Lettuce and chicory — Yield in India
India: Lettuce and chicory — Yield was 6,299 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Lettuce and chicory — Yield in India, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
India recorded 6,299 kg/ha for lettuce and chicory — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, lettuce and chicory — yield in India peaked at 6,610 kg/ha in 1999 and was at its lowest, 4,546 kg/ha, in 1961.
India ranks 94th of 107 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Lettuce and chicory — Yield in India, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4,546 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 4,569 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1963 | 4,593 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1964 | 4,590 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1965 | 4,758 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1966 | 4,766 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1967 | 4,800 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1968 | 4,791 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1969 | 5,000 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1970 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 5,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 5,203 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1973 | 5,200 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1974 | 5,192 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1975 | 5,188 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1976 | 5,476 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1977 | 5,500 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1978 | 5,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 5,684 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1980 | 5,670 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1981 | 5,700 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1982 | 6,000 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1983 | 6,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 6,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 6,190 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1986 | 6,286 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1987 | 6,396 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1988 | 6,467 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1989 | 6,486 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1990 | 6,460 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1991 | 6,538 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1992 | 6,536 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1993 | 6,504 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1994 | 6,565 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1995 | 6,560 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1996 | 6,595 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1997 | 6,558 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1998 | 6,581 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1999 | 6,610 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2000 | 6,542 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2001 | 6,511 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2002 | 6,491 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2003 | 6,473 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2004 | 6,455 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2005 | 6,414 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2006 | 6,433 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 6,422 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2008 | 6,411 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2009 | 6,401 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2010 | 6,392 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 6,385 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 6,324 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2013 | 6,353 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 6,351 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2015 | 6,345 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 6,350 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 6,335 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2018 | 6,319 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 6,308 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2020 | 6,296 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2021 | 6,298 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 6,300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 6,298 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2024 | 6,299 kg/ha | +0.0% |
India compared with similar countries
- India's 6,299 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 10,999 kg/ha, 57% of the median. (19 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,713 kg/ha | 4,546 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,294 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 5,684 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,120 kg/ha | 5,670 kg/ha | 6,486 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,551 kg/ha | 6,460 kg/ha | 6,610 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,455 kg/ha | 6,401 kg/ha | 6,542 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,346 kg/ha | 6,308 kg/ha | 6,392 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,298 kg/ha | 6,296 kg/ha | 6,300 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near India
More agriculture & rural data for India
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.83 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1623 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 438.73 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4067 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6431 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is lettuce and chicory — yield in India?
- Lettuce and chicory — yield in India was 6,299 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 6,610 kg/ha in 1999.
- What is the lowest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,546 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does India rank for lettuce and chicory — yield?
- India ranks 94th out of 107 countries with data for 2024.
- Is lettuce and chicory — yield rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this India data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Lettuce and chicory — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.