Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Ghana
Ghana: Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield was 414.1 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Ghana, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Ghana is 414.1 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 0.7% on the previous year and up 1.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Ghana peaked at 1,000 kg/ha in 1977 and was at its lowest, 179.4 kg/ha, in 1966.
Ghana ranks 124th of 128 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Ghana, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 389.6 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 391.1 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1963 | 271.3 kg/ha | -30.6% |
| 1964 | 310.2 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1965 | 226.6 kg/ha | -27.0% |
| 1966 | 179.4 kg/ha | -20.8% |
| 1967 | 342.3 kg/ha | +90.8% |
| 1968 | 328.9 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1969 | 430.8 kg/ha | +31.0% |
| 1970 | 574.8 kg/ha | +33.4% |
| 1971 | 646.4 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1972 | 693.5 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1973 | 818.7 kg/ha | +18.1% |
| 1974 | 817 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1975 | 755.5 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1976 | 638.8 kg/ha | -15.4% |
| 1977 | 1,000 kg/ha | +56.5% |
| 1978 | 857.1 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1979 | 1,000 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1980 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 400 kg/ha | -60.0% |
| 1982 | 428.6 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1983 | 514.3 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1984 | 600 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1985 | 657.7 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 1986 | 500 kg/ha | -24.0% |
| 1987 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 382.5 kg/ha | -23.5% |
| 1991 | 331.4 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1992 | 543.8 kg/ha | +64.1% |
| 1993 | 492.9 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 1994 | 487.4 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1995 | 607.1 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 1996 | 510.2 kg/ha | -16.0% |
| 1997 | 588.4 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 1998 | 588.7 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1999 | 341.8 kg/ha | -41.9% |
| 2000 | 341.8 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 341.8 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 341.8 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 341.8 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 341.8 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 454.5 kg/ha | +33.0% |
| 2006 | 427.7 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2007 | 469.6 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 2008 | 427.7 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2009 | 415.4 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2010 | 421.9 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2011 | 421.8 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 421.7 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2013 | 421.7 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 408.1 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2015 | 404.3 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2016 | 400.1 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2017 | 391.9 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2018 | 409.7 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2019 | 401.6 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2020 | 409.8 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2021 | 413.1 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 408 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2023 | 411.4 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2024 | 414.1 kg/ha | +0.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 318.91 kg/ha | 179.4 kg/ha | 430.8 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 780.18 kg/ha | 574.8 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 560.06 kg/ha | 400 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 487.42 kg/ha | 331.4 kg/ha | 607.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 390.39 kg/ha | 341.8 kg/ha | 469.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 410.28 kg/ha | 391.9 kg/ha | 421.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 411.28 kg/ha | 408 kg/ha | 414.1 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2128 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
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- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Ghana?
- Unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Ghana was 414.1 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest unmanufactured tobacco — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 1,000 kg/ha in 1977.
- What is the lowest unmanufactured tobacco — yield recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 179.4 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Ghana rank for unmanufactured tobacco — yield?
- Ghana ranks 124th out of 128 countries with data for 2024.
- Is unmanufactured tobacco — yield rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Ghana data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Unmanufactured tobacco — 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.