Sorghum — Yield in Northern America
Northern America: Sorghum — Yield was 3,851 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Northern America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Northern America recorded 3,851 kg/ha for sorghum — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 18.1% on the previous year and down 9.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Northern America peaked at 4,891 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 2,579 kg/ha, in 2022.
Northern America ranks 5th of 27 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sorghum — Yield in Northern America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,744 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,768 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1963 | 2,757 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1964 | 2,618 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1965 | 3,240 kg/ha | +23.8% |
| 1966 | 3,503 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1967 | 3,163 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1968 | 3,305 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1969 | 3,410 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1970 | 3,160 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1971 | 3,375 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1972 | 3,807 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 1973 | 3,691 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1974 | 2,830 kg/ha | -23.3% |
| 1975 | 3,074 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1976 | 3,084 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1977 | 3,553 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 1978 | 3,423 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1979 | 3,928 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 1980 | 2,906 kg/ha | -26.0% |
| 1981 | 4,020 kg/ha | +38.3% |
| 1982 | 3,708 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1983 | 3,060 kg/ha | -17.5% |
| 1984 | 3,541 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 1985 | 4,190 kg/ha | +18.3% |
| 1986 | 4,252 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1987 | 4,356 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1988 | 4,003 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1989 | 3,479 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 1990 | 3,959 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 1991 | 3,719 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1992 | 4,558 kg/ha | +22.5% |
| 1993 | 3,760 kg/ha | -17.5% |
| 1994 | 4,563 kg/ha | +21.3% |
| 1995 | 3,488 kg/ha | -23.6% |
| 1996 | 4,226 kg/ha | +21.2% |
| 1997 | 4,342 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1998 | 4,226 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1999 | 4,372 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2000 | 3,823 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 2001 | 3,761 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2002 | 3,178 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 2003 | 3,310 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2004 | 4,369 kg/ha | +32.0% |
| 2005 | 4,298 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2006 | 3,519 kg/ha | -18.1% |
| 2007 | 4,597 kg/ha | +30.6% |
| 2008 | 4,085 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 2009 | 4,353 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2010 | 4,512 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2011 | 3,389 kg/ha | -24.9% |
| 2012 | 3,113 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2013 | 3,740 kg/ha | +20.1% |
| 2014 | 4,242 kg/ha | +13.4% |
| 2015 | 4,771 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2016 | 4,891 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2017 | 4,503 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2018 | 4,527 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 4,584 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 4,595 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 4,331 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 2022 | 2,579 kg/ha | -40.4% |
| 2023 | 3,262 kg/ha | +26.5% |
| 2024 | 3,851 kg/ha | +18.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,056 kg/ha | 2,618 kg/ha | 3,503 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,393 kg/ha | 2,830 kg/ha | 3,928 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,751 kg/ha | 2,906 kg/ha | 4,356 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,121 kg/ha | 3,488 kg/ha | 4,563 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,929 kg/ha | 3,178 kg/ha | 4,597 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,227 kg/ha | 3,113 kg/ha | 4,891 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,723 kg/ha | 2,579 kg/ha | 4,595 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
- 2 Jordan 19,954 kg/ha compare
- 2 Melanesia 4,424 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
- 6 Uzbekistan 6,154 kg/ha compare
- 6 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2,251 kg/ha compare
- 7 Italy 5,916 kg/ha compare
- 7 Syrian Arab Republic 2,013 kg/ha compare
- 8 Egypt 5,200 kg/ha compare
- 8 Republic of Moldova 1,726 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Northern America
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual growth 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production, annual -0.3573 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing -3.31 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual 0.5317 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production, annual growth rate 1.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 0.7404 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 7.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production, annual growth rate 1.72 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual growth 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass 2.96 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Northern America?
- Sorghum — yield in Northern America was 3,851 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 4,891 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,579 kg/ha in 2022.
- How does Northern America rank for sorghum — yield?
- Northern America ranks 5th out of 27 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 9.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Northern America 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.