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...

Countries reporting
49
Highest
3,000 kg/ha
Mexico
Lowest
79.1 kg/ha
Togo
Median
727.7 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,839

What the numbers show

Castor oil seeds — Yield is currently reported for 49 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 727.7 kg/ha, and the mean is 904.74 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 38.

Over the past decade 26 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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Mexico 3,000 kg/ha 2024 up 67.9% volatile
1 Syrian Arab Republic 2,319 kg/ha 2024 up 10.9% volatile
2 China, mainland 2,000 kg/ha 2024 up 130.0% rising
2 China 2,000 kg/ha 2024 up 130.0% rising
3 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,685 kg/ha 2024 down 15.8% volatile
4 India 1,918 kg/ha 2024 up 11.7% volatile
4 Viet Nam 875 kg/ha 2024 unchanged rising
5 Ethiopia 1,842 kg/ha 2024 down 13.1% rising
6 Libya 1,818 kg/ha 1972 up 115.1% volatile
6 United Republic of Tanzania 500 kg/ha 2024 unchanged falling
7 Ecuador 1,638 kg/ha 2024 up 9.2% rising
8 Yugoslav SFR 1,500 kg/ha 1991 down 36.0% falling
9 Peru 1,360 kg/ha 1984 down 32.8% falling
10 Republic of Korea 1,043 kg/ha 2024 up 3.1% rising
11 Pakistan 1,010 kg/ha 2024 down 3.8% rising
11 Cabo Verde 827.3 kg/ha 2024 up 4.8% rising
12 Romania 1,000 kg/ha 1999 up 298.4% falling
12 Ethiopia PDR 1,000 kg/ha 1992 unchanged rising
12 Paraguay 1,000 kg/ha 2024 down 11.1% flat
15 Cambodia 870.2 kg/ha 2024 down 1.6% falling
16 Brazil 858 kg/ha 2024 up 45.0% falling
16 Caribbean 592.1 kg/ha 2024 up 1.4% rising
17 Thailand 857.1 kg/ha 2024 up 4.4% falling
18 Myanmar 816.6 kg/ha 2024 up 2.0% rising
19 Kenya 750 kg/ha 2024 up 225.0% volatile
20 South Africa 731.8 kg/ha 2024 up 0.5% rising
21 Benin 727.7 kg/ha 2024 up 7.1% rising
22 Bangladesh 711.3 kg/ha 2024 up 1.3% rising
23 Philippines 709.2 kg/ha 2024 up 24.3% falling
24 USSR 619.8 kg/ha 1991 up 105.1% rising
25 Morocco 598.2 kg/ha 2024 up 0.0% falling
26 Haiti 592.1 kg/ha 2024 up 1.4% rising
27 Nicaragua 583.3 kg/ha 1983 down 1.6% flat
28 Ukraine 555.6 kg/ha 2002 up 99.5% rising
29 Dominican Republic 543.5 kg/ha 1984 up 37.5% rising
30 Sudan 500 kg/ha 2024 unchanged flat
30 Sudan (former) 500 kg/ha 2011 unchanged falling
30 Italy 500 kg/ha 1967 down 58.3% falling
30 Bulgaria 500 kg/ha 1974 down 22.5% rising
30 Argentina 500 kg/ha 1979 down 48.1% rising
35 Mozambique 365.4 kg/ha 2024 down 1.6% flat
36 Madagascar 357.4 kg/ha 2024 up 1.8% rising
37 Russian Federation 347.1 kg/ha 2024 down 64.1% falling
38 El Salvador 333.3 kg/ha 1985 down 16.7% rising
38 Uganda 333.3 kg/ha 2024 unchanged falling
40 Angola 255.9 kg/ha 2024 up 0.5% falling
41 Burundi 200 kg/ha 1973 unchanged flat
42 Indonesia 109.1 kg/ha 2024 down 73.1% falling
43 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.

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Indicator
Castor oil seeds — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
75 places, 3,839 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.