Rice — Yield in Ghana
Ghana: Rice — Yield was 3,640 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Ghana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, rice — yield in Ghana stood at 3,640 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 11.8% on the previous year and up 35.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Ghana peaked at 3,735 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 590.2 kg/ha, in 1982.
Ghana ranks 73rd of 127 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,139 kg/ha | 1,004 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 924.92 kg/ha | 845 kg/ha | 1,096 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,023 kg/ha | 590.2 kg/ha | 1,834 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,816 kg/ha | 1,485 kg/ha | 2,050 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,130 kg/ha | 1,702 kg/ha | 2,411 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,851 kg/ha | 2,350 kg/ha | 3,735 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,360 kg/ha | 3,202 kg/ha | 3,640 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ghana
More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture share gdp 21.28 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 21.28 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
- Rural population 41.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 14.40 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 24.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 135,063 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Ghana?
- Rice — yield in Ghana was 3,640 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 3,735 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 590.2 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Ghana rank for rice — yield?
- Ghana ranks 73rd out of 127 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 35.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana 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.