Sorghum — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Sorghum — Yield was 4,424 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sorghum — yield in Melanesia stood at 4,424 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 0.4% on the previous year and up 20.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Melanesia peaked at 4,532 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 838.8 kg/ha, in 1976.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sorghum — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,550 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,141 kg/ha | -26.4% |
| 1963 | 1,214 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1964 | 872.8 kg/ha | -28.1% |
| 1965 | 1,557 kg/ha | +78.4% |
| 1966 | 1,017 kg/ha | -34.7% |
| 1967 | 1,391 kg/ha | +36.7% |
| 1968 | 1,538 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 1969 | 1,109 kg/ha | -27.9% |
| 1970 | 1,658 kg/ha | +49.5% |
| 1971 | 2,178 kg/ha | +31.3% |
| 1972 | 1,769 kg/ha | -18.8% |
| 1973 | 2,589 kg/ha | +46.4% |
| 1974 | 1,904 kg/ha | -26.5% |
| 1975 | 1,546 kg/ha | -18.8% |
| 1976 | 838.8 kg/ha | -45.7% |
| 1977 | 1,006 kg/ha | +19.9% |
| 1978 | 1,711 kg/ha | +70.1% |
| 1979 | 1,850 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1980 | 1,647 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1981 | 1,757 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1982 | 1,188 kg/ha | -32.4% |
| 1983 | 2,248 kg/ha | +89.3% |
| 1984 | 2,004 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1985 | 1,631 kg/ha | -18.6% |
| 1986 | 1,857 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 1987 | 1,827 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1988 | 2,165 kg/ha | +18.5% |
| 1989 | 2,209 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1990 | 3,830 kg/ha | +73.4% |
| 1991 | 2,620 kg/ha | -31.6% |
| 1992 | 2,484 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1993 | 2,323 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1994 | 2,472 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1995 | 2,424 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1996 | 2,778 kg/ha | +14.6% |
| 1997 | 2,971 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1998 | 2,928 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1999 | 3,058 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2000 | 2,987 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2001 | 2,916 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2002 | 2,964 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2003 | 3,053 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2004 | 3,118 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2005 | 3,204 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2006 | 3,302 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2007 | 3,412 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2008 | 3,496 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2009 | 3,812 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 2010 | 3,878 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2011 | 3,827 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2012 | 3,905 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2013 | 3,890 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 3,666 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2015 | 2,736 kg/ha | -25.4% |
| 2016 | 3,053 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 2017 | 3,432 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 2018 | 3,684 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2019 | 4,456 kg/ha | +20.9% |
| 2020 | 4,532 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2021 | 4,432 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2022 | 4,442 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 4,442 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2024 | 4,424 kg/ha | -0.4% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sorghum — Yield in Melanesia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | +89.3% | 1,188 kg/ha | 2,248 kg/ha |
| 1965 | +78.4% | 872.8 kg/ha | 1,557 kg/ha |
| 1990 | +73.4% | 2,209 kg/ha | 3,830 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,266 kg/ha | 872.8 kg/ha | 1,557 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,705 kg/ha | 838.8 kg/ha | 2,589 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,853 kg/ha | 1,188 kg/ha | 2,248 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,789 kg/ha | 2,323 kg/ha | 3,830 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,226 kg/ha | 2,916 kg/ha | 3,812 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,653 kg/ha | 2,736 kg/ha | 4,456 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,455 kg/ha | 4,424 kg/ha | 4,532 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 1 Oman 56,390 kg/ha compare
- 1 Türkiye 8,000 kg/ha compare
- 2 Jordan 19,954 kg/ha compare
- 3 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2,730 kg/ha compare
- 3 Israel 14,268 kg/ha compare
- 4 Austria 6,626 kg/ha compare
- 4 Micronesia (Federated States of) 2,392 kg/ha compare
- 4 Micronesia 2,392 kg/ha compare
- 5 Philippines 6,267 kg/ha compare
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- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4201 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.2146 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 11.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -5.09 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.11 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 21.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -12.17 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Melanesia?
- Sorghum — yield in Melanesia was 4,424 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 4,532 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 838.8 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Melanesia rank for sorghum — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 2nd out of 15 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.