Wheat — Yield in Western Africa
Western Africa: Wheat — Yield was 2,088 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Western Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Western Africa stood at 2,088 kg/ha.
The figure is down 11.6% on the previous year and up 21.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Western Africa peaked at 2,961 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 983.3 kg/ha, in 1990.
That places Western Africa 23rd out of 26 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Western Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,633 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,608 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1963 | 1,607 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1964 | 1,639 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1965 | 1,633 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1966 | 1,709 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1967 | 1,791 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1968 | 1,679 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1969 | 1,714 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1970 | 1,625 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1971 | 1,650 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1972 | 1,654 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1973 | 1,366 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 1974 | 1,414 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1975 | 1,545 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1976 | 1,658 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1977 | 1,847 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 1978 | 1,904 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1979 | 1,967 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1980 | 2,109 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1981 | 2,198 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1982 | 2,136 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1983 | 1,679 kg/ha | -21.4% |
| 1984 | 1,670 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1985 | 2,038 kg/ha | +22.1% |
| 1986 | 1,938 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1987 | 1,892 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1988 | 1,240 kg/ha | -34.4% |
| 1989 | 1,199 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1990 | 983.3 kg/ha | -18.0% |
| 1991 | 1,319 kg/ha | +34.1% |
| 1992 | 1,462 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1993 | 2,314 kg/ha | +58.3% |
| 1994 | 2,340 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1995 | 2,208 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1996 | 2,033 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1997 | 2,505 kg/ha | +23.2% |
| 1998 | 2,040 kg/ha | -18.6% |
| 1999 | 2,028 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2000 | 1,500 kg/ha | -26.0% |
| 2001 | 1,131 kg/ha | -24.6% |
| 2002 | 1,056 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2003 | 1,116 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2004 | 1,191 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2005 | 1,188 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2006 | 1,221 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2007 | 1,753 kg/ha | +43.6% |
| 2008 | 1,786 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2009 | 1,803 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2010 | 1,560 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 2011 | 1,437 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2012 | 1,323 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2013 | 1,303 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2014 | 1,726 kg/ha | +32.5% |
| 2015 | 1,450 kg/ha | -16.0% |
| 2016 | 1,608 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 2017 | 2,088 kg/ha | +29.8% |
| 2018 | 2,000 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2019 | 1,759 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 2020 | 1,685 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2021 | 2,946 kg/ha | +74.9% |
| 2022 | 2,961 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 2,362 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 2024 | 2,088 kg/ha | -11.6% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Western 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | +74.9% | 1,685 kg/ha | 2,946 kg/ha |
| 1993 | +58.3% | 1,462 kg/ha | 2,314 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,668 kg/ha | 1,607 kg/ha | 1,791 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,663 kg/ha | 1,366 kg/ha | 1,967 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,810 kg/ha | 1,199 kg/ha | 2,198 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,923 kg/ha | 983.3 kg/ha | 2,505 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,374 kg/ha | 1,056 kg/ha | 1,803 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,625 kg/ha | 1,303 kg/ha | 2,088 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,408 kg/ha | 1,685 kg/ha | 2,961 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Vegetables Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -2.77 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 2.75 % change on previous year (2024)
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- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 5.56 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 3.8 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Western Africa?
- Wheat — yield in Western Africa was 2,088 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 2,961 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Western Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 983.3 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Western Africa rank for wheat — yield?
- Western Africa ranks 23rd out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Western Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western 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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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.