Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield was 472.7 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Sierra Leone, 1975–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Sierra Leone recorded 472.7 kg/ha for unmanufactured tobacco — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and down 3.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Sierra Leone peaked at 1,446 kg/ha in 1977 and was at its lowest, 469.8 kg/ha, in 2015.
That places Sierra Leone 119th out of 128 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 50 years of available data.
Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,067 kg/ha | — |
| 1976 | 1,341 kg/ha | +25.6% |
| 1977 | 1,446 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1978 | 1,297 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1979 | 1,057 kg/ha | -18.5% |
| 1980 | 1,000 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1981 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 1,091 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1987 | 1,083 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1988 | 1,083 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 1,083 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 1,083 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 1,083 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 1,096 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1993 | 1,175 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1994 | 1,167 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1995 | 989.3 kg/ha | -15.2% |
| 1996 | 859.3 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 1997 | 666.7 kg/ha | -22.4% |
| 1998 | 692.2 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1999 | 666.7 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2000 | 500 kg/ha | -25.0% |
| 2001 | 538.7 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2002 | 526.4 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2003 | 500 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2004 | 490.9 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2005 | 500 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2006 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 493.3 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2011 | 500 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 535.7 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2013 | 515 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2014 | 488.8 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2015 | 469.8 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 2016 | 490.8 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2017 | 483.3 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2018 | 477.6 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2019 | 473.4 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2020 | 470 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2021 | 473.7 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 472.4 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2023 | 472 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 472.7 kg/ha | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,241 kg/ha | 1,057 kg/ha | 1,446 kg/ha | 5 |
| 1980s | 1,034 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,091 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 947.89 kg/ha | 666.7 kg/ha | 1,175 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 505.6 kg/ha | 490.9 kg/ha | 538.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 492.77 kg/ha | 469.8 kg/ha | 535.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 472.16 kg/ha | 470 kg/ha | 473.7 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2954 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 250 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5407 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 29.54 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 29.54 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Sierra Leone?
- Unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Sierra Leone was 472.7 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest unmanufactured tobacco — yield recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 1,446 kg/ha in 1977.
- What is the lowest unmanufactured tobacco — yield recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 469.8 kg/ha in 2015.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for unmanufactured tobacco — yield?
- Sierra Leone ranks 119th out of 128 countries with data for 2024.
- Is unmanufactured tobacco — yield rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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.