Watermelons — Yield in South Africa
South Africa: Watermelons — Yield was 16,468 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Watermelons — Yield in South Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
South Africa recorded 16,468 kg/ha for watermelons — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.5% on the previous year and up 5.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — yield in South Africa peaked at 16,468 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 8,113 kg/ha, in 1976.
South Africa ranks 27th 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 | 10,369 kg/ha | 9,680 kg/ha | 11,044 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,495 kg/ha | 8,113 kg/ha | 12,486 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11,267 kg/ha | 8,652 kg/ha | 12,938 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 13,192 kg/ha | 12,512 kg/ha | 14,460 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,652 kg/ha | 13,599 kg/ha | 16,418 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 15,664 kg/ha | 15,235 kg/ha | 16,100 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,342 kg/ha | 16,198 kg/ha | 16,468 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near South Africa
More environment data for South Africa
- Standard Deviation 0.275 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.05 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 1.18 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 2.03 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import value 30,837 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import quantity 7,586 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export value 272,220 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export quantity 385,631 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import value 516,696 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import quantity 472,308 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — yield in South Africa?
- Watermelons — yield in South Africa was 16,468 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — yield recorded in South Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 16,468 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest watermelons — yield recorded in South Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,113 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does South Africa rank for watermelons — yield?
- South Africa ranks 27th out of 31 groups with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — yield rising or falling in South Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South Africa 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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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.