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...
What the numbers show
Pulses, Total — Yield is currently reported for 185 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 1,145 kg/ha, and the mean is 1,735 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4,255.
Over the past decade 105 countries rose and 79 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bahrain | 40,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5,288.7% | volatile |
| 1 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 1,703 kg/ha | 2024 | up 38.0% | rising |
| 2 | Malaysia | 14,761 kg/ha | 2024 | — | rising |
| 2 | Türkiye | 1,592 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 3 | Jordan | 5,874 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1,903.2% | volatile |
| 3 | Timor-Leste | 1,413 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.3% | rising |
| 4 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 4,652 kg/ha | 1999 | up 18.7% | rising |
| 4 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1,279 kg/ha | 2024 | up 35.1% | rising |
| 5 | Ireland | 4,621 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.5% | rising |
| 5 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 1,207 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.4% | rising |
| 6 | Belgium | 4,162 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.4% | rising |
| 6 | Republic of Moldova | 1,046 kg/ha | 2024 | down 31.3% | rising |
| 7 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3,992 kg/ha | 2024 | up 125.8% | rising |
| 7 | Viet Nam | 1,021 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 8 | Uzbekistan | 3,609 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 8 | Syrian Arab Republic | 1,002 kg/ha | 2024 | up 27.0% | rising |
| 9 | Fiji | 3,600 kg/ha | 2024 | up 629.3% | volatile |
| 10 | Denmark | 3,569 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.7% | rising |
| 10 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 879.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.9% | rising |
| 11 | Egypt | 3,551 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.4% | rising |
| 11 | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 879.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 12 | Tajikistan | 3,442 kg/ha | 2024 | down 16.9% | volatile |
| 12 | Melanesia | 867.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 26.9% | rising |
| 13 | Montenegro | 3,440 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.2% | rising |
| 14 | New Zealand | 3,424 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.5% | rising |
| 14 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 683.8 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.7% | falling |
| 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 |
| 17 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 504 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 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 |
| 22 | Côte d'Ivoire | 827.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | 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 |
| 28 | Caribbean | 572.3 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.3% | rising |
| 29 | Latvia | 2,455 kg/ha | 2024 | down 13.8% | rising |
| 29 | Cabo Verde | 157.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 22.3% | falling |
| 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 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,657 kg/ha | 2024 | down 57.9% | rising |
| 57 | Czechia | 1,654 kg/ha | 2024 | down 35.7% | flat |
| 58 | Australia and New Zealand | 1,647 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 59 | Australia | 1,643 kg/ha | 2024 | up 22.6% | rising |
| 60 | Republic of Korea | 1,632 kg/ha | 2024 | up 22.6% | rising |
| 61 | Kyrgyzstan | 1,625 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.9% | rising |
| 62 | Afghanistan | 1,611 kg/ha | 2024 | up 114.1% | rising |
| 63 | Iraq | 1,564 kg/ha | 2024 | down 51.5% | volatile |
| 64 | Peru | 1,561 kg/ha | 2024 | up 28.0% | rising |
| 65 | Cyprus | 1,556 kg/ha | 2024 | up 33.8% | rising |
| 66 | Azerbaijan | 1,533 kg/ha | 2024 | down 23.2% | falling |
| 67 | Gabon | 1,513 kg/ha | 2024 | up 16.1% | volatile |
| 68 | Slovakia | 1,469 kg/ha | 2024 | down 35.8% | flat |
| 69 | Sudan | 1,466 kg/ha | 2024 | up 99.8% | rising |
| 70 | Bulgaria | 1,396 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 71 | Grenada | 1,389 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.3% | flat |
| 72 | Colombia | 1,369 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 73 | Albania | 1,352 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.2% | rising |
| 74 | Guyana | 1,350 kg/ha | 2024 | down 19.2% | rising |
| 75 | Bahamas | 1,337 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.0% | falling |
| 76 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 1,329 kg/ha | 2024 | down 65.4% | rising |
| 77 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1,316 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.1% | rising |
| 78 | Kazakhstan | 1,301 kg/ha | 2024 | up 66.0% | rising |
| 79 | Greece | 1,276 kg/ha | 2024 | down 33.8% | rising |
| 80 | Cambodia | 1,261 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.1% | rising |
| 81 | Georgia | 1,229 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 82 | Yugoslav SFR | 1,208 kg/ha | 1991 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 83 | Algeria | 1,188 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.8% | rising |
| 84 | Norway | 1,187 kg/ha | 2024 | down 13.1% | falling |
| 85 | Cuba | 1,186 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.6% | volatile |
| 86 | Bangladesh | 1,182 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 87 | Spain | 1,150 kg/ha | 2024 | up 17.0% | rising |
| 88 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1,145 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 89 | Tunisia | 1,138 kg/ha | 2024 | up 27.8% | rising |
| 90 | Brazil | 1,138 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.4% | rising |
| 91 | Dominican Republic | 1,136 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.0% | rising |
| 92 | Jamaica | 1,136 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 93 | Madagascar | 1,133 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 94 | Indonesia | 1,124 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.9% | flat |
| 94 | South Africa | 1,124 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.9% | rising |
| 96 | Solomon Islands | 1,096 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.9% | rising |
| 97 | Mongolia | 1,087 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 98 | Namibia | 1,080 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.0% | rising |
