Sorghum — Yield in Egypt
Egypt: Sorghum — Yield was 5,200 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Egypt, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sorghum — yield in Egypt stood at 5,200 kg/ha.
The figure is up 0.8% on the previous year and down 4.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Egypt peaked at 5,796 kg/ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 3,449 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Egypt 9th out of 122 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,783 kg/ha | 3,449 kg/ha | 4,085 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,924 kg/ha | 3,717 kg/ha | 4,168 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,949 kg/ha | 3,667 kg/ha | 4,558 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,000 kg/ha | 4,352 kg/ha | 5,769 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,689 kg/ha | 5,529 kg/ha | 5,796 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,164 kg/ha | 4,796 kg/ha | 5,416 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,117 kg/ha | 4,945 kg/ha | 5,264 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Egypt
- 6 Philippines 6,267 kg/ha compare
- 7 Uzbekistan 6,154 kg/ha compare
- 8 Italy 5,916 kg/ha compare
- 10 Panama 5,186 kg/ha compare
- 11 China, mainland 4,770 kg/ha compare
- 12 China 4,758 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Egypt
- Agriculture share gdp 16.55 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.55 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
- Rural population 57.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 67.58 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 60.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.25 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Egypt?
- Sorghum — yield in Egypt was 5,200 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 5,796 kg/ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,449 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Egypt rank for sorghum — yield?
- Egypt ranks 9th out of 122 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt 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.