Soya beans — Yield in Rwanda
Rwanda: Soya beans — Yield was 509.2 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Soya beans — Yield in Rwanda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for soya beans — yield in Rwanda is 509.2 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 21.5% on the previous year and up 7.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in Rwanda peaked at 1,096 kg/ha in 1982 and was at its lowest, 416.3 kg/ha, in 2018.
Rwanda ranks 92nd of 98 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 59 years of available data.
Soya beans — Yield in Rwanda, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 500 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 700 kg/ha | +40.0% |
| 1970 | 800.3 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1971 | 797.4 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1972 | 799.9 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1973 | 797 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1974 | 629.3 kg/ha | -21.0% |
| 1975 | 819 kg/ha | +30.1% |
| 1976 | 837.5 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1977 | 784.3 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1978 | 797.4 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1979 | 750 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1980 | 688.3 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1981 | 862 kg/ha | +25.2% |
| 1982 | 1,096 kg/ha | +27.2% |
| 1983 | 732.4 kg/ha | -33.2% |
| 1984 | 689.2 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1985 | 863.4 kg/ha | +25.3% |
| 1986 | 733.6 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 1987 | 744.1 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1988 | 777.8 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1989 | 1,011 kg/ha | +30.0% |
| 1990 | 673.5 kg/ha | -33.4% |
| 1991 | 720 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1992 | 809.5 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 1993 | 666.7 kg/ha | -17.6% |
| 1994 | 889.4 kg/ha | +33.4% |
| 1995 | 1,035 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 1996 | 485.6 kg/ha | -53.1% |
| 1997 | 492.8 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1998 | 550.5 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1999 | 466.5 kg/ha | -15.3% |
| 2000 | 471.2 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2001 | 552.7 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 2002 | 546.1 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2003 | 552.7 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2004 | 497.2 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 2005 | 562.7 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 2006 | 640.6 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 2007 | 792.6 kg/ha | +23.7% |
| 2008 | 824.8 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2009 | 821.5 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2010 | 789 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2011 | 780 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2012 | 586.2 kg/ha | -24.8% |
| 2013 | 675.5 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 2014 | 474.5 kg/ha | -29.8% |
| 2015 | 472.5 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2016 | 472.4 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2017 | 448.5 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2018 | 416.3 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 2019 | 525.2 kg/ha | +26.2% |
| 2020 | 489.9 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2021 | 499.1 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2022 | 521.9 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2023 | 419 kg/ha | -19.7% |
| 2024 | 509.2 kg/ha | +21.5% |
Rwanda compared with similar countries
- Rwanda's 509.2 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 688.4 kg/ha, 74% of the median. (10 countries reporting)
- Rwanda's 509.2 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,022 kg/ha, 50% of the median. (21 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 550 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 700 kg/ha | 4 |
| 1970s | 781.21 kg/ha | 629.3 kg/ha | 837.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 819.82 kg/ha | 688.3 kg/ha | 1,096 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 678.91 kg/ha | 466.5 kg/ha | 1,035 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 626.21 kg/ha | 471.2 kg/ha | 824.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 564.01 kg/ha | 416.3 kg/ha | 789 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 487.82 kg/ha | 419 kg/ha | 521.9 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Rwanda
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.203 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 228.16 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.6953 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6909 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 20.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 20.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is soya beans — yield in Rwanda?
- Soya beans — yield in Rwanda was 509.2 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in Rwanda?
- The highest recorded value was 1,096 kg/ha in 1982.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in Rwanda?
- The lowest recorded value was 416.3 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Rwanda rank for soya beans — yield?
- Rwanda ranks 92nd out of 98 countries with data for 2024.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in Rwanda?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Rwanda 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.