Cantaloupes and other melons — Yield by country

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...

Countries reporting
105
Highest
103,000 kg/ha
Denmark
Lowest
542.9 kg/ha
Puerto Rico
Median
18,570 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
6,984

What the numbers show

Cantaloupes and other melons — Yield is currently reported for 105 countries. The highest value is 103,000 kg/ha in Denmark; the lowest is 542.9 kg/ha in Puerto Rico.

The median across all reporting countries is 18,570 kg/ha, and the mean is 21,365 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 190.

Over the past decade 58 countries rose and 47 fell. The largest increase was in El Salvador (up 370.2%), and the largest decrease in Puerto Rico (down 97.5%).

Cantaloupes and other melons — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Denmark 103,000 kg/ha 1985 up 68.2% rising
2 Honduras 53,464 kg/ha 2024 up 6.9% volatile
3 Bahrain 52,941 kg/ha 2024 up 6.8% volatile
4 Guatemala 51,135 kg/ha 2024 up 136.0% rising
5 United Arab Emirates 44,690 kg/ha 2024 up 199.1% volatile
6 Republic of Korea 44,512 kg/ha 2024 up 54.3% rising
7 Palestine 43,256 kg/ha 2022 up 43.1% rising
8 Jordan 39,264 kg/ha 2024 up 33.4% volatile
9 Kuwait 37,761 kg/ha 2024 up 22.7% rising
10 Spain 35,086 kg/ha 2024 up 11.3% rising
11 China, mainland 35,045 kg/ha 2024 up 6.2% rising
12 China 34,842 kg/ha 2024 up 6.5% rising
13 Albania 34,758 kg/ha 2024 up 28.4% rising
14 Cyprus 34,733 kg/ha 2024 down 50.7% volatile
15 Morocco 34,140 kg/ha 2024 up 4.9% rising
16 Australia 33,925 kg/ha 2024 down 5.2% rising
17 Australia and New Zealand 33,351 kg/ha 2024 down 4.3% rising
18 Hungary 32,659 kg/ha 2024 up 58.5% volatile
19 Mexico 31,320 kg/ha 2024 up 8.8% rising
20 Portugal 30,408 kg/ha 2024 down 5.2% volatile
21 Italy 29,362 kg/ha 2024 up 31.1% rising
22 Canada 28,219 kg/ha 2024 up 4.6% rising
23 Croatia 27,562 kg/ha 2024 up 42.3% rising
24 Egypt 27,533 kg/ha 2024 down 1.6% rising
25 Saudi Arabia 26,932 kg/ha 2024 up 35.7% flat
26 Syrian Arab Republic 26,410 kg/ha 2024 up 101.1% rising
27 Türkiye 26,186 kg/ha 2024 up 21.4% rising
28 Brazil 26,111 kg/ha 2024 down 2.6% volatile
29 El Salvador 26,026 kg/ha 2024 up 370.2% rising
30 Oman 25,792 kg/ha 2024 up 1.8% rising
31 Greece 25,683 kg/ha 2024 up 13.0% rising
32 Costa Rica 25,076 kg/ha 2024 down 31.9% rising
33 Japan 25,060 kg/ha 2024 up 9.2% rising
34 Kazakhstan 24,799 kg/ha 2024 up 16.8% rising
35 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 24,739 kg/ha 2017 down 24.7% falling
36 Barbados 24,000 kg/ha 2024 up 11.9% rising
37 Djibouti 23,976 kg/ha 2024 up 4.3% rising
38 Czechoslovakia 23,973 kg/ha 1992 down 13.3% rising
39 Niger 23,639 kg/ha 2024 down 8.5% volatile
40 Sudan 23,189 kg/ha 2024 down 7.2% rising
41 India 23,129 kg/ha 2024 up 12.5% rising
42 France 22,850 kg/ha 2024 up 27.2% rising
43 South Sudan 22,441 kg/ha 2024 down 0.7% flat
44 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 22,206 kg/ha 2024 up 13.6% rising
45 Montenegro 21,577 kg/ha 2024 down 16.9% falling
46 Uruguay 21,521 kg/ha 2024 down 11.2% volatile
47 Malta 20,906 kg/ha 2017 down 4.4% volatile
48 Lebanon 20,903 kg/ha 2024 down 1.3% rising
49 Pakistan 20,812 kg/ha 2024 up 63.4% rising
