Watermelons — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Watermelons — Yield was 14,679 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Watermelons — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for watermelons — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is 14,679 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.9% on the previous year and down 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 21,540 kg/ha in 1986 and was at its lowest, 10,713 kg/ha, in 2015.
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 30th of 31 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,296 kg/ha | 11,821 kg/ha | 15,679 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 16,785 kg/ha | 15,072 kg/ha | 18,761 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 20,423 kg/ha | 19,656 kg/ha | 21,540 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 17,110 kg/ha | 13,540 kg/ha | 18,921 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 16,034 kg/ha | 11,568 kg/ha | 17,972 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 13,308 kg/ha | 10,713 kg/ha | 14,778 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 14,508 kg/ha | 13,736 kg/ha | 15,524 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
More environment data for Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
- Standard Deviation 0.229 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.29 °C (2025)
- Agriculture — Area 836,181 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 0.82 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 3.21 g/Int$ (2024)
- Country area — Area 2.08 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area — Area 2.04 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 11 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 26.79 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 223,929 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Watermelons — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 14,679 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 21,540 kg/ha in 1986.
- What is the lowest watermelons — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 10,713 kg/ha in 2015.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for watermelons — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 30th out of 31 groups with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Watermelons — 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.