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...
What the numbers show
Lemons and limes — Yield is currently reported for 118 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 12,011 kg/ha, and the mean is 13,489 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 136.
Over the past decade 70 countries rose and 48 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albania | 64,365 kg/ha | 2024 | up 668.1% | volatile |
| 1 | Türkiye | 31,872 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.6% | rising |
| 2 | Guyana | 50,522 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1,526.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Syrian Arab Republic | 17,822 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.0% | volatile |
| 3 | United Arab Emirates | 42,270 kg/ha | 2024 | up 32.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 17,138 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.2% | rising |
| 4 | Zimbabwe | 42,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 15,133 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 5 | Greece | 34,389 kg/ha | 2024 | up 181.3% | rising |
| 6 | Argentina | 31,252 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.5% | rising |
| 6 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 12,373 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 7 | Honduras | 30,021 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | volatile |
| 8 | Chile | 27,892 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 8 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 7,517 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.9% | falling |
| 9 | Israel | 26,639 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.7% | rising |
| 9 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 7,067 kg/ha | 2024 | down 13.2% | rising |
| 10 | Palestine | 26,298 kg/ha | 2022 | down 8.8% | rising |
| 10 | United Republic of Tanzania | 5,843 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 11 | Brazil | 25,176 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.8% | volatile |
| 11 | Melanesia | 5,280 kg/ha | 2024 | up 62.8% | rising |
| 12 | Australia | 23,168 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 13 | Uruguay | 23,093 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | volatile |
| 14 | China, mainland | 22,863 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | volatile |
| 14 | Polynesia | 1,991 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 15 | Australia and New Zealand | 22,854 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 16 | Guatemala | 22,798 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.0% | falling |
| 17 | China | 22,679 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | volatile |
| 18 | Algeria | 22,366 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | rising |
| 19 | Jordan | 22,261 kg/ha | 2024 | up 35.0% | rising |
| 20 | Saudi Arabia | 22,212 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 21 | Seychelles | 21,868 kg/ha | 2024 | up 20.1% | rising |
| 22 | South Africa | 21,833 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.6% | 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 |
| 25 | Caribbean | 2,403 kg/ha | 2024 | down 56.6% | volatile |
| 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 | Morocco | 17,535 kg/ha | 2024 | up 82.9% | falling |
| 33 | Italy | 17,480 kg/ha | 2024 | up 22.7% | falling |
| 34 | Jamaica | 17,020 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 35 | Suriname | 15,874 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.8% | volatile |
| 36 | Grenada | 15,767 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | flat |
| 37 | Uzbekistan | 15,745 kg/ha | 2024 | up 35.4% | rising |
| 38 | Japan | 15,665 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.4% | rising |
| 39 | El Salvador | 15,628 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 40 | Mexico | 15,263 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 41 | Saint Lucia | 15,197 kg/ha | 2024 | up 66.2% | volatile |
| 42 | Tunisia | 14,917 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 43 | Peru | 14,651 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.8% | flat |
| 44 | Malta | 14,509 kg/ha | 2017 | down 2.6% | flat |
| 45 | China, Taiwan Province of | 14,441 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.0% | rising |
| 46 | Sudan (former) | 14,199 kg/ha | 2011 | up 18.7% | flat |
| 47 | Tajikistan | 14,021 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 48 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 14,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 49 | Colombia | 13,254 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 50 | Sudan | 12,829 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.7% | falling |
| 51 | Bahamas | 12,484 kg/ha | 2024 | down 19.1% | falling |
| 52 | Bahrain | 12,333 kg/ha | 2020 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 53 | Malaysia | 12,188 kg/ha | 2024 | up 61.2% | rising |
| 54 | India | 12,023 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.5% | rising |
| 55 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 12,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 60.4% | rising |
