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. 2017 Aug 11;9(1):411. doi: 10.4102/jamba.v9i1.411

TABLE 1.

Crop yield growth rate per hectare and population growth rate.

Average Crop yield growth rate per hectare Population growth rate
1996–2016 Average 1.05% 1.27%

Source: World Bank, 2016, Arable land (hectares per person), World Bank, viewed 28 November 2017, from http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.ARBL.HA.PC and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2016, Crop production, viewed 06 June 2017, from https://data.oecd.org/agroutput/crop-production.htm