Olives — 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...

Countries reporting
44
Highest
14,634 kg/ha
Saudi Arabia
Lowest
501.7 kg/ha
Azerbaijan
Median
2,239 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
3,506

What the numbers show

Olives — Yield is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 14,634 kg/ha in Saudi Arabia; the lowest is 501.7 kg/ha in Azerbaijan.

The median across all reporting countries is 2,239 kg/ha, and the mean is 3,289 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 29.

Over the past decade 32 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in Kuwait (up 725.4%), and the largest decrease in Peru (down 87.0%).

Olives — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Saudi Arabia 14,634 kg/ha 2024 up 50.9% rising
2 Kuwait 13,467 kg/ha 2024 up 725.4% volatile
3 Egypt 10,784 kg/ha 2024 up 16.0% volatile
4 China, Taiwan Province of 8,322 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% falling
4 China 8,322 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% falling
6 Chile 6,614 kg/ha 2024 up 26.2% rising
7 Mexico 5,066 kg/ha 2024 up 83.7% rising
8 Iraq 4,151 kg/ha 2024 down 24.1% rising
9 Türkiye 4,106 kg/ha 2024 up 91.8% rising
10 Jordan 3,816 kg/ha 2024 up 53.5% volatile
11 Afghanistan 3,618 kg/ha 2024 up 15.1% volatile
12 Portugal 3,521 kg/ha 2024 up 172.5% volatile
13 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 3,394 kg/ha 2024 up 247.2% flat
14 Spain 3,141 kg/ha 2024 up 73.3% rising
15 Greece 2,973 kg/ha 2023 up 35.2% rising
16 Albania 2,870 kg/ha 2024 up 17.1% volatile
17 Argentina 2,741 kg/ha 2024 down 1.8% falling
18 Montenegro 2,733 kg/ha 2024 down 11.8% rising
19 Croatia 2,706 kg/ha 2024 up 484.0% rising
20 Australia and New Zealand 2,488 kg/ha 2024 up 10.5% rising
20 Australia 2,488 kg/ha 2024 up 10.5% rising
22 Slovenia 2,293 kg/ha 2024 up 180.6% falling
23 Lebanon 2,185 kg/ha 2024 up 13.1% rising
24 Uruguay 2,185 kg/ha 2024 up 39.1% falling
25 North Macedonia 2,161 kg/ha 2024 down 1.3% falling
26 Palestine 2,155 kg/ha 2022 up 6.3% rising
27 Italy 2,123 kg/ha 2024 up 25.1% rising
28 El Salvador 1,984 kg/ha 2024 down 1.2% rising
29 Algeria 1,926 kg/ha 2024 up 53.0% rising
30 Cyprus 1,823 kg/ha 2024 up 15.0% rising
31 France 1,729 kg/ha 2024 up 128.9% volatile
32 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,625 kg/ha 2024 up 15.5% rising
33 Yugoslav SFR 1,505 kg/ha 1991 up 326.3% volatile
34 Peru 1,158 kg/ha 2024 down 87.0% rising
35 Syrian Arab Republic 1,153 kg/ha 2024 up 104.9% rising
36 Brazil 1,055 kg/ha 2024 down 50.4% volatile
37 Uzbekistan 876.6 kg/ha 2024 up 9.6% flat
38 Morocco 871.7 kg/ha 2024 down 47.5% rising
39 Israel 860.5 kg/ha 2024 down 67.8% rising
40 Libya 695.8 kg/ha 2024 down 2.4% falling
41 Serbia and Montenegro 679.6 kg/ha 2005 down 34.6% falling
42 Malta 631.6 kg/ha 2024 down 35.4% rising
43 Tunisia 566.1 kg/ha 2024 up 139.2% rising
44 Azerbaijan 501.7 kg/ha 2024 up 2.2% volatile

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Olives — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
66 places, 3,506 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.