Rice — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Rice — Yield was 2,469 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, rice — yield in Eastern Africa stood at 2,469 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.5% on the previous year and down 7.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 2,779 kg/ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 1,486 kg/ha, in 1981.
Eastern Africa ranks 24th of 27 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Rice — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,722 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,734 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1963 | 1,782 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1964 | 1,837 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1965 | 1,808 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1966 | 1,553 kg/ha | -14.1% |
| 1967 | 1,621 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1968 | 1,630 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1969 | 1,731 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1970 | 1,762 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1971 | 1,742 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1972 | 1,746 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1973 | 1,853 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1974 | 1,799 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1975 | 1,730 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1976 | 1,746 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1977 | 1,652 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1978 | 1,614 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1979 | 1,568 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1980 | 1,608 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1981 | 1,486 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1982 | 1,517 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1983 | 1,709 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 1984 | 1,680 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1985 | 1,774 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1986 | 1,838 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1987 | 1,870 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1988 | 1,835 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1989 | 1,951 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1990 | 1,949 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1991 | 1,876 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1992 | 1,803 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1993 | 1,924 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1994 | 1,899 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1995 | 1,892 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1996 | 1,915 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1997 | 1,845 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1998 | 1,715 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1999 | 1,961 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 2000 | 1,900 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2001 | 2,052 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2002 | 1,782 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 2003 | 1,894 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2004 | 1,952 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2005 | 2,045 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2006 | 2,136 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2007 | 2,303 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2008 | 2,173 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2009 | 2,490 kg/ha | +14.6% |
| 2010 | 2,779 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 2011 | 2,636 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2012 | 2,688 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2013 | 2,597 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2014 | 2,662 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2015 | 2,659 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 2,567 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2017 | 2,289 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 2018 | 2,549 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 2019 | 2,403 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2020 | 2,588 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2021 | 2,674 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2022 | 2,720 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2023 | 2,410 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 2024 | 2,469 kg/ha | +2.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,713 kg/ha | 1,553 kg/ha | 1,837 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,721 kg/ha | 1,568 kg/ha | 1,853 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,727 kg/ha | 1,486 kg/ha | 1,951 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,878 kg/ha | 1,715 kg/ha | 1,961 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,073 kg/ha | 1,782 kg/ha | 2,490 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,583 kg/ha | 2,289 kg/ha | 2,779 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,572 kg/ha | 2,410 kg/ha | 2,720 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Rice — yield in Eastern Africa was 2,469 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 2,779 kg/ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,486 kg/ha in 1981.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for rice — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 24th out of 27 groups with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Rice — 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.