Sorghum — Yield in Uruguay
Uruguay: Sorghum — Yield was 3,261 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Uruguay, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sorghum — yield in Uruguay is 3,261 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 272.3% on the previous year and down 18.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Uruguay peaked at 4,761 kg/ha in 2009 and was at its lowest, 411.7 kg/ha, in 1966.
That places Uruguay 26th out of 122 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 923.01 kg/ha | 411.7 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,637 kg/ha | 1,144 kg/ha | 2,191 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,343 kg/ha | 1,692 kg/ha | 2,941 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,083 kg/ha | 2,268 kg/ha | 3,572 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,772 kg/ha | 1,605 kg/ha | 4,761 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,965 kg/ha | 2,639 kg/ha | 4,553 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,391 kg/ha | 875.9 kg/ha | 4,491 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Uruguay
- Agriculture share gdp 6.38 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.38 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 4.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 147,108 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.45 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 3,350 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Uruguay?
- Sorghum — yield in Uruguay was 3,261 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Uruguay?
- The highest recorded value was 4,761 kg/ha in 2009.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Uruguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 411.7 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Uruguay rank for sorghum — yield?
- Uruguay ranks 26th out of 122 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Uruguay?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Uruguay 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.