Pulses, Total — 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
182
Highest
40,000 kg/ha
Bahrain
Lowest
9.4 kg/ha
New Caledonia
Median
1,166 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
12,213

What the numbers show

Pulses, Total — Yield is currently reported for 182 countries. The highest value is 40,000 kg/ha in Bahrain; the lowest is 9.4 kg/ha in New Caledonia.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,166 kg/ha, and the mean is 1,747 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4,255.

Over the past decade 104 countries rose and 77 fell. The largest increase was in Bahrain (up 5,288.7%), and the largest decrease in Guadeloupe (down 90.2%).

Pulses, Total — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Bahrain 40,000 kg/ha 2024 up 5,288.7% volatile
2 Malaysia 14,761 kg/ha 2024 rising
3 Jordan 5,874 kg/ha 2024 up 1,903.2% volatile
4 Belgium-Luxembourg 4,652 kg/ha 1999 up 18.7% rising
5 Ireland 4,621 kg/ha 2024 down 21.5% rising
6 Belgium 4,162 kg/ha 2024 down 5.4% rising
7 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,992 kg/ha 2024 up 125.8% rising
8 Uzbekistan 3,609 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
9 Fiji 3,600 kg/ha 2024 up 629.3% volatile
10 Denmark 3,569 kg/ha 2024 down 9.7% rising
11 Egypt 3,551 kg/ha 2024 up 15.4% rising
12 Tajikistan 3,442 kg/ha 2024 down 16.9% volatile
13 Montenegro 3,440 kg/ha 2024 up 7.2% rising
14 New Zealand 3,424 kg/ha 2024 down 5.5% rising
15 Saudi Arabia 3,350 kg/ha 2024 up 9.3% rising
16 Germany 3,331 kg/ha 2024 down 3.3% rising
17 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 3,231 kg/ha 2024 down 7.3% rising
18 Luxembourg 3,026 kg/ha 2024 up 9.0% falling
19 Sweden 2,966 kg/ha 2024 down 8.2% rising
20 Serbia and Montenegro 2,945 kg/ha 2005 up 4.8% flat
21 Malta 2,824 kg/ha 2017 up 8.1% rising
22 Finland 2,697 kg/ha 2024 up 6.4% rising
23 Belarus 2,631 kg/ha 2024 down 10.0% rising
24 France 2,624 kg/ha 2024 down 25.2% rising
25 Barbados 2,567 kg/ha 2024 up 6.3% rising
26 Serbia 2,545 kg/ha 2024 down 4.6% flat
27 Puerto Rico 2,488 kg/ha 2024 up 57.5% volatile
28 Estonia 2,462 kg/ha 2024 up 19.2% rising
29 Latvia 2,455 kg/ha 2024 down 13.8% rising
30 Czechoslovakia 2,315 kg/ha 1992 up 30.4% rising
31 Lithuania 2,304 kg/ha 2024 down 6.5% rising
32 Hungary 2,267 kg/ha 2024 down 1.5% rising
33 Poland 2,187 kg/ha 2024 down 5.8% rising
34 Austria 2,118 kg/ha 2024 down 17.8% falling
35 Saint Lucia 2,100 kg/ha 2024 down 0.1% flat
36 Yemen 2,092 kg/ha 2024 down 2.2% rising
37 Italy 2,082 kg/ha 2024 up 17.0% rising
38 Croatia 2,080 kg/ha 2024 up 47.2% falling
39 Switzerland 2,065 kg/ha 2024 down 43.2% falling
40 Turkmenistan 2,038 kg/ha 2024 up 13.1% rising
41 Chile 2,029 kg/ha 2024 up 59.9% rising
42 Ukraine 2,018 kg/ha 2024 down 5.6% rising
43 Palestine 2,016 kg/ha 2022 up 14.8% rising
44 Ethiopia 1,997 kg/ha 2024 up 30.6% rising
45 China, Taiwan Province of 1,946 kg/ha 2024 down 2.7% rising
46 Lebanon 1,933 kg/ha 2024 up 11.7% rising
47 Russian Federation 1,889 kg/ha 2024 up 29.0% rising
48 China 1,873 kg/ha 2024 up 8.6% rising
49 China, mainland 1,873 kg/ha 2024 up 8.7% rising
50 Armenia 1,865 kg/ha 2024 down 33.8% rising
51 Canada 1,845 kg/ha 2024 down 10.4% rising
52 Slovenia 1,814 kg/ha 2024 down 17.7% falling
53 North Macedonia 1,805 kg/ha 2024 down 2.1% falling
