/ha | +30.7% |
| 2018 | 8,371 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2019 | 8,138 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2020 | 7,505 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 2021 | 8,184 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 2022 | 8,808 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 2023 | 9,194 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2024 | 8,321 kg/ha | -9.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Pumpkins, squash and gourds — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | -31.3% | 7,750 kg/ha | 5,325 kg/ha |
| 2017 | +30.7% | 6,601 kg/ha | 8,627 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,652 kg/ha | 6,981 kg/ha | 8,584 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,741 kg/ha | 8,465 kg/ha | 9,014 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 8,239 kg/ha | 8,159 kg/ha | 8,354 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,806 kg/ha | 7,065 kg/ha | 8,331 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,212 kg/ha | 6,858 kg/ha | 7,750 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,662 kg/ha | 5,304 kg/ha | 8,627 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,403 kg/ha | 7,505 kg/ha | 9,194 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
- 6 Poland 40,495 kg/ha compare
- 6 Micronesia 9,769 kg/ha compare
- 7 Belgium 39,640 kg/ha compare
- 7 Polynesia 9,397 kg/ha compare
- 8 Albania 34,147 kg/ha compare
- 8 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 9,213 kg/ha compare
- 9 Austria 33,582 kg/ha compare
- 10 Republic of Korea 31,322 kg/ha compare
- 10 Türkiye 8,120 kg/ha compare
- 11 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 7,655 kg/ha compare
- 11 Niger 30,498 kg/ha compare
- 12 Greece 30,213 kg/ha compare
- 12 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 6,744 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 8,321 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 9,194 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,304 kg/ha in 2012.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 9th out of 15 groups with data for 2024.
- Is pumpkins, squash and gourds — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 35.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Pumpkins, squash and gourds — 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.