Lentils, dry — 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
Lentils, dry — Yield is currently reported for 63 countries. The highest value is 5,000 kg/ha in Germany; the lowest is 219.3 kg/ha in Israel.
The median across all reporting countries is 1,002 kg/ha, and the mean is 1,124 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 23.
Over the past decade 40 countries rose and 23 fell. The largest increase was in Cyprus (up 557.9%), and the largest decrease in Czechia (down 68.4%).
Lentils, dry — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 5,000 kg/ha | 1991 | up 33.3% | volatile |
| 2 | China, mainland | 2,574 kg/ha | 2024 | up 23.5% | rising |
| 2 | China | 2,574 kg/ha | 2024 | up 23.5% | rising |
| 4 | Egypt | 2,539 kg/ha | 2024 | up 23.5% | rising |
| 5 | New Zealand | 2,470 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 6 | Yugoslav SFR | 2,165 kg/ha | 1991 | up 116.5% | rising |
| 7 | Croatia | 2,086 kg/ha | 2017 | up 34.2% | rising |
| 8 | Tajikistan | 1,782 kg/ha | 2024 | up 37.1% | volatile |
| 9 | Türkiye | 1,672 kg/ha | 2024 | up 18.0% | rising |
| 10 | Azerbaijan | 1,522 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.4% | rising |
| 11 | Ukraine | 1,506 kg/ha | 2024 | up 318.4% | volatile |
| 12 | Bangladesh | 1,480 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.5% | rising |
| 13 | Canada | 1,436 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.0% | rising |
| 14 | Ethiopia | 1,371 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.3% | rising |
| 15 | Armenia | 1,325 kg/ha | 2024 | down 41.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Bulgaria | 1,324 kg/ha | 2017 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 17 | Kazakhstan | 1,300 kg/ha | 2024 | up 23.9% | falling |
| 18 | France | 1,288 kg/ha | 2017 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 19 | Australia and New Zealand | 1,221 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.9% | falling |
| 20 | Australia | 1,220 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.8% | rising |
| 21 | Iraq | 1,200 kg/ha | 2024 | down 18.9% | volatile |
| 22 | Slovakia | 1,173 kg/ha | 2017 | up 67.4% | falling |
| 23 | Mexico | 1,162 kg/ha | 2024 | up 18.2% | rising |
| 24 | Palestine | 1,157 kg/ha | 2022 | down 14.4% | volatile |
| 25 | Yemen | 1,151 kg/ha | 2024 | up 40.0% | rising |
| 26 | Greece | 1,124 kg/ha | 2017 | up 23.2% | rising |
| 27 | Jordan | 1,116 kg/ha | 2024 | up 40.3% | volatile |
| 28 | Nepal | 1,048 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.9% | rising |
| 29 | India | 1,028 kg/ha | 2024 | up 35.5% | rising |
| 30 | Argentina | 1,020 kg/ha | 2024 | down 26.7% | rising |
| 31 | Russian Federation | 1,013 kg/ha | 2024 | up 28.1% | rising |
| 32 | Syrian Arab Republic | 1,002 kg/ha | 2024 | up 49.0% | rising |
| 33 | Uzbekistan | 973.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 34 | Czechoslovakia | 962.3 kg/ha | 1992 | up 327.9% | rising |
| 35 | Peru | 887.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.0% | rising |
| 36 | North Macedonia | 864.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 29.4% | rising |
| 37 | Romania | 857.1 kg/ha | 1967 | up 40.3% | flat |
| 38 | Algeria | 851.4 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | volatile |
| 39 | Hungary | 833.3 kg/ha | 2017 | down 37.5% | volatile |
| 40 | Kenya | 795.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.8% | falling |
| 41 | USSR | 786.5 kg/ha | 1991 | up 77.0% | falling |
| 42 | Pakistan | 763.7 kg/ha | 2024 | up 73.3% | rising |
| 43 | Lebanon | 750 kg/ha | 2024 | down 43.0% | rising |
| 44 | Bhutan | 746.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 45 | Ecuador | 744.1 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | rising |
| 46 | Italy | 735.4 kg/ha | 2017 | up 0.2% | falling |
| 47 | Myanmar | 693.4 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.2% | rising |
| 48 | Madagascar | 686.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 49 | Spain | 667.2 kg/ha | 2017 | down 22.2% | rising |
| 50 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 603.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.7% | falling |
| 51 | Ethiopia PDR | 579.1 kg/ha | 1992 | down 21.0% | rising |
| 52 | Libya | 533.3 kg/ha | 1971 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 53 | Malawi | 528.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 19.8% | rising |
| 54 | Cyprus | 526.3 kg/ha | 2017 | up 557.9% | falling |
| 55 | Caribbean | 514.2 kg/ha | 2006 | up 52.2% | rising |
| 55 | Martinique | 514.2 kg/ha | 2006 | up 52.2% | rising |
| 57 | Tunisia | 499.9 kg/ha | 2024 | up 16.3% | rising |
| 58 | Chile | 426.8 kg/ha | 2024 | down 18.7% | rising |
| 59 | Morocco | 335.3 kg/ha | 2024 | down 49.9% | rising |
| 60 | Colombia | 297.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.7% | falling |
| 61 | Czechia | 293.4 kg/ha | 2006 | down 68.4% | falling |
| 62 | Eritrea | 273.8 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.3% | falling |
| 63 | Israel | 219.3 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.9% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Eastern Asia 2,574 kg/ha
- Western Asia 1,475 kg/ha
- Northern America 1,381 kg/ha
- Americas 1,373 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 1,314 kg/ha
- Central Asia 1,300 kg/ha
- Western Europe 1,288 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 1,258 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 1,243 kg/ha
- World 1,228 kg/ha
- Oceania 1,221 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1,191 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.