Rice — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Rice — Yield was 2,861 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for rice — yield in Southern Africa is 2,861 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 3,588 kg/ha in 1990 and was at its lowest, 1,897 kg/ha, in 1961.
Southern Africa ranks 23rd of 27 groups 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 Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,897 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,035 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1963 | 2,296 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 1964 | 2,240 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1965 | 2,269 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1966 | 2,436 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1967 | 2,323 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1968 | 2,091 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1969 | 2,418 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 1970 | 2,522 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1971 | 2,482 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1972 | 2,881 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 1973 | 2,868 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1974 | 2,749 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1975 | 2,546 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 1976 | 2,552 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1977 | 2,500 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1978 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 2,400 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1982 | 2,559 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1983 | 2,611 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1984 | 3,495 kg/ha | +33.8% |
| 1985 | 3,529 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1986 | 3,529 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 3,529 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 3,529 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 3,529 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 3,588 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1991 | 3,285 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1992 | 2,834 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 1993 | 2,513 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1994 | 2,536 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1995 | 2,578 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1996 | 2,325 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 1997 | 2,412 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1998 | 2,326 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1999 | 2,320 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2000 | 2,339 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2001 | 2,350 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2002 | 2,447 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2003 | 2,488 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2004 | 2,529 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2005 | 2,565 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2006 | 2,602 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2007 | 2,630 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2008 | 2,680 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2009 | 2,696 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 2,723 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 2,747 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 2,848 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2013 | 2,743 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2014 | 2,787 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2015 | 2,845 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2016 | 2,843 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 2,836 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2018 | 2,907 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2019 | 2,999 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2020 | 2,849 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2021 | 2,849 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 2,858 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 2,860 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 2,861 kg/ha | +0.0% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Rice — Yield in Southern Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | +33.8% | 2,611 kg/ha | 3,495 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,223 kg/ha | 1,897 kg/ha | 2,436 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,610 kg/ha | 2,482 kg/ha | 2,881 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,121 kg/ha | 2,400 kg/ha | 3,529 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,672 kg/ha | 2,320 kg/ha | 3,588 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,533 kg/ha | 2,339 kg/ha | 2,696 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,828 kg/ha | 2,723 kg/ha | 2,999 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,856 kg/ha | 2,849 kg/ha | 2,861 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Southern Africa?
- Rice — yield in Southern Africa was 2,861 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 3,588 kg/ha in 1990.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,897 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Southern Africa rank for rice — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 23rd out of 27 groups with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern Africa 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.