Tomatoes — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Tomatoes — Yield was 19,128 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Tomatoes — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, tomatoes — yield in Middle Africa stood at 19,128 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 4.1% on the previous year and up 68.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, tomatoes — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 19,128 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 3,315 kg/ha, in 1979.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Tomatoes — Yield in Middle Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,258 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,734 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1963 | 4,960 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1964 | 5,245 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1965 | 5,191 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1966 | 5,166 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1967 | 5,512 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1968 | 5,852 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1969 | 5,874 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1970 | 6,000 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1971 | 6,147 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1972 | 6,241 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1973 | 6,205 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1974 | 6,104 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1975 | 6,246 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1976 | 6,087 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1977 | 6,163 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1978 | 4,435 kg/ha | -28.0% |
| 1979 | 3,315 kg/ha | -25.3% |
| 1980 | 4,897 kg/ha | +47.7% |
| 1981 | 5,442 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1982 | 5,561 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1983 | 5,402 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1984 | 5,482 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1985 | 4,796 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 1986 | 5,083 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1987 | 4,880 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1988 | 4,485 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1989 | 4,485 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1990 | 4,426 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1991 | 4,734 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1992 | 5,514 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 1993 | 5,341 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1994 | 5,587 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1995 | 6,397 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 1996 | 6,065 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1997 | 6,085 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1998 | 6,010 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1999 | 13,296 kg/ha | +121.2% |
| 2000 | 13,546 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2001 | 12,980 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2002 | 10,395 kg/ha | -19.9% |
| 2003 | 10,516 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2004 | 9,404 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 2005 | 9,554 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2006 | 11,605 kg/ha | +21.5% |
| 2007 | 11,685 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2008 | 11,658 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2009 | 6,596 kg/ha | -43.4% |
| 2010 | 6,502 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2011 | 11,359 kg/ha | +74.7% |
| 2012 | 10,681 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2013 | 11,406 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2014 | 11,380 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2015 | 11,424 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 14,128 kg/ha | +23.7% |
| 2017 | 14,210 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2018 | 15,003 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2019 | 15,358 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2020 | 15,709 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2021 | 16,345 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2022 | 17,517 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2023 | 18,366 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2024 | 19,128 kg/ha | +4.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Tomatoes — Yield in Middle Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | +121.2% | 6,010 kg/ha | 13,296 kg/ha |
| 2011 | +74.7% | 6,502 kg/ha | 11,359 kg/ha |
| 1980 | +47.7% | 3,315 kg/ha | 4,897 kg/ha |
| 2009 | -43.4% | 11,658 kg/ha | 6,596 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,199 kg/ha | 4,258 kg/ha | 5,874 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,694 kg/ha | 3,315 kg/ha | 6,246 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,051 kg/ha | 4,485 kg/ha | 5,561 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,345 kg/ha | 4,426 kg/ha | 13,296 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 10,794 kg/ha | 6,596 kg/ha | 13,546 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,145 kg/ha | 6,502 kg/ha | 15,358 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,413 kg/ha | 15,709 kg/ha | 19,128 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
- 4 Norway 377,500 kg/ha compare
- 5 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 358,263 kg/ha compare
- 5 Polynesia 24,845 kg/ha compare
- 6 Iceland 340,500 kg/ha compare
- 6 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 21,679 kg/ha compare
- 7 Denmark 335,667 kg/ha compare
- 8 Ireland 333,000 kg/ha compare
- 9 Belgium-Luxembourg 324,878 kg/ha compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 15,764 kg/ha compare
- 10 Sweden 322,400 kg/ha compare
- 10 United Republic of Tanzania 13,255 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is tomatoes — yield in Middle Africa?
- Tomatoes — yield in Middle Africa was 19,128 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest tomatoes — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 19,128 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest tomatoes — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,315 kg/ha in 1979.
- How does Middle Africa rank for tomatoes — yield?
- Middle Africa ranks 7th out of 17 groups with data for 2024.
- Is tomatoes — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 68.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle Africa 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.