Soya beans — Yield in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Soya beans — Yield was 1,927 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Soya beans — Yield in Sri Lanka, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, soya beans — yield in Sri Lanka stood at 1,927 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.3% on the previous year and up 76.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in Sri Lanka peaked at 2,405 kg/ha in 2008 and was at its lowest, 639.9 kg/ha, in 1982.
That places Sri Lanka 51st out of 111 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 777.77 kg/ha | 750 kg/ha | 833.3 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,081 kg/ha | 875 kg/ha | 1,492 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 920.45 kg/ha | 639.9 kg/ha | 1,109 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 933.85 kg/ha | 804 kg/ha | 1,017 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,511 kg/ha | 920.6 kg/ha | 2,405 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,591 kg/ha | 1,090 kg/ha | 2,404 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,015 kg/ha | 1,927 kg/ha | 2,227 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
- 48 Georgia 2,000 kg/ha compare
- 48 Honduras 2,000 kg/ha compare
- 50 El Salvador 1,936 kg/ha compare
- 52 Lithuania 1,924 kg/ha compare
- 53 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,909 kg/ha compare
- 54 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1,884 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Rural population 79.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 17.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 8,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is soya beans — yield in Sri Lanka?
- Soya beans — yield in Sri Lanka was 1,927 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 2,405 kg/ha in 2008.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 639.9 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for soya beans — yield?
- Sri Lanka ranks 51st out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is up 76.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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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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.