Soya beans — Yield in Ghana
Ghana: Soya beans — Yield was 1,862 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Soya beans — Yield in Ghana, 2008–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for soya beans — yield in Ghana is 1,862 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 14.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in Ghana peaked at 1,889 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 1,587 kg/ha, in 2008.
That places Ghana 49th out of 98 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Soya beans — Yield in Ghana, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 1,587 kg/ha | — |
| 2009 | 1,596 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 1,606 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2011 | 1,610 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 1,621 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 1,636 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2014 | 1,628 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2015 | 1,650 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2016 | 1,648 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 1,676 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2018 | 1,716 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2019 | 1,723 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2020 | 1,802 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2021 | 1,730 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2022 | 1,889 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 2023 | 1,857 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2024 | 1,862 kg/ha | +0.3% |
Ghana compared with similar countries
- Ghana's 1,862 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 1,170 kg/ha, 1.6× the median. (23 countries reporting)
- Ghana's 1,862 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,022 kg/ha, 1.8× the median. (21 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1,592 kg/ha | 1,587 kg/ha | 1,596 kg/ha | 2 |
| 2010s | 1,651 kg/ha | 1,606 kg/ha | 1,723 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,828 kg/ha | 1,730 kg/ha | 1,889 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ghana
More agriculture & rural data for Ghana
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 41.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2128 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 692.99 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4821 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4108 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is soya beans — yield in Ghana?
- Soya beans — yield in Ghana was 1,862 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 1,889 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,587 kg/ha in 2008.
- How does Ghana rank for soya beans — yield?
- Ghana ranks 49th out of 98 countries with data for 2024.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Soya beans — 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.