Wheat — Area harvested in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Wheat — Area harvested was 2.54 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Area harvested in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 2.54 million ha for wheat — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is down 0.4% on the previous year and up 24.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — area harvested in Eastern Africa peaked at 2.55 million ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 736,383 ha, in 1978.
Eastern Africa ranks 22nd of 26 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Area harvested in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1.04 million ha | — |
| 1962 | 1.05 million ha | +0.5% |
| 1963 | 1.08 million ha | +2.8% |
| 1964 | 1.08 million ha | +0.6% |
| 1965 | 1.13 million ha | +4.6% |
| 1966 | 1.16 million ha | +2.2% |
| 1967 | 1.19 million ha | +2.6% |
| 1968 | 1.23 million ha | +3.8% |
| 1969 | 1.26 million ha | +1.9% |
| 1970 | 1.31 million ha | +4.1% |
| 1971 | 1.34 million ha | +2.5% |
| 1972 | 1.37 million ha | +1.8% |
| 1973 | 1.01 million ha | -26.3% |
| 1974 | 1.02 million ha | +1.3% |
| 1975 | 981,195 ha | -3.7% |
| 1976 | 764,665 ha | -22.1% |
| 1977 | 767,832 ha | +0.4% |
| 1978 | 736,383 ha | -4.1% |
| 1979 | 742,701 ha | +0.9% |
| 1980 | 767,646 ha | +3.4% |
| 1981 | 769,900 ha | +0.3% |
| 1982 | 917,140 ha | +19.1% |
| 1983 | 935,024 ha | +1.9% |
| 1984 | 829,449 ha | -11.3% |
| 1985 | 912,850 ha | +10.1% |
| 1986 | 1.03 million ha | +12.8% |
| 1987 | 940,072 ha | -8.7% |
| 1988 | 950,744 ha | +1.1% |
| 1989 | 954,623 ha | +0.4% |
| 1990 | 910,039 ha | -4.7% |
| 1991 | 851,871 ha | -6.4% |
| 1992 | 854,657 ha | +0.3% |
| 1993 | 894,803 ha | +4.7% |
| 1994 | 1.04 million ha | +15.8% |
| 1995 | 1.11 million ha | +6.7% |
| 1996 | 1.29 million ha | +16.3% |
| 1997 | 1.17 million ha | -8.7% |
| 1998 | 1.20 million ha | +1.8% |
| 1999 | 1.34 million ha | +12.2% |
| 2000 | 1.38 million ha | +2.9% |
| 2001 | 1.51 million ha | +9.1% |
| 2002 | 1.30 million ha | -13.6% |
| 2003 | 1.48 million ha | +13.9% |
| 2004 | 1.45 million ha | -1.9% |
| 2005 | 1.76 million ha | +21.0% |
| 2006 | 1.82 million ha | +3.8% |
| 2007 | 1.86 million ha | +2.2% |
| 2008 | 1.73 million ha | -7.4% |
| 2009 | 2.13 million ha | +23.2% |
| 2010 | 2.16 million ha | +1.3% |
| 2011 | 2.06 million ha | -4.3% |
| 2012 | 2.03 million ha | -1.7% |
| 2013 | 2.02 million ha | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 2.04 million ha | +0.9% |
| 2015 | 2.00 million ha | -1.7% |
| 2016 | 2.18 million ha | +8.8% |
| 2017 | 2.15 million ha | -1.6% |
| 2018 | 2.26 million ha | +5.4% |
| 2019 | 2.27 million ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 2.34 million ha | +3.2% |
| 2021 | 2.51 million ha | +7.2% |
| 2022 | 2.44 million ha | -2.7% |
| 2023 | 2.55 million ha | +4.7% |
| 2024 | 2.54 million ha | -0.4% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Area harvested in Eastern Africa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | -26.3% | 1.37 million ha | 1.01 million ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.14 million ha | 1.04 million ha | 1.26 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.00 million ha | 736,383 ha | 1.37 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 900,713 ha | 767,646 ha | 1.03 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.07 million ha | 851,871 ha | 1.34 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.64 million ha | 1.30 million ha | 2.13 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.12 million ha | 2.00 million ha | 2.27 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.48 million ha | 2.34 million ha | 2.55 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Eastern Africa
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -1.7 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.5636 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tomatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -0.4089 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 7.95 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -2.06 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) 1.76 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.0158 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 10.98 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 0.3517 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — area harvested in Eastern Africa?
- Wheat — area harvested in Eastern Africa was 2.54 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — area harvested recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 2.55 million ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest wheat — area harvested recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 736,383 ha in 1978.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for wheat — area harvested?
- Eastern Africa ranks 22nd out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — area harvested rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.6%. 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 Wheat — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.