Castor oil seeds — Yield in Ecuador
Ecuador: Castor oil seeds — Yield was 1,638 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Castor oil seeds — Yield in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, castor oil seeds — yield in Ecuador stood at 1,638 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.6% on the previous year and up 9.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, castor oil seeds — yield in Ecuador peaked at 1,638 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 418 kg/ha, in 1996.
That places Ecuador 9th out of 48 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 911.37 kg/ha | 581.1 kg/ha | 1,054 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 992.44 kg/ha | 778 kg/ha | 1,136 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 806.23 kg/ha | 683.3 kg/ha | 905.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 815.89 kg/ha | 418 kg/ha | 937.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,242 kg/ha | 800 kg/ha | 1,589 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,520 kg/ha | 1,500 kg/ha | 1,599 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,628 kg/ha | 1,617 kg/ha | 1,638 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ecuador
- 6 Ethiopia 1,842 kg/ha compare
- 7 Libya 1,818 kg/ha compare
- 8 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,685 kg/ha compare
- 10 Yugoslav SFR 1,500 kg/ha compare
- 11 Peru 1,360 kg/ha compare
- 12 Republic of Korea 1,043 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 6.70 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.64 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.59 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is castor oil seeds — yield in Ecuador?
- Castor oil seeds — yield in Ecuador was 1,638 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest castor oil seeds — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 1,638 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest castor oil seeds — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 418 kg/ha in 1996.
- How does Ecuador rank for castor oil seeds — yield?
- Ecuador ranks 9th out of 48 countries with data for 2024.
- Is castor oil seeds — yield rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Castor oil seeds — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.