Wheat — Yield in Middle Africa
Middle Africa: Wheat — Yield was 1,561 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Middle Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Middle Africa recorded 1,561 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 32.8% on the previous year and up 31.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Middle Africa peaked at 1,561 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 616.2 kg/ha, in 1984.
Middle Africa ranks 29th of 31 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,154 kg/ha | 996.5 kg/ha | 1,400 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 977.09 kg/ha | 715.3 kg/ha | 1,352 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 841.62 kg/ha | 616.2 kg/ha | 1,039 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,276 kg/ha | 971.8 kg/ha | 1,517 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,334 kg/ha | 1,160 kg/ha | 1,470 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,223 kg/ha | 1,060 kg/ha | 1,527 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,052 kg/ha | 707.4 kg/ha | 1,561 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Middle Africa
More agriculture & rural data for Middle Africa
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 57 kg/An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 8.08 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 113,974 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 19,128 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 2.18 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 16,416 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 13,891 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 270,208 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 4.75 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 7.03 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Middle Africa?
- Wheat — yield in Middle Africa was 1,561 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 1,561 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Middle Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 616.2 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Middle Africa rank for wheat — yield?
- Middle Africa ranks 29th out of 31 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Middle Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 31.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Middle 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.