Sesame seed — Area harvested in Togo
Togo: Sesame seed — Area harvested was 5,677 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sesame seed — Area harvested in Togo, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Togo recorded 5,677 ha for sesame seed — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and down 5.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — area harvested in Togo peaked at 8,000 ha in 1990 and was at its lowest, 4,700 ha, in 1999.
Togo ranks 43rd of 72 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,222 ha | 5,000 ha | 5,500 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 6,700 ha | 6,000 ha | 7,200 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,660 ha | 7,300 ha | 7,900 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,955 ha | 4,700 ha | 8,000 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,020 ha | 4,949 ha | 5,100 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,606 ha | 4,700 ha | 6,000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,602 ha | 5,382 ha | 5,677 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Togo
- 40 Benin 12,000 ha compare
- 41 Sierra Leone 9,099 ha compare
- 42 Kenya 8,687 ha compare
- 44 Uzbekistan 5,209 ha compare
- 45 Colombia 3,676 ha compare
- 46 Saudi Arabia 3,592 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Togo
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 6.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2033 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 281.29 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.15 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0004 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5561 units per person (2025)
- Agriculture share gdp 20.33 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 20.33 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — area harvested in Togo?
- Sesame seed — area harvested in Togo was 5,677 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — area harvested recorded in Togo?
- The highest recorded value was 8,000 ha in 1990.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — area harvested recorded in Togo?
- The lowest recorded value was 4,700 ha in 1999.
- How does Togo rank for sesame seed — area harvested?
- Togo ranks 43rd out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — area harvested rising or falling in Togo?
- Over the last ten years it is down 5.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Togo 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.