Sorghum — Yield in Uganda
Uganda: Sorghum — Yield was 703.1 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sorghum — Yield in Uganda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Uganda recorded 703.1 kg/ha for sorghum — yield in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 15.4% on the previous year and down 12.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Uganda peaked at 1,966 kg/ha in 1983 and was at its lowest, 703.1 kg/ha, in 2024.
That places Uganda 91st out of 111 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sorghum — Yield in Uganda, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 945.2 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 945.6 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 949.3 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1964 | 846.9 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1965 | 888.9 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1966 | 915.5 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1967 | 924.1 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1968 | 1,104 kg/ha | +19.5% |
| 1969 | 1,184 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1970 | 1,486 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 1971 | 1,134 kg/ha | -23.7% |
| 1972 | 1,318 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 1973 | 1,355 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1974 | 940.1 kg/ha | -30.6% |
| 1975 | 1,500 kg/ha | +59.6% |
| 1976 | 1,193 kg/ha | -20.5% |
| 1977 | 1,228 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1978 | 1,226 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1979 | 1,690 kg/ha | +37.8% |
| 1980 | 1,790 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1981 | 1,882 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1982 | 1,350 kg/ha | -28.3% |
| 1983 | 1,966 kg/ha | +45.6% |
| 1984 | 1,199 kg/ha | -39.0% |
| 1985 | 1,630 kg/ha | +35.9% |
| 1986 | 1,347 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 1987 | 1,552 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 1988 | 1,476 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1989 | 1,502 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1990 | 1,500 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1991 | 1,482 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1992 | 1,500 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1993 | 1,502 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1994 | 1,500 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1995 | 1,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 1,100 kg/ha | -26.7% |
| 1997 | 1,065 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1998 | 1,500 kg/ha | +40.8% |
| 1999 | 1,502 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 1,289 kg/ha | -14.1% |
| 2001 | 1,500 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 2002 | 1,498 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2003 | 1,452 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2004 | 1,400 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2005 | 1,527 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 2006 | 1,429 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2007 | 1,457 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2008 | 1,066 kg/ha | -26.8% |
| 2009 | 1,101 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2010 | 1,101 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2011 | 1,200 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 2012 | 900.8 kg/ha | -25.0% |
| 2013 | 801.6 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 2014 | 800.7 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 1,100 kg/ha | +37.4% |
| 2016 | 1,113 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2017 | 1,043 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2018 | 1,065 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2019 | 1,003 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2020 | 944.9 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2021 | 899.4 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2022 | 899.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 831.3 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 2024 | 703.1 kg/ha | -15.4% |
Uganda compared with similar countries
- Uganda's 703.1 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 709.65 kg/ha, 99% of the median. (20 countries reporting)
- Uganda's 703.1 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 955.6 kg/ha, 74% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sorghum — Yield in Uganda 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | +59.6% | 940.1 kg/ha | 1,500 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 967.13 kg/ha | 846.9 kg/ha | 1,184 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,307 kg/ha | 940.1 kg/ha | 1,690 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,569 kg/ha | 1,199 kg/ha | 1,966 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,415 kg/ha | 1,065 kg/ha | 1,502 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,372 kg/ha | 1,066 kg/ha | 1,527 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,013 kg/ha | 800.7 kg/ha | 1,200 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 855.62 kg/ha | 703.1 kg/ha | 944.9 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Uganda
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 22.05 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2613 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 315.24 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.75 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6806 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 26.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 26.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Uganda?
- Sorghum — yield in Uganda was 703.1 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Uganda?
- The highest recorded value was 1,966 kg/ha in 1983.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Uganda?
- The lowest recorded value was 703.1 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Uganda rank for sorghum — yield?
- Uganda ranks 91st out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Uganda?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Uganda 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.