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Barley seed quantity (FAO, metric tonnes) by country

Data include the amounts of the commodity in question set aside for sowing or planting (or generally for reproduction purposes, e.g. sugar cane planted, potatoes for seed, eggs for hatching and fish for bait, whether domestically produced or imported) during the reference period. Account is taken of double or...

Countries reporting
16
Highest
140,000 FAO, metric tonnes
Morocco
Lowest
0 FAO, metric tonnes
Sudan
Median
2,384 FAO, metric tonnes
Years covered
51
1961–2011
Data points
990

What the numbers show

Barley seed quantity (FAO, metric tonnes) is currently reported for 16 countries. The highest value is 140,000 FAO, metric tonnes in Morocco; the lowest is 0 FAO, metric tonnes in Sudan.

The median across all reporting countries is 2,384 FAO, metric tonnes, and the mean is 26,275 FAO, metric tonnes.

Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 4 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 289.7%), and the largest decrease in Mauritania (down 72.5%).

Barley seed quantity: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Morocco 140,000 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 12.6% rising
2 Algeria 92,300 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 45.3% rising
3 Ethiopia 90,000 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 46.1% rising
4 Tunisia 48,000 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 48.5% rising
5 Libya 32,700 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 17.8% rising
6 South Africa 5,611 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 11.3% rising
7 Egypt 5,000 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 19.9% volatile
8 Eritrea 3,261 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 55.0% flat
9 Kenya 1,507 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 36.6% volatile
10 Zimbabwe 1,169 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 289.7% volatile
11 Tanzania 601 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 36.6% volatile
12 Lesotho 116 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 146.8% volatile
13 Democratic Republic of the Congo 81 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 76.1% volatile
14 Mauritania 33 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 72.5% volatile
15 Rwanda 27 FAO, metric tonnes 1969 up 12.5% volatile
16 Sudan 0 FAO, metric tonnes 2010 β€” volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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About this data

Indicator
Barley seed quantity (FAO, metric tonnes)
Unit
FAO, metric tonnes
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
22 places, 990 data points, 1961–2011
Last refreshed

Data include the amounts of the commodity in question set aside for sowing or planting (or generally for reproduction purposes, e.g. sugar cane planted, potatoes for seed, eggs for hatching and fish for bait, whether domestically produced or imported) during the reference period. Account is taken of double or successive sowing or planting whenever it occurs. The data of seed include also, when it is the case, the quantities necessary for sowing or planting the area relating to crops harvested green for fodder or for food.(e.g. green peas, green beans, maize for forage) Data for seed element are stored in tonnes (t). Whenever official data were not available, seed figures have been estimated either as a percentage of supply (e.g. eggs for hatching) or by multiplying a seed rate with the area under the crop of the subsequent year.