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 97th of 114 countries 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 Malawi, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 717.9 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 766.8 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1963 | 1,034 kg/ha | +34.9% |
| 1964 | 971.4 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1965 | 907.2 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1966 | 674.8 kg/ha | -25.6% |
| 1967 | 759.5 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 1968 | 827.3 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1969 | 1,075 kg/ha | +29.9% |
| 1970 | 1,111 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1971 | 962.5 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1972 | 992.9 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1973 | 1,700 kg/ha | +71.2% |
| 1974 | 1,452 kg/ha | -14.6% |
| 1975 | 1,925 kg/ha | +32.5% |
| 1976 | 2,000 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1977 | 1,889 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1978 | 1,957 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1979 | 977.8 kg/ha | -50.0% |
| 1980 | 904.8 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1981 | 1,576 kg/ha | +74.2% |
| 1982 | 1,644 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1983 | 1,278 kg/ha | -22.3% |
| 1984 | 1,592 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 1985 | 1,647 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1986 | 1,635 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1987 | 1,490 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1988 | 1,426 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1989 | 1,787 kg/ha | +25.2% |
| 1990 | 1,490 kg/ha | -16.6% |
| 1991 | 1,924 kg/ha | +29.1% |
| 1992 | 1,305 kg/ha | -32.2% |
| 1993 | 1,683 kg/ha | +29.0% |
| 1994 | 1,520 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1995 | 1,564 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1996 | 1,762 kg/ha | +12.7% |
| 1997 | 1,627 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1998 | 1,641 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1999 | 2,028 kg/ha | +23.6% |
| 2000 | 1,645 kg/ha | -18.9% |
| 2001 | 1,858 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 2002 | 1,642 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 2003 | 1,621 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2004 | 1,168 kg/ha | -27.9% |
| 2005 | 842.4 kg/ha | -27.9% |
| 2006 | 1,758 kg/ha | +108.6% |
| 2007 | 1,948 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 2008 | 1,820 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2009 | 2,126 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 2010 | 1,863 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 2011 | 1,912 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2012 | 1,845 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2013 | 1,917 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2014 | 1,958 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2015 | 1,695 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 2016 | 1,560 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2017 | 1,866 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 2018 | 1,756 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2019 | 1,881 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2020 | 1,999 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2021 | 2,040 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2022 | 1,796 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 2023 | 1,571 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2024 | 1,586 kg/ha | +0.9% |
Malawi compared with similar countries
- Malawi's 1,586 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 1,516 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (20 countries reporting)
- Malawi's 1,586 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 2,000 kg/ha, 79% of the median. (37 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Rice — Yield in Malawi changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | +108.6% | 842.4 kg/ha | 1,758 kg/ha |
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
- 94 Solomon Islands 1,866 kg/ha compare
- 95 Togo 1,739 kg/ha compare
- 96 French Guiana 1,706 kg/ha compare
- 98 Guinea 1,512 kg/ha compare
- 99 Guinea-Bissau 1,447 kg/ha compare
- 100 Sierra Leone 1,409 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 24.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3003 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 201.66 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.19 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0012 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8241 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 30.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (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 97th out of 114 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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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.