Soya beans — Yield in Uganda
Uganda: Soya beans — Yield was 738.1 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Soya beans — Yield in Uganda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Uganda recorded 738.1 kg/ha for soya beans — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 23.9% on the previous year and up 23.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in Uganda peaked at 1,208 kg/ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 374.5 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Uganda 87th out of 98 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.
Soya beans — Yield in Uganda, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 374.5 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 416.7 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1963 | 800 kg/ha | +92.0% |
| 1964 | 400 kg/ha | -50.0% |
| 1965 | 416.7 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1966 | 952.4 kg/ha | +128.6% |
| 1967 | 1,000 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1968 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,087 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1971 | 1,000 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1972 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 666.7 kg/ha | -33.3% |
| 1975 | 666.7 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,000 kg/ha | +50.0% |
| 1977 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 750 kg/ha | -25.0% |
| 1980 | 750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 1,000 kg/ha | +33.3% |
| 1982 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 1,167 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1984 | 727.3 kg/ha | -37.7% |
| 1985 | 800 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1986 | 785 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1987 | 800 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1988 | 823.5 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1989 | 895.1 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1990 | 992.7 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1991 | 1,093 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1992 | 1,000 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1993 | 1,031 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1994 | 1,103 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1995 | 1,097 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1996 | 1,145 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1997 | 1,105 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1998 | 1,150 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1999 | 1,202 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2000 | 1,208 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 1,134 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 2002 | 1,099 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2003 | 1,133 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2004 | 1,097 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2005 | 1,097 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 1,207 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2007 | 1,197 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2008 | 709.7 kg/ha | -40.7% |
| 2009 | 600 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 2010 | 600 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 700 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 2012 | 500.1 kg/ha | -28.6% |
| 2013 | 500 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2014 | 600 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 2015 | 596 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2016 | 547.4 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2017 | 597.8 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 2018 | 568.4 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2019 | 590.7 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2020 | 613.3 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2021 | 797.7 kg/ha | +30.1% |
| 2022 | 800 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 970 kg/ha | +21.2% |
| 2024 | 738.1 kg/ha | -23.9% |
Uganda compared with similar countries
- Uganda's 738.1 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 688.4 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (10 countries reporting)
- Uganda's 738.1 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,022 kg/ha, 72% of the median. (21 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Soya beans — Yield in Uganda 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | +128.6% | 416.7 kg/ha | 952.4 kg/ha |
| 1963 | +92.0% | 416.7 kg/ha | 800 kg/ha |
| 1964 | -50.0% | 800 kg/ha | 400 kg/ha |
| 1976 | +50.0% | 666.7 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 706.7 kg/ha | 374.5 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 917.04 kg/ha | 666.7 kg/ha | 1,087 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 874.76 kg/ha | 727.3 kg/ha | 1,167 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,092 kg/ha | 992.7 kg/ha | 1,202 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,048 kg/ha | 600 kg/ha | 1,208 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 580.04 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 700 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 783.82 kg/ha | 613.3 kg/ha | 970 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 22.05 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2613 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 315.24 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.75 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6806 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 26.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 26.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.4% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is soya beans — yield in Uganda?
- Soya beans — yield in Uganda was 738.1 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in Uganda?
- The highest recorded value was 1,208 kg/ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in Uganda?
- The lowest recorded value was 374.5 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Uganda rank for soya beans — yield?
- Uganda ranks 87th out of 98 countries with data for 2024.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in Uganda?
- Over the last ten years it is up 23.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Uganda 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.