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...

Countries reporting
63
Highest
5,000 kg/ha
Germany
Lowest
219.3 kg/ha
Israel
Median
1,002 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,364

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

About this data

Indicator
Lentils, dry — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
89 places, 4,364 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.