Tomatoes — Yield in Benin
Benin: Tomatoes — Yield was 7,191 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Tomatoes — Yield in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Benin recorded 7,191 kg/ha for tomatoes — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and down 18.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tomatoes — yield in Benin peaked at 9,044 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 1,883 kg/ha, in 1961.
Benin ranks 155th of 169 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Tomatoes — Yield in Benin, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,883 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,074 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1963 | 3,150 kg/ha | +51.9% |
| 1964 | 3,108 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1965 | 2,795 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1966 | 2,230 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 1967 | 2,257 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1968 | 2,131 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1969 | 2,438 kg/ha | +14.4% |
| 1970 | 5,659 kg/ha | +132.1% |
| 1971 | 4,501 kg/ha | -20.5% |
| 1972 | 3,252 kg/ha | -27.8% |
| 1973 | 4,633 kg/ha | +42.5% |
| 1974 | 4,524 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1975 | 4,979 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1976 | 3,775 kg/ha | -24.2% |
| 1977 | 3,239 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 1978 | 2,772 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1979 | 4,458 kg/ha | +60.9% |
| 1980 | 4,132 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1981 | 4,370 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1982 | 3,663 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 1983 | 5,049 kg/ha | +37.8% |
| 1984 | 4,765 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1985 | 5,361 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1986 | 6,224 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 1987 | 4,855 kg/ha | -22.0% |
| 1988 | 5,737 kg/ha | +18.2% |
| 1989 | 5,319 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1990 | 5,161 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1991 | 5,881 kg/ha | +14.0% |
| 1992 | 5,407 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1993 | 4,954 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 1994 | 5,400 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1995 | 5,644 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1996 | 5,096 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1997 | 5,923 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 1998 | 5,270 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1999 | 4,792 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 2000 | 5,399 kg/ha | +12.7% |
| 2001 | 5,161 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2002 | 4,743 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 2003 | 5,018 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2004 | 5,881 kg/ha | +17.2% |
| 2005 | 5,056 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 2006 | 5,673 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2007 | 5,732 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2008 | 5,835 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2009 | 5,975 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2010 | 5,560 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2011 | 5,821 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2012 | 5,690 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2013 | 5,690 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 8,779 kg/ha | +54.3% |
| 2015 | 7,786 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 2016 | 8,348 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2017 | 8,339 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2018 | 6,688 kg/ha | -19.8% |
| 2019 | 9,044 kg/ha | +35.2% |
| 2020 | 6,622 kg/ha | -26.8% |
| 2021 | 6,786 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2022 | 6,788 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 7,166 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2024 | 7,191 kg/ha | +0.4% |
Benin compared with similar countries
- Benin's 7,191 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 17,073 kg/ha, 42% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
- Benin's 7,191 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 13,225 kg/ha, 54% of the median. (33 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Tomatoes — Yield in Benin changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | +132.1% | 2,438 kg/ha | 5,659 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,452 kg/ha | 1,883 kg/ha | 3,150 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,179 kg/ha | 2,772 kg/ha | 5,659 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,947 kg/ha | 3,663 kg/ha | 6,224 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,353 kg/ha | 4,792 kg/ha | 5,923 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,447 kg/ha | 4,743 kg/ha | 5,975 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,175 kg/ha | 5,560 kg/ha | 9,044 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,910 kg/ha | 6,622 kg/ha | 7,191 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.16 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2292 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 380.06 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.6697 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4664 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 22.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is tomatoes — yield in Benin?
- Tomatoes — yield in Benin was 7,191 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tomatoes — yield recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 9,044 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest tomatoes — yield recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,883 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Benin rank for tomatoes — yield?
- Benin ranks 155th out of 169 countries with data for 2024.
- Is tomatoes — yield rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Benin data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Tomatoes — 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.