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...

Countries reporting
38
Highest
6,691 kg/ha
France
Lowest
0 kg/ha
Austria
Median
947.8 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
1,371

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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

Indicator
Flax, raw or retted — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
38 places, 1,371 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.