Vegetables Primary — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 8,384 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 8,384 kg/ha for vegetables primary — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 12.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 8,755 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 5,204 kg/ha, in 1966.
Eastern Africa ranks 27th of 29 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Vegetables Primary — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,232 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,267 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1963 | 5,278 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1964 | 5,276 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1965 | 5,296 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1966 | 5,204 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1967 | 5,323 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1968 | 5,335 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1969 | 5,365 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1970 | 5,289 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1971 | 5,335 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1972 | 5,279 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1973 | 5,330 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1974 | 5,356 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1975 | 5,425 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1976 | 5,448 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1977 | 5,473 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1978 | 5,501 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1979 | 5,503 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 5,575 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1981 | 5,673 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1982 | 5,684 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1983 | 5,550 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1984 | 5,540 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1985 | 5,465 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1986 | 5,585 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1987 | 5,721 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1988 | 5,845 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1989 | 6,010 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1990 | 5,777 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1991 | 6,114 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1992 | 6,463 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1993 | 6,040 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1994 | 6,153 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1995 | 6,173 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1996 | 6,210 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1997 | 6,219 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1998 | 6,275 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1999 | 6,314 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2000 | 6,334 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 6,444 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2002 | 6,330 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2003 | 6,572 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2004 | 6,452 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2005 | 6,735 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2006 | 6,498 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2007 | 6,687 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2008 | 6,494 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2009 | 6,770 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2010 | 6,877 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2011 | 6,857 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2012 | 7,078 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2013 | 7,402 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2014 | 7,459 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2015 | 7,470 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 7,400 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2017 | 7,714 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2018 | 7,948 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2019 | 8,244 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2020 | 8,651 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2021 | 8,605 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2022 | 8,755 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2023 | 8,401 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2024 | 8,384 kg/ha | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,286 kg/ha | 5,204 kg/ha | 5,365 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,394 kg/ha | 5,279 kg/ha | 5,503 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,665 kg/ha | 5,465 kg/ha | 6,010 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,174 kg/ha | 5,777 kg/ha | 6,463 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,532 kg/ha | 6,330 kg/ha | 6,770 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,445 kg/ha | 6,857 kg/ha | 8,244 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,559 kg/ha | 8,384 kg/ha | 8,755 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
- 24 Nicaragua 34,561 kg/ha compare
- 25 Saudi Arabia 33,328 kg/ha compare
- 26 Morocco 33,156 kg/ha compare
- 27 Belarus 32,280 kg/ha compare
- 28 Italy 32,173 kg/ha compare
- 29 Azerbaijan 31,126 kg/ha compare
- 29 Côte d'Ivoire 3,901 kg/ha compare
- 30 Russian Federation 29,769 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Vegetables primary — yield in Eastern Africa was 8,384 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 8,755 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,204 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 27th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Africa 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.