Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Lettuce and chicory — Yield was 18,691 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, lettuce and chicory — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) stood at 18,691 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 6.0% on the previous year and up 65.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, lettuce and chicory — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 19,893 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 5,012 kg/ha, in 1973.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,261 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 6,076 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1963 | 6,067 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1964 | 6,312 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1965 | 5,756 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1966 | 5,788 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1967 | 5,733 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1968 | 5,677 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1969 | 5,666 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1970 | 5,784 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1971 | 5,756 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1972 | 5,265 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1973 | 5,012 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1974 | 5,161 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1975 | 5,221 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1976 | 5,387 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1977 | 5,437 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1978 | 5,576 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1979 | 5,908 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1980 | 5,958 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1981 | 5,924 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1982 | 5,992 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1983 | 6,035 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1984 | 6,145 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1985 | 6,078 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1986 | 6,115 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1987 | 5,811 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1988 | 6,096 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1989 | 6,103 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1990 | 6,304 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1991 | 6,374 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1992 | 6,515 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1993 | 6,748 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1994 | 6,832 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1995 | 6,772 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1996 | 6,756 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1997 | 6,655 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1998 | 6,726 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1999 | 6,302 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2000 | 6,498 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2001 | 6,542 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 6,945 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2003 | 7,132 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2004 | 7,392 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2005 | 7,480 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2006 | 7,752 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2007 | 8,353 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2008 | 9,370 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2009 | 8,898 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2010 | 8,831 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 9,159 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2012 | 9,094 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2013 | 9,799 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2014 | 11,292 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 2015 | 12,203 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2016 | 12,326 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2017 | 12,860 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2018 | 12,505 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2019 | 15,692 kg/ha | +25.5% |
| 2020 | 17,504 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 2021 | 17,372 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2022 | 19,154 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 2023 | 19,893 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2024 | 18,691 kg/ha | -6.0% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | +25.5% | 12,505 kg/ha | 15,692 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,926 kg/ha | 5,666 kg/ha | 6,312 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,451 kg/ha | 5,012 kg/ha | 5,908 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,026 kg/ha | 5,811 kg/ha | 6,145 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,598 kg/ha | 6,302 kg/ha | 6,832 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,636 kg/ha | 6,498 kg/ha | 9,370 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 11,376 kg/ha | 8,831 kg/ha | 15,692 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 18,523 kg/ha | 17,372 kg/ha | 19,893 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
- 5 Belgium 43,710 kg/ha compare
- 5 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 20,891 kg/ha compare
- 6 Hungary 41,458 kg/ha compare
- 6 Syrian Arab Republic 19,924 kg/ha compare
- 7 Congo 39,588 kg/ha compare
- 8 Germany 31,494 kg/ha compare
- 9 Sao Tome and Principe 29,892 kg/ha compare
- 9 Polynesia 13,534 kg/ha compare
- 10 Austria 29,788 kg/ha compare
- 11 Ireland 27,909 kg/ha compare
- 11 Micronesia 7,236 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is lettuce and chicory — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Lettuce and chicory — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 18,691 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 19,893 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,012 kg/ha in 1973.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for lettuce and chicory — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 8th out of 12 groups with data for 2024.
- Is lettuce and chicory — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 65.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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.