54 Japan 1,772 kg/ha 2024 down 24.7% rising
55 Libya 1,709 kg/ha 2024 up 2.6% rising
56 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1,703 kg/ha 2024 up 38.0% rising
57 Trinidad and Tobago 1,657 kg/ha 2024 down 57.9% rising
58 Czechia 1,654 kg/ha 2024 down 35.7% flat
59 Australia and New Zealand 1,647 kg/ha 2024 up 21.8% rising
60 Australia 1,643 kg/ha 2024 up 22.6% rising
61 Republic of Korea 1,632 kg/ha 2024 up 22.6% rising
62 Kyrgyzstan 1,625 kg/ha 2024 down 2.9% rising
63 Afghanistan 1,611 kg/ha 2024 up 114.1% rising
64 Türkiye 1,592 kg/ha 2024 up 14.3% rising
65 Iraq 1,564 kg/ha 2024 down 51.5% volatile
66 Peru 1,561 kg/ha 2024 up 28.0% rising
67 Cyprus 1,556 kg/ha 2024 up 33.8% rising
68 Azerbaijan 1,533 kg/ha 2024 down 23.2% falling
69 Gabon 1,513 kg/ha 2024 up 16.1% volatile
70 Slovakia 1,469 kg/ha 2024 down 35.8% flat
71 Sudan 1,466 kg/ha 2024 up 99.8% rising
72 Timor-Leste 1,413 kg/ha 2024 up 12.3% rising
73 Bulgaria 1,396 kg/ha 2024 up 2.6% rising
74 Grenada 1,389 kg/ha 2024 up 1.3% flat
75 Colombia 1,369 kg/ha 2024 up 3.6% rising
76 Albania 1,352 kg/ha 2024 down 8.2% rising
77 Guyana 1,350 kg/ha 2024 down 19.2% rising
78 Bahamas 1,337 kg/ha 2024 down 0.0% falling
79 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,329 kg/ha 2024 down 65.4% rising
80 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1,316 kg/ha 2024 down 14.1% rising
81 Kazakhstan 1,301 kg/ha 2024 up 66.0% rising
82 United Republic of Tanzania 1,279 kg/ha 2024 up 35.1% rising
83 Greece 1,276 kg/ha 2024 down 33.8% rising
84 Cambodia 1,261 kg/ha 2024 up 10.1% rising
85 Georgia 1,229 kg/ha 2024 up 15.0% rising
86 Yugoslav SFR 1,208 kg/ha 1991 up 11.7% rising
87 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,207 kg/ha 2024 up 21.4% rising
88 Algeria 1,188 kg/ha 2024 up 14.8% rising
89 Norway 1,187 kg/ha 2024 down 13.1% falling
90 Cuba 1,186 kg/ha 2024 up 13.6% volatile
91 Bangladesh 1,182 kg/ha 2024 up 12.0% rising
92 Spain 1,150 kg/ha 2024 up 17.0% rising
93 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1,145 kg/ha 2024 up 2.6% rising
94 Tunisia 1,138 kg/ha 2024 up 27.8% rising
95 Brazil 1,138 kg/ha 2024 up 10.4% rising
96 Dominican Republic 1,136 kg/ha 2024 up 11.0% rising
97 Jamaica 1,136 kg/ha 2024 up 3.2% rising
98 Madagascar 1,133 kg/ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
99 Indonesia 1,124 kg/ha 2024 down 3.9% flat
100 Solomon Islands 1,096 kg/ha 2024 down 3.9% rising
101 Mongolia 1,087 kg/ha 2024 up 5.3% rising
102 Namibia 1,080 kg/ha 2024 down 3.0% rising
103 Argentina 1,070 kg/ha 2024 down 24.4% rising
104 Sri Lanka 1,058 kg/ha 2024 down 15.4% rising
105 Romania 1,056 kg/ha 2024 down 26.4% volatile
106 Republic of Moldova 1,046 kg/ha 2024 down 31.3% rising
107 USSR 1,038 kg/ha 1991 up 44.0% rising
108 Nepal 1,033 kg/ha 2024 down 2.7% rising
109 Viet Nam 1,021 kg/ha 2024 up 9.5% rising
110 Uruguay 1,005 kg/ha 2024 up 1.9% rising
111 Syrian Arab Republic 1,002 kg/ha 2024 up 27.0% rising
112 El Salvador 988.3 kg/ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
113 Israel 985.2 kg/ha 2024 down 66.0% volatile
114 Malawi 984.2 kg/ha 2024 up 14.1% rising
115 Bhutan 974.2 kg/ha 2024 down 19.5% rising
116 Thailand 957.8 kg/ha 2024 up 1.2% rising
117 Myanmar 948.4 kg/ha 2024 down 4.6% rising
118 Suriname 939.4 kg/ha 2024 up 9.7% rising
119 Guinea 926.2 kg/ha 2024 up 1.4% rising
