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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Northern America 8,471 kg/ha
- United States of America 8,471 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 8,322 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 3,618 kg/ha
- Central America 3,534 kg/ha
- Americas 3,438 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 3,284 kg/ha
- Asia 2,968 kg/ha
- Western Asia 2,961 kg/ha
- South America 2,936 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 2,912 kg/ha
- Europe 2,908 kg/ha
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.