Sorghum — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Sorghum — Yield was 889 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sorghum — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) is 889 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.6% on the previous year and down 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 954.8 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 580.8 kg/ha, in 1984.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 24th of 27 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sorghum — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 732 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 725.3 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1963 | 758.4 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1964 | 731.4 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1965 | 712.2 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1966 | 689.8 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1967 | 742.5 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1968 | 684 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1969 | 716.3 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1970 | 715.7 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1971 | 730 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1972 | 695.3 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1973 | 695.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 716.3 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1975 | 745.2 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1976 | 764.4 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1977 | 702.3 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1978 | 755.8 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1979 | 755.6 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1980 | 798.6 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1981 | 814.8 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1982 | 698.4 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1983 | 667.9 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1984 | 580.8 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 1985 | 698.6 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 1986 | 752.5 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1987 | 645.9 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 1988 | 782.1 kg/ha | +21.1% |
| 1989 | 650.2 kg/ha | -16.9% |
| 1990 | 595 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1991 | 695.7 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1992 | 649.5 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1993 | 641.1 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1994 | 614.5 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1995 | 669.6 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1996 | 716.3 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1997 | 618 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 1998 | 718.3 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 1999 | 686.1 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2000 | 671.7 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2001 | 755.7 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2002 | 709.5 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 2003 | 773.2 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 2004 | 769.4 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 683.5 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 2006 | 787.3 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 2007 | 833.9 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2008 | 778 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2009 | 811.5 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2010 | 819.7 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 812.7 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2012 | 909.8 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 2013 | 855.2 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2014 | 922.4 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 2015 | 916.6 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2016 | 881 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2017 | 896.5 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2018 | 944.6 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2019 | 927.7 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2020 | 954.8 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2021 | 831.3 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 2022 | 922.6 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 2023 | 866.5 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 2024 | 889 kg/ha | +2.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 721.32 kg/ha | 684 kg/ha | 758.4 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 727.59 kg/ha | 695.3 kg/ha | 764.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 708.98 kg/ha | 580.8 kg/ha | 814.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 660.41 kg/ha | 595 kg/ha | 718.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 757.37 kg/ha | 671.7 kg/ha | 833.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 888.62 kg/ha | 812.7 kg/ha | 944.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 892.84 kg/ha | 831.3 kg/ha | 954.8 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Sorghum — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 889 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 954.8 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 580.8 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for sorghum — yield?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 24th out of 27 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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.