Capture fisheries production in Uganda

Capture fisheries in Uganda landed 538,160 tonnes in 2024.

Measure: Capture fisheries production Unit: Metric tonnes Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Uganda, 2024 538,160 Metric tonnes
Change from 2023 −24.9% 2023: 716,513 tonnes
World, 2024 94,403,126 tonnes Official aggregate
Position in 2024 33rd of 215 See the full ranking

Capture fisheries production in Uganda over time

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Metric tonnes. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Capture fisheries production (metric tonnes), 2000 to 2024
Period UgandaWorld
2024 538,160 tonnes 94,403,126 tonnes
2023 716,513 tonnes 92,981,262 tonnes
2022 444,935 tonnes 93,221,970 tonnes
2021 634,595 tonnes 93,590,253 tonnes
2020 578,684 tonnes 91,609,572 tonnes
2019 603,724 tonnes 94,910,375 tonnes
2018 439,904 tonnes 98,740,431 tonnes
2017 389,629 tonnes 95,664,397 tonnes
2016 382,303 tonnes 92,195,579 tonnes
2015 396,705 tonnes 94,357,557 tonnes
2014 461,711 tonnes 93,466,633 tonnes
2013 419,249 tonnes 93,116,007 tonnes
2012 408,043 tonnes 91,395,933 tonnes
2011 437,415 tonnes 94,143,395 tonnes
2010 413,805 tonnes 89,688,933 tonnes
2009 412,000 tonnes 91,445,934 tonnes
2008 403,790 tonnes 92,325,811 tonnes
2007 431,500 tonnes 93,503,695 tonnes
2006 367,099 tonnes 93,672,351 tonnes
2005 417,058 tonnes 95,594,652 tonnes
2004 372,389 tonnes 95,878,960 tonnes
2003 241,812 tonnes 91,084,188 tonnes
2002 221,898 tonnes 93,786,009 tonnes
2001 221,626 tonnes 93,409,856 tonnes
2000 219,864 tonnes 96,170,993 tonnes

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −24.9% from 716,513 tonnes in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 461,711 tonnes, the figure has changed by +16.6%.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Uganda has the 33rd highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 94,403,126 tonnes.

Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
ER.FSH.CAPT.MT · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for Uganda
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)