120 South Sudan 916.5 kg/ha 2024 up 0.2% falling
121 India 906.6 kg/ha 2024 up 13.2% rising
122 Sudan (former) 901.9 kg/ha 2011 down 34.9% flat
123 Mexico 893.5 kg/ha 2024 up 2.0% rising
124 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 879.6 kg/ha 2024 up 14.9% rising
125 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 879.5 kg/ha 2024 up 1.0% rising
126 Philippines 870.3 kg/ha 2024 up 5.8% rising
127 Uganda 868.5 kg/ha 2024 down 36.8% rising
128 Melanesia 867.6 kg/ha 2024 up 26.9% rising
129 Belize 866.8 kg/ha 2024 up 4.6% rising
130 Ghana 860.2 kg/ha 2024 up 20.1% volatile
131 Maldives 849.1 kg/ha 2024 down 2.4% rising
132 Dominica 841.8 kg/ha 2024 up 3.6% rising
133 Nicaragua 836 kg/ha 2023 up 1.4% rising
134 Benin 833.2 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% rising
135 Côte d'Ivoire 827.6 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
136 Ethiopia PDR 824.3 kg/ha 1992 down 15.7% rising
137 Nigeria 822.6 kg/ha 2024 up 43.6% rising
138 Honduras 821.1 kg/ha 2024 up 9.9% rising
139 Guatemala 815.4 kg/ha 2024 down 21.3% rising
140 Gambia 798.5 kg/ha 2024 up 273.1% rising
141 Comoros 783.6 kg/ha 2024 down 0.6% rising
142 Congo 766.5 kg/ha 2024 up 0.3% rising
143 Cameroon 766 kg/ha 2024 down 20.4% rising
144 Costa Rica 753.6 kg/ha 2024 down 1.9% rising
145 Morocco 747.6 kg/ha 2024 down 10.6% flat
146 Ecuador 742.2 kg/ha 2024 up 46.9% falling
147 Liberia 731.5 kg/ha 2024 up 7.9% rising
148 Paraguay 724.9 kg/ha 2024 down 9.2% rising
149 Rwanda 721.9 kg/ha 2024 down 16.6% flat
150 Senegal 708.9 kg/ha 2024 up 114.1% rising
151 Eritrea 704.5 kg/ha 2024 up 1.5% rising
152 Burundi 691.3 kg/ha 2024 up 0.6% falling
153 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 683.8 kg/ha 2024 down 8.7% falling
154 Chad 675.7 kg/ha 2024 up 9.3% rising
155 Kenya 661 kg/ha 2024 up 6.4% rising
156 Sierra Leone 622.3 kg/ha 2024 down 5.6% rising
157 Mali 611.9 kg/ha 2024 up 9.9% rising
158 Togo 587 kg/ha 2024 up 21.0% rising
159 Eswatini 580.3 kg/ha 2024 up 8.7% flat
160 Caribbean 572.3 kg/ha 2024 down 12.3% rising
161 Mauritania 546.7 kg/ha 2024 up 4.3% rising
162 Papua New Guinea 537.7 kg/ha 2024 up 3.0% rising
163 Angola 520.3 kg/ha 2024 up 2.0% falling
164 Zambia 516.4 kg/ha 2024 down 9.3% falling
165 Martinique 514.2 kg/ha 2006 up 52.2% rising
166 Mozambique 513.7 kg/ha 2024 up 12.5% falling
167 Burkina Faso 510.7 kg/ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
168 Democratic Republic of the Congo 504 kg/ha 2024 down 1.8% falling
169 Niger 497.8 kg/ha 2024 up 64.2% volatile
170 Panama 458.6 kg/ha 2024 down 21.0% rising
171 Pakistan 416.2 kg/ha 2024 down 15.8% flat
172 Portugal 409.3 kg/ha 2024 down 69.3% volatile
173 Botswana 405.9 kg/ha 2024 up 49.8% volatile
174 Guinea-Bissau 376.1 kg/ha 2024 down 1.1% falling
175 Guadeloupe 375 kg/ha 2006 down 90.2% volatile
176 Haiti 350.7 kg/ha 2024 down 21.9% rising
177 Djibouti 315.8 kg/ha 2024 up 3.0% rising
178 Somalia 299.9 kg/ha 2024 down 2.2% falling
179 Zimbabwe 252.1 kg/ha 2024 down 27.1% falling
180 Lesotho 176.2 kg/ha 2024 up 24.3% falling
181 Cabo Verde 157.9 kg/ha 2024 down 22.3% falling
182 New Caledonia 9.4 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
Pulses, Total — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
215 places, 12,213 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.