Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Switzerland
Switzerland: Lettuce and chicory — Yield was 18,126 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Lettuce and chicory — Yield in Switzerland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Switzerland recorded 18,126 kg/ha for lettuce and chicory — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.9% on the previous year and down 11.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, lettuce and chicory — yield in Switzerland peaked at 34,666 kg/ha in 1981 and was at its lowest, 15,982 kg/ha, in 2006.
Switzerland ranks 54th of 115 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 22,626 kg/ha | 21,000 kg/ha | 23,500 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 20,712 kg/ha | 18,400 kg/ha | 23,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 27,252 kg/ha | 19,017 kg/ha | 34,666 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 22,247 kg/ha | 16,959 kg/ha | 25,939 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 18,182 kg/ha | 15,982 kg/ha | 20,044 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 19,963 kg/ha | 18,248 kg/ha | 21,504 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 17,944 kg/ha | 16,460 kg/ha | 19,400 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Switzerland
- 51 Panama 19,188 kg/ha compare
- 52 Australia and New Zealand 18,750 kg/ha compare
- 53 North Macedonia 18,187 kg/ha compare
- 55 China, Hong Kong SAR 17,810 kg/ha compare
- 56 Australia 17,627 kg/ha compare
- 57 Croatia 17,600 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Switzerland
- Agriculture share gdp 0.6446 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 0.6446 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2024)
- Rural population 14.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 1.30 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 0.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.73 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 756.04 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is lettuce and chicory — yield in Switzerland?
- Lettuce and chicory — yield in Switzerland was 18,126 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in Switzerland?
- The highest recorded value was 34,666 kg/ha in 1981.
- What is the lowest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in Switzerland?
- The lowest recorded value was 15,982 kg/ha in 2006.
- How does Switzerland rank for lettuce and chicory — yield?
- Switzerland ranks 54th out of 115 countries with data for 2024.
- Is lettuce and chicory — yield rising or falling in Switzerland?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Switzerland 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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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.