Rice — Yield in Malawi
Malawi: Rice — Yield was 1,586 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Malawi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 1,586 kg/ha for rice — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.9% on the previous year and down 19.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Malawi peaked at 2,126 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 674.8 kg/ha, in 1966.
Malawi ranks 110th of 127 countries on this measure, in the bottom 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 | 859.33 kg/ha | 674.8 kg/ha | 1,075 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,497 kg/ha | 962.5 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,498 kg/ha | 904.8 kg/ha | 1,787 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,654 kg/ha | 1,305 kg/ha | 2,028 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,643 kg/ha | 842.4 kg/ha | 2,126 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,825 kg/ha | 1,560 kg/ha | 1,958 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,798 kg/ha | 1,571 kg/ha | 2,040 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 108 Togo 1,739 kg/ha compare
- 109 French Guiana 1,706 kg/ha compare
- 111 Guinea 1,512 kg/ha compare
- 112 Guinea-Bissau 1,447 kg/ha compare
- 113 Sierra Leone 1,409 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture share gdp 30.03 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 30.03 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 82.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.2% (2025)
- Rural population 18.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.13 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Malawi?
- Rice — yield in Malawi was 1,586 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 2,126 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 674.8 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Malawi rank for rice — yield?
- Malawi ranks 110th out of 127 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is down 19.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malawi 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.