Tomatoes — Production in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Tomatoes — Production was 528,091 t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Tomatoes — Production in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Southern Africa recorded 528,091 t for tomatoes — production in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.8% on the previous year and up 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tomatoes — production in Southern Africa peaked at 693,913 t in 2017 and was at its lowest, 156,500 t, in 1962.
Southern Africa ranks 28th of 32 regions on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 203,045 t | 156,500 t | 244,200 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 275,380 t | 217,700 t | 339,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 398,393 t | 314,000 t | 494,656 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 432,732 t | 389,461 t | 466,498 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 489,500 t | 401,814 t | 553,098 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 584,317 t | 524,530 t | 693,913 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 547,756 t | 492,371 t | 619,592 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Southern Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 95 kg/An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 461,288 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 11,906 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 11,393 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 3.93 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 374,875 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 53,939 kg/ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 1.50 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 9,790 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 4,427 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tomatoes — production in Southern Africa?
- Tomatoes — production in Southern Africa was 528,091 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tomatoes — production recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 693,913 t in 2017.
- What is the lowest tomatoes — production recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 156,500 t in 1962.
- How does Southern Africa rank for tomatoes — production?
- Southern Africa ranks 28th out of 32 regions with data for 2024.
- Is tomatoes — production rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Tomatoes — Production. 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.