Flax, raw or retted — 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
Flax, raw or retted — Yield is currently reported for 38 countries. The highest value is 6,691 kg/ha in France; the lowest is 0 kg/ha in Austria.
The median across all reporting countries is 947.8 kg/ha, and the mean is 1,578 kg/ha.
Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 18 fell. The largest increase was in Poland (up 952.4%), and the largest decrease in Austria (down 100.0%).
Flax, raw or retted — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | 6,691 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.4% | volatile |
| 2 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 5,500 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | volatile |
| 3 | Belgium | 4,922 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.6% | volatile |
| 4 | China, mainland | 4,265 kg/ha | 2024 | down 13.8% | rising |
| 5 | Spain | 3,500 kg/ha | 2024 | up 232.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Romania | 3,080 kg/ha | 2024 | up 105.3% | volatile |
| 7 | Czechia | 2,538 kg/ha | 2010 | up 42.3% | falling |
| 8 | Poland | 2,325 kg/ha | 2024 | up 952.4% | volatile |
| 9 | Italy | 2,164 kg/ha | 2024 | down 33.5% | volatile |
| 10 | Latvia | 2,000 kg/ha | 2020 | down 47.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Estonia | 1,971 kg/ha | 2002 | up 103.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Bulgaria | 1,820 kg/ha | 2021 | down 15.4% | volatile |
| 13 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 1,465 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 14 | Slovakia | 1,306 kg/ha | 2017 | up 30.6% | falling |
| 15 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 1,258 kg/ha | 1999 | up 33.6% | flat |
| 16 | New Zealand | 1,125 kg/ha | 1980 | up 10.8% | rising |
| 17 | Chile | 1,069 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.2% | rising |
| 18 | Belarus | 1,049 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 19 | Sweden | 962.3 kg/ha | 1965 | — | falling |
| 20 | Portugal | 933.3 kg/ha | 1983 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 21 | Argentina | 928.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 22 | Egypt | 895.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 23 | Türkiye | 785.7 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 24 | Czechoslovakia | 742.2 kg/ha | 1992 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 25 | Russian Federation | 741.5 kg/ha | 2024 | down 17.9% | rising |
| 26 | Denmark | 719.7 kg/ha | 1970 | down 28.0% | falling |
| 27 | Lithuania | 690 kg/ha | 2015 | down 24.9% | rising |
| 28 | Croatia | 663.3 kg/ha | 2017 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 29 | Ukraine | 583.3 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.1% | rising |
| 30 | Germany | 555.9 kg/ha | 1979 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 31 | China, Taiwan Province of | 551 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 32 | Hungary | 514 kg/ha | 1991 | down 37.7% | rising |
| 33 | USSR | 476.3 kg/ha | 1991 | up 71.3% | rising |
| 34 | Japan | 400 kg/ha | 1983 | down 33.3% | falling |
| 35 | Republic of Korea | 272.7 kg/ha | 1972 | up 178.6% | volatile |
| 36 | Yugoslav SFR | 266.7 kg/ha | 1991 | down 65.8% | volatile |
| 37 | Greece | 250 kg/ha | 1972 | up 44.5% | volatile |
| 38 | Austria | 0 kg/ha | 2016 | down 100.0% | volatile |
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.