Castor oil seeds — 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...
What the numbers show
Castor oil seeds — Yield is currently reported for 48 countries. The highest value is 3,000 kg/ha in Mexico; the lowest is 79.1 kg/ha in Togo.
The median across all reporting countries is 719.5 kg/ha, and the mean is 908.34 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 38.
Over the past decade 25 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Romania (up 298.4%), and the largest decrease in Indonesia (down 73.1%).
Castor oil seeds — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mexico | 3,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 67.9% | volatile |
| 2 | Syrian Arab Republic | 2,319 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.9% | volatile |
| 3 | China, mainland | 2,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 130.0% | rising |
| 3 | China | 2,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 130.0% | rising |
| 5 | India | 1,918 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.7% | volatile |
| 6 | Ethiopia | 1,842 kg/ha | 2024 | down 13.1% | rising |
| 7 | Libya | 1,818 kg/ha | 1972 | up 115.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 1,685 kg/ha | 2024 | down 15.8% | volatile |
| 9 | Ecuador | 1,638 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 10 | Yugoslav SFR | 1,500 kg/ha | 1991 | down 36.0% | falling |
| 11 | Peru | 1,360 kg/ha | 1984 | down 32.8% | falling |
| 12 | Republic of Korea | 1,043 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 13 | Pakistan | 1,010 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | rising |
| 14 | Paraguay | 1,000 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.1% | flat |
| 14 | Romania | 1,000 kg/ha | 1999 | up 298.4% | falling |
| 14 | Ethiopia PDR | 1,000 kg/ha | 1992 | unchanged | rising |
| 17 | Viet Nam | 875 kg/ha | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 18 | Cambodia | 870.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | falling |
| 19 | Brazil | 858 kg/ha | 2024 | up 45.0% | falling |
| 20 | Thailand | 857.1 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.4% | falling |
| 21 | Cabo Verde | 827.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 22 | Myanmar | 816.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 23 | Kenya | 750 kg/ha | 2024 | up 225.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Benin | 727.7 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 25 | Bangladesh | 711.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.3% | rising |
| 26 | Philippines | 709.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 24.3% | falling |
| 27 | USSR | 619.8 kg/ha | 1991 | up 105.1% | rising |
| 28 | Morocco | 598.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.0% | falling |
| 29 | Haiti | 592.1 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 29 | Caribbean | 592.1 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 31 | Nicaragua | 583.3 kg/ha | 1983 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 32 | Ukraine | 555.6 kg/ha | 2002 | up 99.5% | rising |
| 33 | Dominican Republic | 543.5 kg/ha | 1984 | up 37.5% | rising |
| 34 | United Republic of Tanzania | 500 kg/ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 34 | Bulgaria | 500 kg/ha | 1974 | down 22.5% | rising |
| 34 | Sudan | 500 kg/ha | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 34 | Argentina | 500 kg/ha | 1979 | down 48.1% | rising |
| 34 | Italy | 500 kg/ha | 1967 | down 58.3% | falling |
| 34 | Sudan (former) | 500 kg/ha | 2011 | unchanged | falling |
| 40 | Mozambique | 365.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 41 | Madagascar | 357.4 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 42 | Russian Federation | 347.1 kg/ha | 2024 | down 64.1% | falling |
| 43 | Uganda | 333.3 kg/ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 43 | El Salvador | 333.3 kg/ha | 1985 | down 16.7% | rising |
| 45 | Angola | 255.9 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | falling |
| 46 | Burundi | 200 kg/ha | 1973 | unchanged | flat |
| 47 | Indonesia | 109.1 kg/ha | 2024 | down 73.1% | falling |
| 48 | Togo | 79.1 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.7% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Central America 3,000 kg/ha
- Western Asia 2,319 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 2,000 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 1,913 kg/ha
- Asia 1,857 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 1,500 kg/ha
- World 1,492 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1,234 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 1,000 kg/ha
- South America 898.5 kg/ha
- Americas 883.7 kg/ha
- South-eastern Asia 765.1 kg/ha
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.