| 99 | Argentina | 1,070 kg/ha | 2024 | down 24.4% | rising |
| 100 | Sri Lanka | 1,058 kg/ha | 2024 | down 15.4% | rising |
| 101 | Romania | 1,056 kg/ha | 2024 | down 26.4% | volatile |
| 102 | USSR | 1,038 kg/ha | 1991 | up 44.0% | rising |
| 103 | Nepal | 1,033 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.7% | rising |
| 104 | Central African Republic | 1,016 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.8% | rising |
| 105 | Uruguay | 1,005 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 106 | El Salvador | 988.3 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.6% | rising |
| 107 | Israel | 985.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 66.0% | volatile |
| 108 | Malawi | 984.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 14.1% | rising |
| 109 | Bhutan | 974.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 19.5% | rising |
| 110 | Thailand | 957.8 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 111 | Myanmar | 948.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.6% | rising |
| 112 | Suriname | 939.4 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 113 | Guinea | 926.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 114 | South Sudan | 916.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.2% | falling |
| 115 | India | 906.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.2% | rising |
| 116 | Sudan (former) | 901.9 kg/ha | 2011 | down 34.9% | flat |
| 117 | Mexico | 893.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 118 | Philippines | 870.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 119 | Uganda | 868.5 kg/ha | 2024 | down 36.8% | rising |
| 120 | Belize | 866.8 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 121 | Ghana | 860.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 20.1% | volatile |
| 122 | Maldives | 849.1 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 123 | Dominica | 841.8 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 124 | Nicaragua | 836 kg/ha | 2023 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 125 | Benin | 833.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.4% | rising |
| 126 | Ethiopia PDR | 824.3 kg/ha | 1992 | down 15.7% | rising |
| 127 | Nigeria | 822.6 kg/ha | 2024 | up 43.6% | rising |
| 128 | Honduras | 821.1 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.9% | rising |
| 129 | Guatemala | 815.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.3% | rising |
| 130 | Réunion | 812.2 kg/ha | 2006 | up 9.7% | volatile |
| 131 | Gambia | 798.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 273.1% | rising |
| 132 | Comoros | 783.6 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.6% | rising |
| 133 | Congo | 766.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 134 | Cameroon | 766 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.4% | rising |
| 135 | Costa Rica | 753.6 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.9% | rising |
| 136 | Morocco | 747.6 kg/ha | 2024 | down 10.6% | flat |
| 137 | Ecuador | 742.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 46.9% | falling |
| 138 | Liberia | 731.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.9% | rising |
| 139 | Paraguay | 724.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.2% | rising |
| 140 | Rwanda | 721.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 16.6% | flat |
| 141 | Senegal | 708.9 kg/ha | 2024 | up 114.1% | rising |
| 142 | Eritrea | 704.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 143 | Burundi | 691.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | falling |
| 144 | Chad | 675.7 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.3% | rising |
| 145 | Kenya | 661 kg/ha | 2024 | up 6.4% | rising |
| 146 | Sierra Leone | 622.3 kg/ha | 2024 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 147 | Mali | 611.9 kg/ha | 2024 | up 9.9% | rising |
| 148 | Togo | 587 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.0% | rising |
| 149 | Eswatini | 580.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.7% | flat |
| 150 | Mauritania | 546.7 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 151 | Papua New Guinea | 537.7 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 152 | Angola | 520.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | falling |
| 153 | Zambia | 516.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.3% | falling |
| 154 | Martinique | 514.2 kg/ha | 2006 | up 52.2% | rising |
| 155 | Mozambique | 513.7 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.5% | falling |
| 156 | Burkina Faso | 510.7 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 157 | Niger | 497.8 kg/ha | 2024 | up 64.2% | volatile |
| 158 | Panama | 458.6 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.0% | rising |
| 159 | Pakistan | 416.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 15.8% | flat |
| 160 | Portugal | 409.3 kg/ha | 2024 | down 69.3% | volatile |
| 161 | Botswana | 405.9 kg/ha | 2024 | up 49.8% | volatile |
| 162 | Guinea-Bissau | 376.1 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 163 | Guadeloupe | 375 kg/ha | 2006 | down 90.2% | volatile |
| 164 | Haiti | 350.7 kg/ha | 2024 | down 21.9% | rising |
| 165 | Djibouti | 315.8 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 166 | Somalia | 299.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | falling |
| 167 | Zimbabwe | 252.1 kg/ha | 2024 | down 27.1% | falling |
| 168 | Lesotho | 176.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 24.3% | falling |
| 169 | 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.
- Western Europe 2,905 kg/ha
- Northern Europe 2,840 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 2,075 kg/ha
- Europe 2,072 kg/ha
- Eastern Europe 1,928 kg/ha
- Northern America 1,837 kg/ha
- United States of America 1,818 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 1,750 kg/ha
- Oceania 1,644 kg/ha
- Asia 998.1 kg/ha
- Western Asia 1,529 kg/ha
- Central Asia 1,411 kg/ha
- Northern Africa 1,406 kg/ha
- Americas 1,356 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 810.4 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 1,331 kg/ha
- South America 1,138 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 622.1 kg/ha
- World 1,064 kg/ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 574.6 kg/ha
- South-Eastern Asia 979.5 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 961.7 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 891.7 kg/ha
- Central America 877.1 kg/ha
- Southern Africa 837 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 824.1 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 802.5 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 785.1 kg/ha
- Africa 783.1 kg/ha
- Western Africa 646.8 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.