Watermelons — Yield in Southern Africa
Southern Africa: Watermelons — Yield was 18,935 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Watermelons — Yield in Southern Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for watermelons — yield in Southern Africa is 18,935 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.0% on the previous year and up 24.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — yield in Southern Africa peaked at 20,511 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 8,113 kg/ha, in 1976.
Southern Africa ranks 22nd of 31 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.
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 | 13,195 kg/ha | 12,512 kg/ha | 14,478 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 14,658 kg/ha | 13,764 kg/ha | 16,583 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 16,161 kg/ha | 15,153 kg/ha | 18,487 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 18,974 kg/ha | 18,141 kg/ha | 20,511 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Africa
More environment data for Southern Africa
- Temperature change 0.892 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.282 °C (2025)
- Industrial roundwood — Import value 35,013 1000 USD (2024)
- Wood fuel — Production 18.57 million m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, coniferous — Production 770,000 m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production 17.80 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Production 17.26 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Export quantity 427,327 m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood, non-coniferous — Production 9.63 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood — Export value 86,901 1000 USD (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — yield in Southern Africa?
- Watermelons — yield in Southern Africa was 18,935 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 20,511 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest watermelons — yield recorded in Southern Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,113 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Southern Africa rank for watermelons — yield?
- Southern Africa ranks 22nd out of 31 groups with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — yield rising or falling in Southern Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern 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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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.