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.
That places Melanesia 16th out of 122 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
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
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Bananas — Production 1.31 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 79,382 ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 2.34 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 2.18 million An (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 16th out of 122 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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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.