Vegetables Primary — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 16,846 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, vegetables primary — yield in Southern Africa stood at 16,846 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 0.8% on the previous year and up 1.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 18,118 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 13,064 kg/ha, in 1962.
Southern Africa ranks 20th of 33 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,237 kg/ha | 13,064 kg/ha | 15,425 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 15,448 kg/ha | 14,485 kg/ha | 16,375 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 16,225 kg/ha | 15,544 kg/ha | 17,303 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 15,957 kg/ha | 15,172 kg/ha | 16,516 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,903 kg/ha | 15,650 kg/ha | 17,725 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,255 kg/ha | 16,653 kg/ha | 18,118 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,964 kg/ha | 16,397 kg/ha | 17,521 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Southern Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 3.93 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 11,906 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 461,288 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 528,091 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 11,393 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 53,939 kg/ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 1.50 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 4,427 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 374,875 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 95 kg/An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in Southern Africa?
- Vegetables primary — yield in Southern Africa was 16,846 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 18,118 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 13,064 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Southern Africa rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 20th out of 33 groups with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.2%. 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 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.