Rice — Yield in Guyana
Guyana: Rice — Yield was 6,654 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Guyana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Guyana recorded 6,654 kg/ha for rice — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 5.3% on the previous year and up 26.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Guyana peaked at 6,654 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,531 kg/ha, in 1968.
That places Guyana 19th out of 127 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 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 | 1,948 kg/ha | 1,531 kg/ha | 2,229 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,182 kg/ha | 1,784 kg/ha | 2,666 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,184 kg/ha | 2,971 kg/ha | 3,401 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,675 kg/ha | 3,033 kg/ha | 4,040 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,209 kg/ha | 3,868 kg/ha | 4,626 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,173 kg/ha | 4,233 kg/ha | 5,905 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,044 kg/ha | 5,520 kg/ha | 6,654 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Guyana
- Agriculture share gdp 7.73 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.73 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 73.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 614,522 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 7.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 21,136 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Guyana?
- Rice — yield in Guyana was 6,654 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Guyana?
- The highest recorded value was 6,654 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Guyana?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,531 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Guyana rank for rice — yield?
- Guyana ranks 19th out of 127 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Guyana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 26.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guyana 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.