Sorghum — Yield in Mozambique
Mozambique: Sorghum — Yield was 606.6 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sorghum — Yield in Mozambique, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sorghum — yield in Mozambique is 606.6 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 2.0% on the previous year and up 15.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Mozambique peaked at 1,000 kg/ha in 1976 and was at its lowest, 168.9 kg/ha, in 1992.
Mozambique ranks 107th of 122 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 809.42 kg/ha | 729.1 kg/ha | 854.5 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 813.36 kg/ha | 546.9 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 590.54 kg/ha | 430 kg/ha | 667.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 475.69 kg/ha | 168.9 kg/ha | 662.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 487.04 kg/ha | 298 kg/ha | 622.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 527.24 kg/ha | 357.2 kg/ha | 690.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 568.6 kg/ha | 540 kg/ha | 606.6 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Mozambique
- Agriculture share gdp 25.57 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 25.57 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 62.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 22.37 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 25.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.71 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 387,740 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Mozambique?
- Sorghum — yield in Mozambique was 606.6 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The highest recorded value was 1,000 kg/ha in 1976.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Mozambique?
- The lowest recorded value was 168.9 kg/ha in 1992.
- How does Mozambique rank for sorghum — yield?
- Mozambique ranks 107th out of 122 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Mozambique?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Mozambique 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.