Spinach — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Spinach — Yield was 20,496 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Spinach — Yield in Kenya, 1992–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for spinach — yield in Kenya is 20,496 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 54.5% on the previous year and up 114.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, spinach — yield in Kenya peaked at 24,858 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 8,398 kg/ha, in 1992.
Kenya ranks 12th of 67 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 33 years of available data.
Spinach — Yield in Kenya, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 8,398 kg/ha | — |
| 1993 | 9,106 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1994 | 16,401 kg/ha | +80.1% |
| 1995 | 14,470 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1996 | 15,502 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1997 | 14,236 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1998 | 11,367 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 1999 | 9,714 kg/ha | -14.5% |
| 2000 | 9,902 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2001 | 11,143 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 2002 | 9,624 kg/ha | -13.6% |
| 2003 | 11,672 kg/ha | +21.3% |
| 2004 | 12,506 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2005 | 13,000 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2006 | 13,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 13,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 19,493 kg/ha | +49.9% |
| 2009 | 21,897 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 2010 | 17,897 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 2011 | 10,404 kg/ha | -41.9% |
| 2012 | 10,055 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2013 | 15,632 kg/ha | +55.5% |
| 2014 | 9,565 kg/ha | -38.8% |
| 2015 | 14,436 kg/ha | +50.9% |
| 2016 | 13,457 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 2017 | 17,754 kg/ha | +31.9% |
| 2018 | 18,483 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2019 | 18,858 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2020 | 24,858 kg/ha | +31.8% |
| 2021 | 16,732 kg/ha | -32.7% |
| 2022 | 13,508 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 2023 | 13,266 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2024 | 20,496 kg/ha | +54.5% |
Kenya compared with similar countries
- Kenya's 20,496 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 12,999 kg/ha, 1.6× the median. (9 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 12,399 kg/ha | 8,398 kg/ha | 16,401 kg/ha | 8 |
| 2000s | 13,524 kg/ha | 9,624 kg/ha | 21,897 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 14,654 kg/ha | 9,565 kg/ha | 18,858 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,772 kg/ha | 13,266 kg/ha | 24,858 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Kenya
More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 16.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2316 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 547.24 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6779 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 23.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is spinach — yield in Kenya?
- Spinach — yield in Kenya was 20,496 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest spinach — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 24,858 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest spinach — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,398 kg/ha in 1992.
- How does Kenya rank for spinach — yield?
- Kenya ranks 12th out of 67 countries with data for 2024.
- Is spinach — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 114.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Spinach — 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.