Lettuce and chicory — 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
Lettuce and chicory — Yield is currently reported for 117 countries. The highest value is 105,478 kg/ha in Puerto Rico; the lowest is 345.5 kg/ha in Djibouti.
The median across all reporting countries is 17,436 kg/ha, and the mean is 18,506 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 305.
Over the past decade 64 countries rose and 52 fell. The largest increase was in Yemen (up 477.4%), and the largest decrease in Djibouti (down 79.7%).
Lettuce and chicory — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puerto Rico | 105,478 kg/ha | 2024 | up 31.7% | rising |
| 1 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 41,662 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 2 | Bahrain | 50,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 65.1% | rising |
| 3 | Kuwait | 49,316 kg/ha | 2024 | up 33.6% | rising |
| 3 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 29,933 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 4 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 47,542 kg/ha | 1999 | down 43.1% | rising |
| 4 | Türkiye | 27,734 kg/ha | 2024 | up 32.2% | rising |
| 5 | Belgium | 43,710 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 5 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 20,891 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.1% | flat |
| 6 | Hungary | 41,458 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | volatile |
| 6 | Syrian Arab Republic | 19,924 kg/ha | 2024 | up 28.1% | rising |
| 7 | Congo | 39,588 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 8 | Germany | 31,494 kg/ha | 2024 | up 32.0% | rising |
| 9 | Sao Tome and Principe | 29,892 kg/ha | 2024 | up 42.3% | rising |
| 9 | Polynesia | 13,534 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 10 | Austria | 29,788 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.3% | rising |
| 11 | Ireland | 27,909 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.3% | flat |
| 11 | Micronesia | 7,236 kg/ha | 2024 | up 67.0% | rising |
| 12 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 27,879 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 12 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 6,508 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.6% | rising |
| 13 | Spain | 27,820 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 14 | Japan | 27,742 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 15 | Guatemala | 27,518 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.1% | rising |
| 16 | Jordan | 27,177 kg/ha | 2024 | down 29.3% | volatile |
| 17 | New Zealand | 26,810 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 18 | Saudi Arabia | 26,740 kg/ha | 2024 | up 75.3% | rising |
| 19 | Finland | 26,560 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 20 | France | 25,553 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.9% | rising |
| 21 | Republic of Korea | 25,482 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 21 | Cabo Verde | 17,250 kg/ha | 2024 | up 79.5% | falling |
| 22 | Czechia | 25,108 kg/ha | 2024 | up 99.9% | rising |
| 23 | Luxembourg | 24,750 kg/ha | 2024 | down 23.9% | rising |
| 24 | Portugal | 24,612 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.8% | rising |
| 25 | Singapore | 24,451 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 26 | Colombia | 23,780 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 27 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 23,732 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 27 | Caribbean | 8,966 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 28 | Mexico | 23,564 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.9% | rising |
| 29 | Niger | 23,169 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 30 | China, mainland | 23,138 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 31 | China | 23,136 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 32 | French Guiana | 23,000 kg/ha | 2005 | up 9.4% | falling |
| 33 | Poland | 22,964 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 34 | Italy | 22,864 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 35 | Canada | 22,490 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 36 | Lebanon | 22,158 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 37 | Saint Lucia | 21,705 kg/ha | 2024 | up 81.7% | rising |
| 38 | Tunisia | 20,806 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.7% | flat |
| 39 | Greece | 20,787 kg/ha | 2024 | up 35.1% | rising |
| 40 | Norway | 20,750 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.8% | volatile |
| 41 | Mauritius | 20,657 kg/ha | 2024 | up 99.5% | falling |
| 42 | Egypt | 20,055 kg/ha | 2024 | down 19.5% | rising |
| 43 | Morocco | 20,002 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 44 | Malta | 19,445 kg/ha | 2017 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 45 | Guadeloupe | 19,231 kg/ha | 2006 | up 1.5% | volatile |
| 46 | Panama | 19,188 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 47 | Australia and New Zealand | 18,750 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 48 | North Macedonia | 18,187 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 49 | Switzerland | 18,126 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.8% | falling |
| 50 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 17,810 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.1% | rising |
| 51 | Australia | 17,627 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.0% | rising |
