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 100th out of 122 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.
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 |
Countries ranked near Uganda
- 97 Pakistan 827.4 kg/ha compare
- 98 Gambia 752.4 kg/ha compare
- 99 Chad 716.2 kg/ha compare
- 101 Democratic Republic of the Congo 693 kg/ha compare
- 102 Côte d'Ivoire 664.9 kg/ha compare
- 103 Sudan (former) 634.6 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Uganda
- Agriculture share gdp 26.13 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 26.13 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 68.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 34.97 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 26.1% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.20 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 560,000 t (1990)
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 100th out of 122 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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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.