Sunflower seed — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Sunflower seed — Yield was 1,030 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 1,030 kg/ha for sunflower seed — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 4.1% on the previous year and up 6.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 1,099 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 355.6 kg/ha, in 1965.
Eastern Africa ranks 22nd of 25 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sunflower seed — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 370.1 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 366.1 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1963 | 382.8 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1964 | 423.8 kg/ha | +10.7% |
| 1965 | 355.6 kg/ha | -16.1% |
| 1966 | 382.7 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1967 | 436.3 kg/ha | +14.0% |
| 1968 | 479.3 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1969 | 455 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1970 | 485.8 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1971 | 503.3 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1972 | 577.5 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 1973 | 512.5 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1974 | 542.4 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1975 | 550.9 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1976 | 640.9 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 1977 | 622.8 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1978 | 582.1 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1979 | 572.8 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1980 | 679.2 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 1981 | 574.7 kg/ha | -15.4% |
| 1982 | 588 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1983 | 604.4 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1984 | 549.1 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1985 | 577.5 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1986 | 561.3 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1987 | 526.5 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1988 | 574 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1989 | 466.2 kg/ha | -18.8% |
| 1990 | 569.3 kg/ha | +22.1% |
| 1991 | 528.2 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1992 | 426.3 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 1993 | 537.4 kg/ha | +26.1% |
| 1994 | 487.4 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 1995 | 487.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 617.6 kg/ha | +26.7% |
| 1997 | 610 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1998 | 661.9 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1999 | 700.6 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2000 | 706.6 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2001 | 778.7 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2002 | 714.9 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2003 | 779.6 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 2004 | 754.7 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2005 | 756.1 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 729.5 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2007 | 733.2 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 818 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 2009 | 833.9 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2010 | 860.4 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2011 | 1,026 kg/ha | +19.3% |
| 2012 | 965.9 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2013 | 953 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2014 | 963.8 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 994 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2016 | 973.7 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2017 | 989.3 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2018 | 999.7 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2019 | 1,099 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2020 | 1,088 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2021 | 1,081 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2022 | 1,079 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2023 | 1,074 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2024 | 1,030 kg/ha | -4.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 405.74 kg/ha | 355.6 kg/ha | 479.3 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 559.1 kg/ha | 485.8 kg/ha | 640.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 570.09 kg/ha | 466.2 kg/ha | 679.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 562.61 kg/ha | 426.3 kg/ha | 700.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 760.52 kg/ha | 706.6 kg/ha | 833.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 982.55 kg/ha | 860.4 kg/ha | 1,099 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,071 kg/ha | 1,030 kg/ha | 1,088 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Eastern Africa was 1,030 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,099 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 355.6 kg/ha in 1965.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 22nd out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sunflower seed — 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.