Sorghum — Yield in Maldives
Maldives: Sorghum — Yield was 1,232 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Maldives, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sorghum — yield in Maldives is 1,232 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 63 years on record.
The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 8.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Maldives peaked at 1,232 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 909.1 kg/ha, in 2005.
Maldives ranks 65th of 111 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Sorghum — Yield in Maldives, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 1,041 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1998 | 1,052 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1999 | 1,065 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2000 | 1,076 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2001 | 1,096 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2002 | 1,099 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2003 | 1,100 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2004 | 1,150 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2005 | 909.1 kg/ha | -20.9% |
| 2006 | 1,222 kg/ha | +34.4% |
| 2007 | 1,217 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2008 | 1,222 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2009 | 1,158 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2010 | 1,156 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 1,155 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,136 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2013 | 1,136 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 1,136 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1,168 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2016 | 1,178 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2017 | 1,195 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2018 | 1,204 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 1,210 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2020 | 1,216 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 1,225 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 1,219 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2023 | 1,225 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 1,232 kg/ha | +0.5% |
Maldives compared with similar countries
- Maldives's 1,232 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 2,374 kg/ha, 52% of the median. (29 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,018 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,065 kg/ha | 9 |
| 2000s | 1,125 kg/ha | 909.1 kg/ha | 1,222 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,168 kg/ha | 1,136 kg/ha | 1,210 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,223 kg/ha | 1,216 kg/ha | 1,232 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Maldives
- 62 Russian Federation 1,268 kg/ha compare
- 63 Ghana 1,260 kg/ha compare
- 64 Guatemala 1,242 kg/ha compare
- 66 Ethiopia PDR 1,225 kg/ha compare
- 67 North Macedonia 1,216 kg/ha compare
- 68 Rwanda 1,214 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Maldives
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 30.99 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0459 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 670.93 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.5233 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5749 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 4.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 4.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Maldives?
- Sorghum — yield in Maldives was 1,232 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 1,232 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 909.1 kg/ha in 2005.
- How does Maldives rank for sorghum — yield?
- Maldives ranks 65th out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Maldives 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.