Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Sugar Crops Primary — Yield was 69,424 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar Crops Primary — Yield in Kenya, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sugar crops primary — yield in Kenya stood at 69,424 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.8% on the previous year and down 21.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar crops primary — yield in Kenya peaked at 121,184 kg/ha in 1980 and was at its lowest, 29,755 kg/ha, in 1961.
Kenya ranks 51st of 164 countries on this measure, 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 | 38,281 kg/ha | 29,755 kg/ha | 58,431 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 74,176 kg/ha | 54,959 kg/ha | 99,935 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 99,541 kg/ha | 77,594 kg/ha | 121,184 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 87,179 kg/ha | 66,211 kg/ha | 117,301 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 83,810 kg/ha | 68,856 kg/ha | 93,858 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 76,340 kg/ha | 64,031 kg/ha | 92,057 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 74,164 kg/ha | 68,849 kg/ha | 82,102 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Kenya
- 48 Lithuania 69,861 kg/ha compare
- 49 Sierra Leone 69,709 kg/ha compare
- 50 Czechia 69,560 kg/ha compare
- 52 United Republic of Tanzania 69,383 kg/ha compare
- 53 Mali 68,500 kg/ha compare
- 54 Switzerland 67,753 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture share gdp 23.16 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 23.16 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 67.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 39.00 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.06 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar crops primary — yield in Kenya?
- Sugar crops primary — yield in Kenya was 69,424 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 121,184 kg/ha in 1980.
- What is the lowest sugar crops primary — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 29,755 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Kenya rank for sugar crops primary — yield?
- Kenya ranks 51st out of 164 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar crops primary — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is down 21.8%. 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 Sugar Crops Primary — 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.