Rice — Yield in Senegal
Senegal: Rice — Yield was 3,851 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Senegal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Senegal recorded 3,851 kg/ha for rice — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.9% on the previous year and down 7.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Senegal peaked at 4,142 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 683.4 kg/ha, in 1972.
That places Senegal 69th out of 127 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 1,300 kg/ha | 902.5 kg/ha | 1,520 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,199 kg/ha | 683.4 kg/ha | 1,607 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,823 kg/ha | 962.5 kg/ha | 2,121 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,392 kg/ha | 2,016 kg/ha | 2,800 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,646 kg/ha | 2,240 kg/ha | 3,602 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,752 kg/ha | 3,306 kg/ha | 4,142 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,684 kg/ha | 3,343 kg/ha | 3,851 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Senegal
- Agriculture share gdp 17.08 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 17.08 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 44.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.1% (2025)
- Rural population 8.37 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 17.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.32 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 38,625 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Senegal?
- Rice — yield in Senegal was 3,851 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Senegal?
- The highest recorded value was 4,142 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Senegal?
- The lowest recorded value was 683.4 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Senegal rank for rice — yield?
- Senegal ranks 69th out of 127 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Senegal?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Senegal 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.