Vegetables Primary — Yield in Gambia
Gambia: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 6,554 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in Gambia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, vegetables primary — yield in Gambia stood at 6,554 kg/ha.
The figure is down 0.5% on the previous year and up 4.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in Gambia peaked at 6,697 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 4,425 kg/ha, in 1961.
Gambia ranks 160th of 191 countries 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 Gambia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,425 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,425 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 4,425 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 4,425 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 4,425 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 4,478 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1967 | 4,478 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 4,494 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1969 | 4,494 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 4,494 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 4,494 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 4,511 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1973 | 4,444 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1974 | 4,444 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 4,643 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1976 | 4,643 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 4,789 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1978 | 4,667 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1979 | 4,727 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1980 | 4,786 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1981 | 4,762 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1982 | 4,865 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1983 | 5,000 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1984 | 4,828 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1985 | 4,562 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1986 | 4,625 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1987 | 4,688 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1988 | 4,688 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 4,750 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1990 | 6,127 kg/ha | +29.0% |
| 1991 | 4,691 kg/ha | -23.4% |
| 1992 | 4,758 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1993 | 4,802 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1994 | 4,831 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1995 | 4,848 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1996 | 4,980 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1997 | 5,057 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 5,134 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1999 | 5,211 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2000 | 5,294 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2001 | 5,366 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2002 | 5,441 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2003 | 5,515 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2004 | 5,590 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2005 | 5,671 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2006 | 6,000 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2007 | 5,556 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 2008 | 5,832 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2009 | 5,899 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2010 | 5,978 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2011 | 6,000 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 6,250 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2013 | 6,225 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 6,277 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2015 | 6,344 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2016 | 6,414 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2017 | 6,482 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2018 | 6,556 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2019 | 6,628 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 6,697 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 6,515 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2022 | 6,582 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 6,584 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 6,554 kg/ha | -0.5% |
Gambia compared with similar countries
- Gambia's 6,554 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 8,639 kg/ha, 76% of the median. (22 countries reporting)
- Gambia's 6,554 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 8,414 kg/ha, 78% of the median. (43 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Vegetables Primary — Yield in Gambia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | +29.0% | 4,750 kg/ha | 6,127 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,452 kg/ha | 4,425 kg/ha | 4,494 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,586 kg/ha | 4,444 kg/ha | 4,789 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,755 kg/ha | 4,562 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,044 kg/ha | 4,691 kg/ha | 6,127 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,616 kg/ha | 5,294 kg/ha | 6,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,316 kg/ha | 5,978 kg/ha | 6,628 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,586 kg/ha | 6,515 kg/ha | 6,697 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Gambia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 25.87 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2385 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 219.17 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2766 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0004 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3501 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 23.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 23.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in Gambia?
- Vegetables primary — yield in Gambia was 6,554 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Gambia?
- The highest recorded value was 6,697 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Gambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,425 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Gambia rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- Gambia ranks 160th out of 191 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in Gambia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Gambia 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.