Sorghum — Yield in Colombia
Colombia: Sorghum — Yield was 2,374 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Colombia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sorghum — yield in Colombia stood at 2,374 kg/ha.
The figure is down 4.3% on the previous year and down 21.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Colombia peaked at 5,707 kg/ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 1,953 kg/ha, in 1982.
That places Colombia 43rd out of 122 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 | 2,243 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,327 kg/ha | 2,069 kg/ha | 2,602 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,453 kg/ha | 1,953 kg/ha | 2,910 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,079 kg/ha | 2,848 kg/ha | 3,299 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,488 kg/ha | 2,851 kg/ha | 3,710 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,734 kg/ha | 2,512 kg/ha | 5,707 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,797 kg/ha | 2,374 kg/ha | 4,067 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Colombia
- 40 Micronesia (Federated States of) 2,392 kg/ha compare
- 40 Micronesia 2,392 kg/ha compare
- 42 Paraguay 2,375 kg/ha compare
- 44 Lebanon 2,342 kg/ha compare
- 45 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2,251 kg/ha compare
- 46 Yugoslav SFR 2,134 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Colombia
- Agriculture share gdp 9.95 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.95 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 21.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 11.34 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 45.49 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.64 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Colombia?
- Sorghum — yield in Colombia was 2,374 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Colombia?
- The highest recorded value was 5,707 kg/ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Colombia?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,953 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Colombia rank for sorghum — yield?
- Colombia ranks 43rd out of 122 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Colombia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 21.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Colombia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sorghum — 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.