Vegetables Primary — Yield in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 11,347 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in Sri Lanka, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, vegetables primary — yield in Sri Lanka stood at 11,347 kg/ha.
The figure is down 3.7% on the previous year and up 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in Sri Lanka peaked at 12,735 kg/ha in 2018 and was at its lowest, 2,406 kg/ha, in 1974.
That places Sri Lanka 131st out of 207 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 3,153 kg/ha | 2,570 kg/ha | 3,916 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,291 kg/ha | 2,406 kg/ha | 5,179 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,496 kg/ha | 4,281 kg/ha | 8,084 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,984 kg/ha | 6,680 kg/ha | 7,422 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,901 kg/ha | 6,798 kg/ha | 9,272 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,398 kg/ha | 9,542 kg/ha | 12,735 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,504 kg/ha | 10,833 kg/ha | 11,800 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Sri Lanka
- 128 Micronesia 11,713 kg/ha compare
- 129 Romania 11,507 kg/ha compare
- 130 Afghanistan 11,371 kg/ha compare
- 132 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 11,296 kg/ha compare
- 133 Melanesia 11,275 kg/ha compare
- 134 Mozambique 11,268 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture share gdp 8.36 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 8.36 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Rural population 79.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 17.31 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 8,514 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is vegetables primary — yield in Sri Lanka?
- Vegetables primary — yield in Sri Lanka was 11,347 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The highest recorded value was 12,735 kg/ha in 2018.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in Sri Lanka?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,406 kg/ha in 1974.
- How does Sri Lanka rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- Sri Lanka ranks 131st out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sri Lanka 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.