Vegetables Primary — Yield in Benin
Benin: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 6,204 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in Benin, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Benin recorded 6,204 kg/ha for vegetables primary — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.5% on the previous year and down 2.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in Benin peaked at 7,307 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 3,055 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places Benin 177th out of 207 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,154 kg/ha | 3,055 kg/ha | 3,224 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,714 kg/ha | 3,459 kg/ha | 3,995 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,150 kg/ha | 3,822 kg/ha | 4,443 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,315 kg/ha | 3,703 kg/ha | 4,855 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,945 kg/ha | 3,474 kg/ha | 4,586 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,812 kg/ha | 4,019 kg/ha | 7,307 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,325 kg/ha | 6,171 kg/ha | 6,613 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Benin
- Agriculture share gdp 22.92 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 22.92 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 52.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2024)
- Rural population 46.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 6.91 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 22.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.63 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,973 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in Benin?
- Vegetables primary — yield in Benin was 6,204 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Benin?
- The highest recorded value was 7,307 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Benin?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,055 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Benin rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- Benin ranks 177th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in Benin?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.5%. 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 Vegetables Primary — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.