Soya beans — Yield in Malawi
Malawi: Soya beans — Yield was 1,173 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Soya beans — Yield in Malawi, 2003–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Malawi recorded 1,173 kg/ha for soya beans — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 27.0% on the previous year and up 8.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in Malawi peaked at 1,259 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 579.7 kg/ha, in 2005.
Malawi ranks 68th of 98 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 22 years of available data.
Soya beans — Yield in Malawi, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 759.3 kg/ha | — |
| 2004 | 644.7 kg/ha | -15.1% |
| 2005 | 579.7 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2006 | 763.9 kg/ha | +31.8% |
| 2007 | 897.2 kg/ha | +17.4% |
| 2008 | 872.2 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2009 | 980.4 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 2010 | 975.7 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2011 | 997.7 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2012 | 1,043 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2013 | 979.1 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 2014 | 1,084 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 2015 | 870.1 kg/ha | -19.8% |
| 2016 | 884.6 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2017 | 1,105 kg/ha | +24.9% |
| 2018 | 981.3 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 2019 | 990.4 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2020 | 1,259 kg/ha | +27.1% |
| 2021 | 1,221 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2022 | 1,234 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2023 | 923.5 kg/ha | -25.2% |
| 2024 | 1,173 kg/ha | +27.0% |
Malawi compared with similar countries
- Malawi's 1,173 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 688.4 kg/ha, 1.7× the median. (10 countries reporting)
- Malawi's 1,173 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,022 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (21 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 785.34 kg/ha | 579.7 kg/ha | 980.4 kg/ha | 7 |
| 2010s | 991.16 kg/ha | 870.1 kg/ha | 1,105 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,162 kg/ha | 923.5 kg/ha | 1,259 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 65 Ecuador 1,318 kg/ha compare
- 66 Czechoslovakia 1,288 kg/ha
- 67 Nepal 1,265 kg/ha compare
- 69 India 1,170 kg/ha compare
- 70 Mozambique 1,167 kg/ha compare
- 71 Burkina Faso 1,162 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 24.6 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.3003 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 201.66 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 2.19 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0012 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.8241 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 30.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is soya beans — yield in Malawi?
- Soya beans — yield in Malawi was 1,173 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 1,259 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 579.7 kg/ha in 2005.
- How does Malawi rank for soya beans — yield?
- Malawi ranks 68th out of 98 countries with data for 2024.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malawi 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.