Rice — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Rice — Yield was 6,553 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Rice — Yield in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Kenya recorded 6,553 kg/ha for rice — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 11.4% on the previous year and up 65.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Kenya peaked at 6,553 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,308 kg/ha, in 2008.
Kenya ranks 22nd of 127 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,115 kg/ha | 2,270 kg/ha | 5,866 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,166 kg/ha | 4,306 kg/ha | 6,181 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,629 kg/ha | 2,670 kg/ha | 4,049 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,982 kg/ha | 3,098 kg/ha | 4,842 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,098 kg/ha | 1,308 kg/ha | 3,932 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,167 kg/ha | 2,672 kg/ha | 6,426 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,797 kg/ha | 4,345 kg/ha | 6,553 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 67.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 39.00 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.06 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Kenya?
- Rice — yield in Kenya was 6,553 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 6,553 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,308 kg/ha in 2008.
- How does Kenya rank for rice — yield?
- Kenya ranks 22nd out of 127 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 65.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Kenya 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.