Wheat — Yield in Eastern Africa
Eastern Africa: Wheat — Yield was 2,926 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Eastern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Africa recorded 2,926 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.9% on the previous year and up 20.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Eastern Africa peaked at 2,970 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 737.4 kg/ha, in 1962.
Eastern Africa ranks 18th of 26 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.
Wheat — Yield in Eastern Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 748.6 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 737.4 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1963 | 762.7 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1964 | 771.2 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1965 | 812.6 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1966 | 792.6 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1967 | 815.7 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1968 | 868.9 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1969 | 890.6 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1970 | 890.9 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 909.9 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1972 | 904.1 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1973 | 966.9 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1974 | 1,008 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1975 | 1,096 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1976 | 1,264 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 1977 | 1,346 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1978 | 1,231 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1979 | 1,306 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1980 | 1,397 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1981 | 1,487 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1982 | 1,358 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1983 | 1,505 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1984 | 1,244 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 1985 | 1,370 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1986 | 1,362 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1987 | 1,446 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1988 | 1,506 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1989 | 1,582 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1990 | 1,729 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1991 | 1,767 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1992 | 1,538 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 1993 | 1,736 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 1994 | 1,494 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 1995 | 1,475 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1996 | 1,495 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1997 | 1,525 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1998 | 1,589 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1999 | 1,370 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 2000 | 1,325 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2001 | 1,529 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 2002 | 1,652 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2003 | 1,611 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2004 | 1,690 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2005 | 1,763 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2006 | 1,690 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2007 | 1,777 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2008 | 1,723 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2009 | 1,770 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2010 | 1,943 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 2011 | 1,859 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 2012 | 2,163 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 2013 | 2,423 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 2014 | 2,433 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 2,649 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2016 | 2,353 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 2017 | 2,529 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2018 | 2,628 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2019 | 2,775 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2020 | 2,900 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2021 | 2,906 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 2,970 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2023 | 2,870 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2024 | 2,926 kg/ha | +1.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 800.03 kg/ha | 737.4 kg/ha | 890.6 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,092 kg/ha | 890.9 kg/ha | 1,346 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,426 kg/ha | 1,244 kg/ha | 1,582 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,572 kg/ha | 1,370 kg/ha | 1,767 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,653 kg/ha | 1,325 kg/ha | 1,777 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,375 kg/ha | 1,859 kg/ha | 2,775 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,914 kg/ha | 2,870 kg/ha | 2,970 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Eastern Africa?
- Wheat — yield in Eastern Africa was 2,926 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 2,970 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Eastern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 737.4 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does Eastern Africa rank for wheat — yield?
- Eastern Africa ranks 18th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.3%. 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 — 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.