Lemons and limes — 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
115
Highest
64,365 kg/ha
Albania
Lowest
473.7 kg/ha
Kyrgyzstan
Median
12,023 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
7,282

What the numbers show

Lemons and limes — Yield is currently reported for 115 countries. The highest value is 64,365 kg/ha in Albania; the lowest is 473.7 kg/ha in Kyrgyzstan.

The median across all reporting countries is 12,023 kg/ha, and the mean is 13,501 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 136.

Over the past decade 68 countries rose and 47 fell. The largest increase was in Guyana (up 1,526.1%), and the largest decrease in Puerto Rico (down 72.5%).

Lemons and limes — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Albania 64,365 kg/ha 2024 up 668.1% volatile
2 Guyana 50,522 kg/ha 2024 up 1,526.1% volatile
3 United Arab Emirates 42,270 kg/ha 2024 up 32.0% volatile
4 Zimbabwe 42,000 kg/ha 2024 up 2.7% volatile
5 Greece 34,389 kg/ha 2024 up 181.3% rising
6 Türkiye 31,872 kg/ha 2024 up 21.6% rising
7 Argentina 31,252 kg/ha 2024 down 2.5% rising
8 Honduras 30,021 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% volatile
9 Chile 27,892 kg/ha 2024 up 8.5% rising
10 Israel 26,639 kg/ha 2024 down 21.7% rising
11 Palestine 26,298 kg/ha 2022 down 8.8% rising
12 Brazil 25,176 kg/ha 2024 down 0.8% volatile
13 Australia 23,168 kg/ha 2024 down 2.2% rising
14 Uruguay 23,093 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% volatile
15 China, mainland 22,863 kg/ha 2024 up 3.0% volatile
16 Australia and New Zealand 22,854 kg/ha 2024 up 4.0% rising
17 Guatemala 22,798 kg/ha 2024 up 15.0% falling
18 China 22,679 kg/ha 2024 up 2.6% volatile
19 Algeria 22,366 kg/ha 2024 up 0.8% rising
20 Jordan 22,261 kg/ha 2024 up 35.0% rising
21 Saudi Arabia 22,212 kg/ha 2024 up 11.7% rising
22 Seychelles 21,868 kg/ha 2024 up 20.1% rising
23 Kuwait 21,569 kg/ha 2024 up 9.5% rising
24 Costa Rica 21,296 kg/ha 2024 up 4.7% rising
25 Portugal 21,270 kg/ha 2024 up 34.9% rising
26 Cook Islands 20,970 kg/ha 2024 up 689.0% volatile
27 Egypt 20,262 kg/ha 2024 down 8.0% rising
28 New Zealand 19,453 kg/ha 2024 up 18.0% falling
29 Paraguay 18,581 kg/ha 2024 down 7.1% rising
30 Lebanon 18,357 kg/ha 2024 down 35.3% falling
31 Spain 18,047 kg/ha 2024 down 37.5% rising
32 Syrian Arab Republic 17,822 kg/ha 2024 down 20.0% volatile
33 Morocco 17,535 kg/ha 2024 up 82.9% falling
34 Italy 17,480 kg/ha 2024 up 22.7% falling
35 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 17,138 kg/ha 2024 down 7.2% rising
36 Jamaica 17,020 kg/ha 2024 up 8.1% rising
37 Suriname 15,874 kg/ha 2024 down 11.8% volatile
38 Grenada 15,767 kg/ha 2024 up 1.5% flat
39 Uzbekistan 15,745 kg/ha 2024 up 35.4% rising
40 Japan 15,665 kg/ha 2024 down 14.4% rising
41 El Salvador 15,628 kg/ha 2024 up 5.0% rising
42 Mexico 15,263 kg/ha 2024 up 8.3% rising
43 Saint Lucia 15,197 kg/ha 2024 up 66.2% volatile
44 Democratic Republic of the Congo 15,133 kg/ha 2024 down 0.4% rising
45 Tunisia 14,917 kg/ha 2024 up 1.9% rising
46 Peru 14,651 kg/ha 2024 up 8.8% flat
47 Malta 14,509 kg/ha 2017 down 2.6% flat
48 China, Taiwan Province of 14,441 kg/ha 2024 down 20.0% rising
49 Sudan (former) 14,199 kg/ha 2011 up 18.7% flat
50 Tajikistan 14,021 kg/ha 2024 up 2.2% rising
51 Bosnia and Herzegovina 14,000 kg/ha 2024 up 5.0% rising
52 Colombia 13,254 kg/ha 2024 down 7.0% falling
53 Sudan 12,829 kg/ha 2024 up 10.7% falling
