Sesame seed — Area harvested in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Sesame seed — Area harvested was 9,099 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Area harvested in Sierra Leone, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Sierra Leone recorded 9,099 ha for sesame seed — area harvested in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 162.0% on the previous year and up 47.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — area harvested in Sierra Leone peaked at 9,099 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 1,793 ha, in 1970.
Sierra Leone ranks 41st of 72 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sesame seed — Area harvested in Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,000 ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,793 ha | -10.3% |
| 1971 | 1,800 ha | +0.4% |
| 1972 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,800 ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 2,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 1975 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 2,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 2,100 ha | +5.0% |
| 1979 | 2,200 ha | +4.8% |
| 1980 | 2,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 2,400 ha | +9.1% |
| 1982 | 2,600 ha | +8.3% |
| 1983 | 2,800 ha | +7.7% |
| 1984 | 3,000 ha | +7.1% |
| 1985 | 3,100 ha | +3.3% |
| 1986 | 3,300 ha | +6.5% |
| 1987 | 3,700 ha | +12.1% |
| 1988 | 3,800 ha | +2.7% |
| 1989 | 4,200 ha | +10.5% |
| 1990 | 4,800 ha | +14.3% |
| 1991 | 4,700 ha | -2.1% |
| 1992 | 4,500 ha | -4.3% |
| 1993 | 4,295 ha | -4.6% |
| 1994 | 4,300 ha | +0.1% |
| 1995 | 4,100 ha | -4.7% |
| 1996 | 4,248 ha | +3.6% |
| 1997 | 4,500 ha | +5.9% |
| 1998 | 3,866 ha | -14.1% |
| 1999 | 3,060 ha | -20.8% |
| 2000 | 3,600 ha | +17.6% |
| 2001 | 3,100 ha | -13.9% |
| 2002 | 2,900 ha | -6.5% |
| 2003 | 3,300 ha | +13.8% |
| 2004 | 3,600 ha | +9.1% |
| 2005 | 4,000 ha | +11.1% |
| 2006 | 4,200 ha | +5.0% |
| 2007 | 4,300 ha | +2.4% |
| 2008 | 4,600 ha | +7.0% |
| 2009 | 5,000 ha | +8.7% |
| 2010 | 5,051 ha | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 5,219 ha | +3.3% |
| 2012 | 5,800 ha | +11.1% |
| 2013 | 6,000 ha | +3.4% |
| 2014 | 6,177 ha | +2.9% |
| 2015 | 6,115 ha | -1.0% |
| 2016 | 6,114 ha | -0.0% |
| 2017 | 6,164 ha | +0.8% |
| 2018 | 6,275 ha | +1.8% |
| 2019 | 6,378 ha | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 5,895 ha | -7.6% |
| 2021 | 5,466 ha | -7.3% |
| 2022 | 5,066 ha | -7.3% |
| 2023 | 3,473 ha | -31.4% |
| 2024 | 9,099 ha | +162.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,000 ha | 2,000 ha | 2,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,949 ha | 1,793 ha | 2,200 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,110 ha | 2,200 ha | 4,200 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,237 ha | 3,060 ha | 4,800 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,860 ha | 2,900 ha | 5,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,929 ha | 5,051 ha | 6,378 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,800 ha | 3,473 ha | 9,099 ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2954 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 250 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5407 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 29.54 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 29.54 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — area harvested in Sierra Leone?
- Sesame seed — area harvested in Sierra Leone was 9,099 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — area harvested recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 9,099 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — area harvested recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,793 ha in 1970.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for sesame seed — area harvested?
- Sierra Leone ranks 41st out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — area harvested rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is up 47.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sesame seed — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.