Seed cotton, unginned — Yield in Botswana
Botswana: Seed cotton, unginned — Yield was 1,934 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Seed cotton, unginned — Yield in Botswana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for seed cotton, unginned — yield in Botswana is 1,934 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and down 3.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, seed cotton, unginned — yield in Botswana peaked at 6,363 kg/ha in 1966 and was at its lowest, 1,759 kg/ha, in 1970.
Botswana ranks 33rd of 104 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,882 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 6,363 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,654 kg/ha | 1,759 kg/ha | 2,869 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,727 kg/ha | 2,727 kg/ha | 2,727 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,586 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 2,698 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,561 kg/ha | 2,727 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,189 kg/ha | 1,870 kg/ha | 3,039 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,938 kg/ha | 1,922 kg/ha | 1,956 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Botswana
- Agriculture share gdp 1.78 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.78 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2023)
- Rural population 32.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.1% (2025)
- Rural population 821,007 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 354.96 million current US$ (2025)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,023 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is seed cotton, unginned — yield in Botswana?
- Seed cotton, unginned — yield in Botswana was 1,934 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest seed cotton, unginned — yield recorded in Botswana?
- The highest recorded value was 6,363 kg/ha in 1966.
- What is the lowest seed cotton, unginned — yield recorded in Botswana?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,759 kg/ha in 1970.
- How does Botswana rank for seed cotton, unginned — yield?
- Botswana ranks 33rd out of 104 countries with data for 2024.
- Is seed cotton, unginned — yield rising or falling in Botswana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Botswana data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Seed cotton, unginned — 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.