Sorghum — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Sorghum — Yield was 1,352 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 1,352 kg/ha for sorghum — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.2% on the previous year and down 3.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 1,633 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 701.1 kg/ha, in 1968.
Eastern Africa ranks 16th of 27 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sorghum — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 752.9 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 795.8 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1963 | 791.7 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1964 | 773.2 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1965 | 773.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 761.1 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1967 | 757.7 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1968 | 701.1 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1969 | 718.2 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1970 | 807.8 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1971 | 800.4 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1972 | 825.3 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1973 | 827.4 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1974 | 782.7 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1975 | 783.7 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1976 | 823.7 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1977 | 784.9 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1978 | 791.7 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1979 | 978.2 kg/ha | +23.6% |
| 1980 | 1,016 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1981 | 950.2 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1982 | 1,025 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1983 | 984.8 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1984 | 889.2 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1985 | 850.5 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1986 | 893.4 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1987 | 878.1 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1988 | 863.9 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1989 | 948.4 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1990 | 970.1 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1991 | 915.7 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1992 | 793.2 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1993 | 926.1 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 1994 | 726.7 kg/ha | -21.5% |
| 1995 | 955.8 kg/ha | +31.5% |
| 1996 | 1,013 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1997 | 936.7 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1998 | 930.6 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1999 | 940.7 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 859.1 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 2001 | 955.3 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 2002 | 961.1 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2003 | 914.8 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2004 | 940.8 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2005 | 989.2 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2006 | 1,021 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2007 | 1,145 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2008 | 1,058 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2009 | 1,055 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2010 | 1,255 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 2011 | 1,275 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2012 | 1,240 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2013 | 1,247 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 1,405 kg/ha | +12.7% |
| 2015 | 1,459 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2016 | 1,435 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2017 | 1,528 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2018 | 1,590 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2019 | 1,633 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2020 | 1,613 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2021 | 1,450 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2022 | 1,366 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2023 | 1,411 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2024 | 1,352 kg/ha | -4.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 758.32 kg/ha | 701.1 kg/ha | 795.8 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 820.58 kg/ha | 782.7 kg/ha | 978.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 929.98 kg/ha | 850.5 kg/ha | 1,025 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 910.89 kg/ha | 726.7 kg/ha | 1,013 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 989.84 kg/ha | 859.1 kg/ha | 1,145 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,407 kg/ha | 1,240 kg/ha | 1,633 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,438 kg/ha | 1,352 kg/ha | 1,613 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Sorghum — yield in Eastern Africa was 1,352 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,633 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 701.1 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for sorghum — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 16th out of 27 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa 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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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.