50 Bangladesh 20,573 kg/ha 2024 down 14.8% rising
51 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 20,273 kg/ha 2024 up 1.0% rising
52 North Macedonia 20,000 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% flat
53 Solomon Islands 18,570 kg/ha 2024 up 6.9% rising
54 Azerbaijan 18,497 kg/ha 2024 up 35.8% rising
55 Israel 18,326 kg/ha 2024 up 5.7% rising
56 Peru 18,063 kg/ha 2024 down 13.2% rising
57 Georgia 18,000 kg/ha 2024 up 20.7% rising
58 Melanesia 17,648 kg/ha 2024 up 1.4% flat
59 Grenada 17,163 kg/ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
60 Slovakia 17,000 kg/ha 2024 up 66.1% rising
61 Guadeloupe 16,426 kg/ha 2006 down 2.7% falling
62 Zimbabwe 16,200 kg/ha 2024 up 6.7% rising
63 Jamaica 15,862 kg/ha 2024 up 23.0% rising
64 Indonesia 15,679 kg/ha 2024 down 3.6% rising
65 Iraq 15,640 kg/ha 2024 up 51.7% rising
66 Argentina 15,465 kg/ha 2024 down 3.9% rising
67 Qatar 15,378 kg/ha 2024 up 34.4% rising
68 Libya 15,167 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% rising
69 Mali 14,825 kg/ha 2024 up 196.5% rising
70 New Zealand 14,587 kg/ha 2024 up 2.8% rising
71 Slovenia 14,500 kg/ha 2024 down 63.8% falling
72 Chile 14,280 kg/ha 2024 down 0.8% falling
73 Sudan (former) 14,258 kg/ha 2011 down 39.3% falling
74 Panama 13,971 kg/ha 2024 up 281.4% falling
75 Colombia 13,874 kg/ha 2024 up 10.2% falling
76 Haiti 13,768 kg/ha 2024 up 0.0% rising
77 Dominican Republic 13,759 kg/ha 2024 down 47.8% rising
78 Belize 13,456 kg/ha 2024 up 21.5% rising
79 China, Taiwan Province of 12,906 kg/ha 2024 down 9.3% rising
80 Sri Lanka 11,861 kg/ha 2024 up 10.6% flat
81 Fiji 11,800 kg/ha 2024 down 32.6% falling
82 Yemen 11,624 kg/ha 2024 up 15.6% falling
83 Lao People's Democratic Republic 10,965 kg/ha 2024 down 22.7% rising
84 Afghanistan 10,821 kg/ha 2024 down 10.3% rising
85 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 10,726 kg/ha 2024 down 0.5% flat
86 Romania 10,614 kg/ha 2024 down 20.7% rising
87 Tunisia 10,578 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% falling
88 Ecuador 10,566 kg/ha 2024 down 0.5% rising
89 Caribbean 10,286 kg/ha 2024 down 9.0% rising
90 Guinea 10,081 kg/ha 2024 down 0.1% flat
91 Martinique 9,879 kg/ha 2006 down 39.4% falling
92 Cameroon 9,630 kg/ha 2024 up 1.9% rising
93 Namibia 9,390 kg/ha 2024 down 2.3% falling
94 Bulgaria 9,166 kg/ha 2024 down 4.6% flat
95 Senegal 9,024 kg/ha 2024 up 80.5% rising
96 Cuba 7,872 kg/ha 2024 up 5.5% falling
97 Antigua and Barbuda 6,894 kg/ha 2024 down 31.3% flat
98 Ukraine 5,754 kg/ha 2024 down 19.3% rising
99 Republic of Moldova 4,322 kg/ha 2024 up 11.7% volatile
100 Philippines 4,130 kg/ha 2024 down 55.3% falling
101 Paraguay 3,917 kg/ha 2024 up 1.9% falling
102 French Polynesia 2,996 kg/ha 2024 down 27.3% falling
102 Polynesia 2,996 kg/ha 2024 down 27.3% falling
104 Switzerland 1,833 kg/ha 2024 down 63.3% volatile
105 Puerto Rico 542.9 kg/ha 2024 down 97.5% volatile

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Cantaloupes and other melons — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
137 places, 6,984 data points, 1961–2024
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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.