| 52 | Croatia | 17,600 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.7% | rising |
| 53 | Qatar | 17,485 kg/ha | 2024 | up 35.7% | rising |
| 54 | Barbados | 17,436 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 55 | Malaysia | 17,199 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.1% | rising |
| 56 | Bulgaria | 16,727 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.6% | flat |
| 57 | Palestine | 16,682 kg/ha | 2022 | down 2.2% | falling |
| 58 | Ukraine | 16,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 24.2% | rising |
| 59 | South Africa | 15,332 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | flat |
| 60 | Uzbekistan | 15,035 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 61 | Réunion | 14,946 kg/ha | 2006 | up 33.6% | rising |
| 62 | Honduras | 14,340 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | flat |
| 63 | Slovenia | 14,310 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 64 | Cyprus | 14,048 kg/ha | 2024 | down 41.0% | volatile |
| 65 | Chile | 13,874 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 66 | Albania | 13,848 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.2% | flat |
| 67 | Jamaica | 13,556 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 68 | French Polynesia | 13,534 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 69 | Sweden | 13,309 kg/ha | 2024 | down 34.9% | falling |
| 70 | Martinique | 13,171 kg/ha | 2006 | down 61.2% | volatile |
| 71 | Denmark | 12,843 kg/ha | 2024 | down 17.7% | rising |
| 72 | Bahamas | 12,481 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 73 | United Arab Emirates | 12,322 kg/ha | 2024 | down 34.5% | volatile |
| 74 | Peru | 12,186 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.0% | falling |
| 75 | Romania | 11,824 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.3% | rising |
| 76 | Lithuania | 11,643 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.6% | falling |
| 77 | Czechoslovakia | 11,511 kg/ha | 1992 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 78 | Guinea | 10,999 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 79 | Mali | 10,933 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.4% | rising |
| 80 | Ethiopia | 10,286 kg/ha | 2024 | down 31.4% | rising |
| 81 | Dominica | 10,004 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 82 | Slovakia | 9,000 kg/ha | 2024 | down 19.3% | rising |
| 83 | Trinidad and Tobago | 8,964 kg/ha | 2024 | down 13.6% | rising |
| 84 | Kyrgyzstan | 8,717 kg/ha | 2024 | up 24.5% | rising |
| 85 | Thailand | 8,577 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | falling |
| 86 | Iraq | 7,973 kg/ha | 2024 | down 60.1% | flat |
| 87 | Philippines | 7,935 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 88 | Grenada | 7,682 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 89 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 7,401 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 90 | Ecuador | 7,346 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.9% | falling |
| 91 | Nauru | 7,236 kg/ha | 2024 | up 67.0% | rising |
| 92 | Zimbabwe | 6,326 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.5% | falling |
| 93 | Latvia | 6,300 kg/ha | 2017 | down 73.8% | volatile |
| 94 | India | 6,299 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.8% | rising |
| 95 | Nepal | 6,076 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.3% | flat |
| 96 | Dominican Republic | 5,899 kg/ha | 2024 | up 31.3% | volatile |
| 97 | Bangladesh | 5,422 kg/ha | 2018 | up 17.9% | falling |
| 98 | Antigua and Barbuda | 4,698 kg/ha | 2024 | — | falling |
| 99 | Kenya | 4,535 kg/ha | 2024 | down 74.0% | volatile |
| 100 | Yemen | 4,484 kg/ha | 1993 | up 477.4% | volatile |
| 101 | Israel | 4,327 kg/ha | 2024 | down 62.9% | falling |
| 102 | Costa Rica | 2,788 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 103 | Haiti | 2,770 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.0% | falling |
| 104 | Brunei Darussalam | 1,887 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.1% | falling |
| 105 | Pakistan | 1,091 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.4% | falling |
| 106 | Madagascar | 582.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 38.1% | volatile |
| 107 | Djibouti | 345.5 kg/ha | 2024 | down 79.7% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- United States of America 36,063 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 41,457 kg/ha
- Northern America 35,690 kg/ha
- Western Europe 30,973 kg/ha
- Americas 30,399 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 27,134 kg/ha
- Europe 26,558 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 24,771 kg/ha
- Asia 19,754 kg/ha
- Central America 23,916 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 18,691 kg/ha
- Eastern Europe 23,556 kg/ha
- Western Asia 23,536 kg/ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 10,080 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 23,290 kg/ha
- World 21,909 kg/ha
- Northern Africa 20,365 kg/ha
- Northern Europe 19,934 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 19,259 kg/ha
- Western Africa 19,104 kg/ha
- Africa 19,081 kg/ha
- Oceania 18,739 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 18,666 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 18,089 kg/ha
- Southern Africa 15,332 kg/ha
- South America 15,024 kg/ha
- South-Eastern Asia 14,095 kg/ha
- Central Asia 12,665 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 11,004 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 7,988 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.