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Millet seed quantity (FAO, metric tonnes) by country

Data include the amounts of the commodity in question set aside for sowing or planting (or generally for reproduction purposes, e.g. sugar cane planted, potatoes for seed, eggs for hatching and fish for bait, whether domestically produced or imported) during the reference period. Account is taken of double or...

Countries reporting
36
Highest
105,783 FAO, metric tonnes
Niger
Lowest
62 FAO, metric tonnes
Morocco
Median
1,988 FAO, metric tonnes
Years covered
51
1961–2011
Data points
2,061

What the numbers show

Millet seed quantity (FAO, metric tonnes) is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 105,783 FAO, metric tonnes in Niger; the lowest is 62 FAO, metric tonnes in Morocco.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,988 FAO, metric tonnes, and the mean is 9,834 FAO, metric tonnes.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,706.

Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in Mozambique (up 376.1%), and the largest decrease in Sudan (down 63.0%).

Millet seed quantity: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Niger 105,783 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 26.5% rising
2 Mali 68,510 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 46.6% rising
3 Nigeria 46,224 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 35.7% rising
4 Senegal 23,394 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 4.9% falling
5 Burkina Faso 17,151 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 17.7% rising
6 Chad 15,000 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 41.5% rising
7 Uganda 12,098 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 22.2% falling
8 Sudan 11,000 FAO, metric tonnes 2010 down 63.0% volatile
9 Ethiopia 8,200 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 45.7% rising
10 Guinea 8,000 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 120.7% volatile
11 Tanzania 5,250 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 2.5% rising
12 Namibia 4,703 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 18.9% rising
13 Gambia 4,500 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 46.2% volatile
14 Zimbabwe 3,551 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 151.7% falling
15 Angola 3,247 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 8.9% volatile
16 Cameroon 2,788 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 39.1% falling
17 Kenya 2,225 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 6.2% rising
18 Mozambique 2,190 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 376.1% volatile
19 Ghana 1,787 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 9.7% rising
20 Democratic Republic of Congo 1,224 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 13.1% rising
21 Eritrea 1,106 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 173.8% falling
22 Sierra Leone 980 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 181.6% volatile
23 Togo 807 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 3.7% volatile
24 Côte d’Ivoire 761 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 2.8% falling
25 Malawi 695 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 35.2% rising
26 Zambia 589 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 28.6% volatile
27 Guinea-Bissau 485 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 34.8% rising
28 Benin 426 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 41.7% rising
29 Central African Republic 354 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 11.5% falling
30 South Africa 280 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 25.5% falling
31 Libya 197 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 34.0% volatile
32 Botswana 150 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 233.3% volatile
33 Mauritania 116 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 19.4% volatile
34 Burundi 112 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 21.7% rising
35 Rwanda 81 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 up 1.2% rising
36 Morocco 62 FAO, metric tonnes 2011 down 44.1% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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About this data

Indicator
Millet seed quantity (FAO, metric tonnes)
Unit
FAO, metric tonnes
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
42 places, 2,061 data points, 1961–2011
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Data include the amounts of the commodity in question set aside for sowing or planting (or generally for reproduction purposes, e.g. sugar cane planted, potatoes for seed, eggs for hatching and fish for bait, whether domestically produced or imported) during the reference period. Account is taken of double or successive sowing or planting whenever it occurs. The data of seed include also, when it is the case, the quantities necessary for sowing or planting the area relating to crops harvested green for fodder or for food.(e.g. green peas, green beans, maize for forage) Data for seed element are stored in tonnes (t). Whenever official data were not available, seed figures have been estimated either as a percentage of supply (e.g. eggs for hatching) or by multiplying a seed rate with the area under the crop of the subsequent year.