| 56 | Cyprus | 11,850 kg/ha | 2024 | down 43.6% | rising |
| 57 | Réunion | 11,846 kg/ha | 2006 | up 34.7% | rising |
| 58 | Yemen | 11,560 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 59 | Azerbaijan | 11,430 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 60 | Congo | 11,092 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 61 | Kenya | 11,054 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 62 | Thailand | 10,425 kg/ha | 2024 | up 18.5% | volatile |
| 63 | Libya | 10,312 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 64 | Croatia | 10,125 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.9% | volatile |
| 65 | Cambodia | 10,017 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 66 | Pakistan | 8,127 kg/ha | 2024 | down 26.3% | rising |
| 67 | Nepal | 7,856 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.4% | falling |
| 68 | Maldives | 7,526 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 69 | Mali | 7,076 kg/ha | 2024 | down 66.8% | rising |
| 70 | Burkina Faso | 6,988 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 71 | Ghana | 6,801 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 72 | Ecuador | 6,624 kg/ha | 2024 | up 57.1% | volatile |
| 73 | Dominica | 6,202 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 74 | Guinea-Bissau | 6,116 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 75 | Ethiopia PDR | 6,111 kg/ha | 1992 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 76 | Somalia | 5,793 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.5% | rising |
| 77 | Malawi | 5,677 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | flat |
| 78 | Djibouti | 5,403 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 79 | Central African Republic | 5,400 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 80 | France | 5,387 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.2% | falling |
| 81 | Antigua and Barbuda | 5,162 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.5% | rising |
| 82 | Trinidad and Tobago | 5,049 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 83 | Oman | 4,762 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.2% | rising |
| 84 | Martinique | 4,383 kg/ha | 2006 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 85 | Brunei Darussalam | 4,317 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.5% | falling |
| 86 | Guadeloupe | 4,244 kg/ha | 2006 | down 1.0% | falling |
| 87 | Rwanda | 4,215 kg/ha | 2024 | down 10.8% | rising |
| 88 | Haiti | 4,185 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.8% | falling |
| 89 | Ethiopia | 4,130 kg/ha | 2024 | down 35.3% | falling |
| 90 | Panama | 3,959 kg/ha | 2024 | down 69.7% | volatile |
| 91 | Niue | 3,850 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.3% | falling |
| 92 | Cuba | 3,770 kg/ha | 2024 | down 57.3% | rising |
| 93 | New Caledonia | 3,461 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.7% | rising |
| 94 | Mozambique | 3,397 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 95 | Madagascar | 3,297 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.3% | volatile |
| 96 | Bhutan | 3,071 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.3% | falling |
| 97 | Georgia | 2,906 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.2% | volatile |
| 98 | Philippines | 2,034 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.5% | volatile |
| 99 | Tonga | 1,986 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | falling |
| 100 | French Guiana | 1,952 kg/ha | 2006 | down 36.5% | rising |
| 101 | Dominican Republic | 1,844 kg/ha | 2024 | down 57.1% | volatile |
| 102 | French Polynesia | 1,825 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.2% | falling |
| 103 | Iraq | 1,484 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.3% | volatile |
| 104 | Bangladesh | 1,222 kg/ha | 2024 | down 71.7% | flat |
| 105 | Sri Lanka | 1,137 kg/ha | 2024 | up 107.8% | volatile |
| 106 | Puerto Rico | 674 kg/ha | 2024 | down 72.5% | volatile |
| 107 | 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.
- Northern America 40,838 kg/ha
- United States of America 40,838 kg/ha
- Western Asia 26,047 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 22,642 kg/ha
- South America 22,296 kg/ha
- Asia 13,968 kg/ha
- Southern Africa 21,833 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 18,646 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 10,277 kg/ha
- Americas 18,297 kg/ha
- Europe 18,224 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 18,139 kg/ha
- Oceania 16,574 kg/ha
- World 15,960 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 4,921 kg/ha
- Northern Africa 15,831 kg/ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 2,591 kg/ha
- Central America 15,455 kg/ha
- Central Asia 15,159 kg/ha
- Africa 15,157 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 11,351 kg/ha
- South-Eastern Asia 10,073 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 9,940 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 9,823 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 9,366 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 7,284 kg/ha
- Western Africa 6,875 kg/ha
- Western Europe 5,387 kg/ha
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.