Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield was 2,574 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Southern Africa, 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 Southern Africa is 2,574 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 8.4% on the previous year and down 1.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 3,173 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 705.9 kg/ha, in 1975.
That places Southern Africa 1st out of 27 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Unmanufactured tobacco — Yield in Southern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 786.2 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 758.3 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1963 | 878.2 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 1964 | 917.6 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1965 | 879.9 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1966 | 786.5 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1967 | 753.3 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1968 | 1,234 kg/ha | +63.8% |
| 1969 | 1,105 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 1970 | 764.6 kg/ha | -30.8% |
| 1971 | 898.7 kg/ha | +17.5% |
| 1972 | 770.5 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1973 | 768 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1974 | 911.3 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 1975 | 705.9 kg/ha | -22.5% |
| 1976 | 889.5 kg/ha | +26.0% |
| 1977 | 879.5 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1978 | 940.9 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1979 | 1,197 kg/ha | +27.2% |
| 1980 | 919.6 kg/ha | -23.1% |
| 1981 | 886 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1982 | 1,131 kg/ha | +27.6% |
| 1983 | 1,140 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1984 | 1,106 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1985 | 1,092 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1986 | 1,036 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1987 | 1,043 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1988 | 1,178 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 1989 | 1,475 kg/ha | +25.2% |
| 1990 | 1,094 kg/ha | -25.8% |
| 1991 | 1,372 kg/ha | +25.5% |
| 1992 | 1,454 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1993 | 1,264 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 1994 | 1,216 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1995 | 1,465 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 1996 | 1,463 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1997 | 1,913 kg/ha | +30.8% |
| 1998 | 2,186 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 1999 | 2,155 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2000 | 1,885 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2001 | 2,241 kg/ha | +18.9% |
| 2002 | 2,225 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2003 | 2,726 kg/ha | +22.5% |
| 2004 | 2,165 kg/ha | -20.6% |
| 2005 | 2,518 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 2006 | 2,411 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2007 | 2,478 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2008 | 2,552 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2009 | 2,551 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 2,962 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 2011 | 2,676 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 2012 | 3,173 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 2013 | 2,802 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 2014 | 2,606 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2015 | 2,743 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2016 | 2,842 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2017 | 3,026 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2018 | 2,941 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2019 | 2,892 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2020 | 2,913 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2021 | 2,311 kg/ha | -20.7% |
| 2022 | 2,189 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2023 | 2,373 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2024 | 2,574 kg/ha | +8.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 899.88 kg/ha | 753.3 kg/ha | 1,234 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 872.55 kg/ha | 705.9 kg/ha | 1,197 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,101 kg/ha | 886 kg/ha | 1,475 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,558 kg/ha | 1,094 kg/ha | 2,186 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,375 kg/ha | 1,885 kg/ha | 2,726 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,866 kg/ha | 2,606 kg/ha | 3,173 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,472 kg/ha | 2,189 kg/ha | 2,913 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Southern Africa?
- Unmanufactured tobacco — yield in Southern Africa was 2,574 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest unmanufactured tobacco — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 3,173 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest unmanufactured tobacco — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 705.9 kg/ha in 1975.
- How does Southern Africa rank for unmanufactured tobacco — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 1st out of 27 groups with data for 2024.
- Is unmanufactured tobacco — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.3%. 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 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.