Rice — Yield in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Rice — Yield was 1,409 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Sierra Leone, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, rice — yield in Sierra Leone stood at 1,409 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 6.6% on the previous year and down 13.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Sierra Leone peaked at 2,110 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 785.6 kg/ha, in 2018.
That places Sierra Leone 100th out of 114 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Rice — Yield in Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 932.9 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,235 kg/ha | +32.4% |
| 1963 | 1,254 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1964 | 1,413 kg/ha | +12.7% |
| 1965 | 1,326 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1966 | 1,327 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1967 | 1,337 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1968 | 1,332 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1969 | 1,636 kg/ha | +22.8% |
| 1970 | 1,377 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 1971 | 1,303 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1972 | 1,376 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1973 | 1,365 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1974 | 1,402 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1975 | 1,502 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1976 | 1,450 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1977 | 1,463 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1978 | 1,459 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1979 | 1,250 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1980 | 1,251 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1981 | 1,250 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1982 | 1,309 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1983 | 1,244 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1984 | 1,581 kg/ha | +27.1% |
| 1985 | 1,265 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1986 | 1,545 kg/ha | +22.1% |
| 1987 | 1,303 kg/ha | -15.6% |
| 1988 | 1,271 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1989 | 1,284 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1990 | 1,283 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1991 | 1,350 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1992 | 1,350 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 1,273 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1994 | 1,234 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1995 | 1,295 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1996 | 1,354 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1997 | 1,300 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1998 | 1,153 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1999 | 1,160 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2000 | 1,087 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2001 | 1,000 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2002 | 1,005 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 1,013 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 1,004 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2005 | 1,135 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 2006 | 1,432 kg/ha | +26.1% |
| 2007 | 1,360 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2008 | 1,430 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2009 | 1,780 kg/ha | +24.5% |
| 2010 | 1,870 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2011 | 1,870 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1,590 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 2013 | 1,870 kg/ha | +17.6% |
| 2014 | 1,623 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 2015 | 1,441 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 2016 | 1,144 kg/ha | -20.6% |
| 2017 | 1,149 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 785.6 kg/ha | -31.6% |
| 2019 | 1,574 kg/ha | +100.4% |
| 2020 | 1,737 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 2021 | 2,095 kg/ha | +20.6% |
| 2022 | 2,110 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2023 | 1,508 kg/ha | -28.5% |
| 2024 | 1,409 kg/ha | -6.6% |
Sierra Leone compared with similar countries
- Sierra Leone's 1,409 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 1,516 kg/ha, 93% of the median. (20 countries reporting)
- Sierra Leone's 1,409 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 2,000 kg/ha, 70% of the median. (37 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Rice — Yield in Sierra Leone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | +100.4% | 785.6 kg/ha | 1,574 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,310 kg/ha | 932.9 kg/ha | 1,636 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,395 kg/ha | 1,250 kg/ha | 1,502 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,330 kg/ha | 1,244 kg/ha | 1,581 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,275 kg/ha | 1,153 kg/ha | 1,354 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,225 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,780 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,492 kg/ha | 785.6 kg/ha | 1,870 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,772 kg/ha | 1,409 kg/ha | 2,110 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2954 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 250 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5407 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 29.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 29.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Sierra Leone?
- Rice — yield in Sierra Leone was 1,409 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 2,110 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 785.6 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for rice — yield?
- Sierra Leone ranks 100th out of 114 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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.