54 Bahamas 12,484 kg/ha 2024 down 19.1% falling
55 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 12,373 kg/ha 2024 down 0.1% flat
56 Bahrain 12,333 kg/ha 2020 up 15.6% rising
57 Malaysia 12,188 kg/ha 2024 up 61.2% rising
58 India 12,023 kg/ha 2024 up 21.5% rising
59 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12,000 kg/ha 2024 up 60.4% rising
60 Cyprus 11,850 kg/ha 2024 down 43.6% rising
61 Yemen 11,560 kg/ha 2024 up 11.4% rising
62 Azerbaijan 11,430 kg/ha 2024 up 7.5% rising
63 Congo 11,092 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% flat
64 Kenya 11,054 kg/ha 2024 up 15.7% rising
65 Thailand 10,425 kg/ha 2024 up 18.5% volatile
66 Libya 10,312 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% falling
67 Croatia 10,125 kg/ha 2024 up 11.9% volatile
68 Cambodia 10,017 kg/ha 2024 up 8.8% rising
69 Pakistan 8,127 kg/ha 2024 down 26.3% rising
70 Nepal 7,856 kg/ha 2024 up 10.4% falling
71 Maldives 7,526 kg/ha 2024 down 5.9% falling
72 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 7,517 kg/ha 2024 up 0.9% falling
73 Mali 7,076 kg/ha 2024 down 66.8% rising
74 Lao People's Democratic Republic 7,067 kg/ha 2024 down 13.2% rising
75 Burkina Faso 6,988 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
76 Ghana 6,801 kg/ha 2024 up 5.3% rising
77 Ecuador 6,624 kg/ha 2024 up 57.1% volatile
78 Dominica 6,202 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% flat
79 Guinea-Bissau 6,116 kg/ha 2024 up 0.5% rising
80 Ethiopia PDR 6,111 kg/ha 1992 up 3.7% rising
81 United Republic of Tanzania 5,843 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% rising
82 Somalia 5,793 kg/ha 2024 down 7.5% rising
83 Malawi 5,677 kg/ha 2024 up 3.0% flat
84 Djibouti 5,403 kg/ha 2024 down 0.6% flat
85 France 5,387 kg/ha 2024 up 19.2% falling
86 Melanesia 5,280 kg/ha 2024 up 62.8% rising
87 Antigua and Barbuda 5,162 kg/ha 2024 up 13.5% rising
88 Trinidad and Tobago 5,049 kg/ha 2024 up 2.2% rising
89 Oman 4,762 kg/ha 2024 down 3.2% rising
90 Martinique 4,383 kg/ha 2006 up 1.0% falling
91 Brunei Darussalam 4,317 kg/ha 2024 up 3.5% falling
92 Guadeloupe 4,244 kg/ha 2006 down 1.0% falling
93 Rwanda 4,215 kg/ha 2024 down 10.8% rising
94 Haiti 4,185 kg/ha 2024 down 4.8% falling
95 Ethiopia 4,130 kg/ha 2024 down 35.3% falling
96 Panama 3,959 kg/ha 2024 down 69.7% volatile
97 Niue 3,850 kg/ha 2024 up 1.3% falling
98 Cuba 3,770 kg/ha 2024 down 57.3% rising
99 New Caledonia 3,461 kg/ha 2024 up 6.7% rising
100 Mozambique 3,397 kg/ha 2024 down 3.7% flat
101 Madagascar 3,297 kg/ha 2024 down 3.3% volatile
102 Bhutan 3,071 kg/ha 2024 down 2.3% falling
103 Georgia 2,906 kg/ha 2024 down 4.2% volatile
104 Caribbean 2,403 kg/ha 2024 down 56.6% volatile
105 Philippines 2,034 kg/ha 2024 up 2.5% volatile
106 Polynesia 1,991 kg/ha 2024 down 3.9% falling
107 Tonga 1,986 kg/ha 2024 down 3.8% falling
108 French Guiana 1,952 kg/ha 2006 down 36.5% rising
109 Dominican Republic 1,844 kg/ha 2024 down 57.1% volatile
110 French Polynesia 1,825 kg/ha 2024 down 3.2% falling
111 Iraq 1,484 kg/ha 2024 down 5.3% volatile
112 Bangladesh 1,222 kg/ha 2024 down 71.7% flat
113 Sri Lanka 1,137 kg/ha 2024 up 107.8% volatile
114 Puerto Rico 674 kg/ha 2024 down 72.5% volatile
115 Kyrgyzstan 473.7 kg/ha 2024 down 5.3% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Lemons and limes — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
146 places, 7,282 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.