Tea leaves — Yield in Malawi
Malawi: Tea leaves — Yield was 12,456 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Tea leaves — Yield in Malawi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, tea leaves — yield in Malawi stood at 12,456 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.9% on the previous year and up 10.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tea leaves — yield in Malawi peaked at 12,456 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 931.7 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places Malawi 2nd out of 51 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,097 kg/ha | 931.7 kg/ha | 1,299 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,573 kg/ha | 1,283 kg/ha | 1,863 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,015 kg/ha | 1,709 kg/ha | 2,220 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,398 kg/ha | 2,104 kg/ha | 9,308 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,049 kg/ha | 8,511 kg/ha | 11,662 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,361 kg/ha | 10,754 kg/ha | 11,985 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12,285 kg/ha | 12,100 kg/ha | 12,456 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Malawi
- Agriculture share gdp 30.03 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 30.03 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 82.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.2% (2025)
- Rural population 18.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 30.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.48 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.13 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tea leaves — yield in Malawi?
- Tea leaves — yield in Malawi was 12,456 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tea leaves — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 12,456 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest tea leaves — yield recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 931.7 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Malawi rank for tea leaves — yield?
- Malawi ranks 2nd out of 51 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tea leaves — yield rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Malawi data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Tea leaves — 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.