Sour cherries — Yield in Portugal
Portugal: Sour cherries — Yield was 333.3 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sour cherries — Yield in Portugal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sour cherries — yield in Portugal is 333.3 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is down 80.4% on the previous year and down 86.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sour cherries — yield in Portugal peaked at 4,649 kg/ha in 1971 and was at its lowest, 333.3 kg/ha, in 2024.
That places Portugal 37th out of 38 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.
Sour cherries — Yield in Portugal, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,195 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,857 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1963 | 2,857 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 2,857 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 2,857 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 2,857 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 2,778 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1968 | 1,766 kg/ha | -36.4% |
| 1969 | 3,493 kg/ha | +97.8% |
| 1970 | 4,627 kg/ha | +32.4% |
| 1971 | 4,649 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1972 | 4,411 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1973 | 2,389 kg/ha | -45.8% |
| 1974 | 2,533 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1975 | 2,600 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1976 | 3,668 kg/ha | +41.1% |
| 1977 | 2,060 kg/ha | -43.8% |
| 1978 | 1,839 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 1979 | 2,241 kg/ha | +21.9% |
| 1980 | 2,112 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1981 | 1,843 kg/ha | -12.7% |
| 1982 | 1,872 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1983 | 1,799 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1984 | 1,656 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1985 | 1,784 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1986 | 1,409 kg/ha | -21.0% |
| 1987 | 1,186 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 1988 | 800 kg/ha | -32.5% |
| 1989 | 1,250 kg/ha | +56.2% |
| 1990 | 1,223 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1991 | 1,562 kg/ha | +27.8% |
| 1992 | 1,454 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1993 | 1,329 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1994 | 1,280 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1995 | 1,450 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 1996 | 1,511 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1997 | 2,298 kg/ha | +52.1% |
| 1998 | 1,514 kg/ha | -34.1% |
| 1999 | 2,102 kg/ha | +38.8% |
| 2000 | 2,058 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2001 | 1,200 kg/ha | -41.7% |
| 2002 | 1,200 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 1,225 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2004 | 1,250 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2005 | 1,500 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 2006 | 1,349 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2007 | 1,163 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 2008 | 1,227 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2009 | 2,046 kg/ha | +66.7% |
| 2010 | 2,143 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2011 | 2,238 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2012 | 2,143 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2013 | 2,372 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 2014 | 2,397 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 2,418 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2016 | 2,343 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2017 | 2,357 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2018 | 1,667 kg/ha | -29.3% |
| 2019 | 2,000 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 2020 | 1,800 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 2021 | 2,300 kg/ha | +27.8% |
| 2022 | 1,900 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 2023 | 1,700 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 2024 | 333.3 kg/ha | -80.4% |
Portugal compared with similar countries
- Portugal's 333.3 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 3,750 kg/ha, 9% of the median. (21 countries reporting)
- Portugal's 333.3 kg/ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 4,454 kg/ha, 7% of the median. (29 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sour cherries — Yield in Portugal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | +97.8% | 1,766 kg/ha | 3,493 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,835 kg/ha | 1,766 kg/ha | 3,493 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,102 kg/ha | 1,839 kg/ha | 4,649 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,571 kg/ha | 800 kg/ha | 2,112 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,573 kg/ha | 1,223 kg/ha | 2,298 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,422 kg/ha | 1,163 kg/ha | 2,058 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,208 kg/ha | 1,667 kg/ha | 2,418 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,607 kg/ha | 333.3 kg/ha | 2,300 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Portugal
More agriculture & rural data for Portugal
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.28 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0196 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 628.85 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5936 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.385 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sour cherries — yield in Portugal?
- Sour cherries — yield in Portugal was 333.3 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sour cherries — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The highest recorded value was 4,649 kg/ha in 1971.
- What is the lowest sour cherries — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The lowest recorded value was 333.3 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Portugal rank for sour cherries — yield?
- Portugal ranks 37th out of 38 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sour cherries — yield rising or falling in Portugal?
- Over the last ten years it is down 86.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Portugal data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sour cherries — 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.