Sorghum — Yield in Peru
Peru: Sorghum — Yield was 4,000 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Peru, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sorghum — yield in Peru stood at 4,000 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 6.8% on the previous year and down 9.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Peru peaked at 5,329 kg/ha in 2006 and was at its lowest, 1,637 kg/ha, in 1967.
Peru ranks 19th of 122 countries on this measure, 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 | 2,020 kg/ha | 1,637 kg/ha | 2,870 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,311 kg/ha | 3,005 kg/ha | 3,700 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,280 kg/ha | 2,879 kg/ha | 3,649 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,886 kg/ha | 2,553 kg/ha | 5,308 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,974 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 5,329 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,703 kg/ha | 2,941 kg/ha | 4,403 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,011 kg/ha | 3,613 kg/ha | 4,408 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Peru
- Agriculture share gdp 7.47 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.47 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 14.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 4.98 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 7.5% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.80 billion current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.34 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Peru?
- Sorghum — yield in Peru was 4,000 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Peru?
- The highest recorded value was 5,329 kg/ha in 2006.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Peru?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,637 kg/ha in 1967.
- How does Peru rank for sorghum — yield?
- Peru ranks 19th out of 122 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Peru?
- Over the last ten years it is down 9.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Peru 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.