Sorghum — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Sorghum — Yield was 970.3 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sorghum — Yield in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sorghum — yield in Kenya is 970.3 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.3% on the previous year and up 16.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Kenya peaked at 1,434 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 291.7 kg/ha, in 1983.
Kenya ranks 91st of 122 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 | 1,090 kg/ha | 1,025 kg/ha | 1,138 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,062 kg/ha | 885.7 kg/ha | 1,122 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 807.16 kg/ha | 291.7 kg/ha | 1,113 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 800.43 kg/ha | 595.4 kg/ha | 1,122 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 780.66 kg/ha | 522.1 kg/ha | 1,223 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 797.97 kg/ha | 629.1 kg/ha | 1,199 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 922.5 kg/ha | 582.1 kg/ha | 1,434 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 67.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 39.00 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.06 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Kenya?
- Sorghum — yield in Kenya was 970.3 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 1,434 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 291.7 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Kenya rank for sorghum — yield?
- Kenya ranks 91st out of 122 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Kenya 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.