String beans — Yield in Africa
Africa: String beans — Yield was 18,108 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
String beans — Yield in Africa, 1989–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Africa recorded 18,108 kg/ha for string beans — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 10.1% on the previous year and down 15.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, string beans — yield in Africa peaked at 23,993 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 5,000 kg/ha, in 1989.
Africa ranks 5th of 23 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 36 years of available data.
String beans — Yield in Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1990 | 5,080 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1991 | 5,061 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1992 | 5,061 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 5,102 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1994 | 5,036 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1995 | 7,140 kg/ha | +41.8% |
| 1996 | 7,576 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1997 | 11,303 kg/ha | +49.2% |
| 1998 | 14,104 kg/ha | +24.8% |
| 1999 | 17,419 kg/ha | +23.5% |
| 2000 | 12,077 kg/ha | -30.7% |
| 2001 | 12,786 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2002 | 14,349 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2003 | 16,351 kg/ha | +14.0% |
| 2004 | 15,444 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2005 | 15,761 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2006 | 17,600 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 2007 | 19,382 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2008 | 19,691 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 20,226 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2010 | 22,235 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2011 | 16,683 kg/ha | -25.0% |
| 2012 | 19,387 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 2013 | 20,748 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 2014 | 21,396 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2015 | 22,438 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2016 | 23,978 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2017 | 23,984 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 21,283 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 2019 | 17,138 kg/ha | -19.5% |
| 2020 | 16,438 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 2021 | 17,952 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 2022 | 23,993 kg/ha | +33.7% |
| 2023 | 20,151 kg/ha | -16.0% |
| 2024 | 18,108 kg/ha | -10.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 1 |
| 1990s | 8,288 kg/ha | 5,036 kg/ha | 17,419 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,367 kg/ha | 12,077 kg/ha | 20,226 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,927 kg/ha | 16,683 kg/ha | 23,984 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 19,328 kg/ha | 16,438 kg/ha | 23,993 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Africa
- 2 Morocco 20,260 kg/ha compare
- 2 Türkiye 11,325 kg/ha compare
- 3 Malaysia 13,998 kg/ha compare
- 3 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 9,848 kg/ha compare
- 4 France 12,421 kg/ha compare
- 5 Jordan 11,968 kg/ha compare
- 6 China 11,604 kg/ha compare
- 6 China, Taiwan Province of 11,604 kg/ha compare
- 6 Polynesia 2,787 kg/ha compare
- 8 Mexico 10,680 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is string beans — yield in Africa?
- String beans — yield in Africa was 18,108 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest string beans — yield recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 23,993 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest string beans — yield recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 kg/ha in 1989.
- How does Africa rank for string beans — yield?
- Africa ranks 5th out of 23 groups with data for 2024.
- Is string beans — yield rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 15.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of String 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.