Sesame seed — Production in Asia
Asia: Sesame seed — Production was 2.64 million t in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Production in Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Asia recorded 2.64 million t for sesame seed — production in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 5.8% on the previous year and up 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — production in Asia peaked at 2.64 million t in 2024 and was at its lowest, 795,057 t, in 1961.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sesame seed — Production in Asia, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 795,057 t | — |
| 1962 | 998,689 t | +25.6% |
| 1963 | 963,023 t | -3.6% |
| 1964 | 1.01 million t | +4.6% |
| 1965 | 943,480 t | -6.3% |
| 1966 | 933,888 t | -1.0% |
| 1967 | 987,275 t | +5.7% |
| 1968 | 975,882 t | -1.2% |
| 1969 | 976,326 t | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1.11 million t | +13.8% |
| 1971 | 1.05 million t | -5.3% |
| 1972 | 929,959 t | -11.6% |
| 1973 | 981,203 t | +5.5% |
| 1974 | 962,330 t | -1.9% |
| 1975 | 978,673 t | +1.7% |
| 1976 | 993,962 t | +1.6% |
| 1977 | 1.06 million t | +6.4% |
| 1978 | 1.18 million t | +12.0% |
| 1979 | 1.19 million t | +0.7% |
| 1980 | 1.03 million t | -13.3% |
| 1981 | 1.49 million t | +44.0% |
| 1982 | 1.31 million t | -12.3% |
| 1983 | 1.36 million t | +4.2% |
| 1984 | 1.46 million t | +7.5% |
| 1985 | 1.73 million t | +17.9% |
| 1986 | 1.60 million t | -7.2% |
| 1987 | 1.58 million t | -1.3% |
| 1988 | 1.54 million t | -2.8% |
| 1989 | 1.51 million t | -1.7% |
| 1990 | 1.79 million t | +18.8% |
| 1991 | 1.60 million t | -10.6% |
| 1992 | 1.82 million t | +13.3% |
| 1993 | 1.64 million t | -9.6% |
| 1994 | 1.72 million t | +4.9% |
| 1995 | 1.72 million t | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 1.87 million t | +8.7% |
| 1997 | 1.70 million t | -9.1% |
| 1998 | 1.64 million t | -3.6% |
| 1999 | 1.74 million t | +6.2% |
| 2000 | 2.01 million t | +15.2% |
| 2001 | 2.15 million t | +6.9% |
| 2002 | 2.01 million t | -6.5% |
| 2003 | 2.09 million t | +4.1% |
| 2004 | 2.20 million t | +5.3% |
| 2005 | 2.13 million t | -3.2% |
| 2006 | 2.22 million t | +4.2% |
| 2007 | 2.33 million t | +5.3% |
| 2008 | 2.40 million t | +3.0% |
| 2009 | 2.35 million t | -2.2% |
| 2010 | 2.62 million t | +11.4% |
| 2011 | 2.63 million t | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 2.46 million t | -6.4% |
| 2013 | 2.51 million t | +1.7% |
| 2014 | 2.57 million t | +2.7% |
| 2015 | 2.45 million t | -4.9% |
| 2016 | 2.23 million t | -8.8% |
| 2017 | 2.19 million t | -2.0% |
| 2018 | 2.13 million t | -2.9% |
| 2019 | 2.19 million t | +3.0% |
| 2020 | 2.31 million t | +5.4% |
| 2021 | 2.36 million t | +2.2% |
| 2022 | 1.98 million t | -16.1% |
| 2023 | 2.50 million t | +26.0% |
| 2024 | 2.64 million t | +5.8% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sesame seed — Production in Asia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | +44.0% | 1.03 million t | 1.49 million t |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 953,422 t | 795,057 t | 1.01 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.04 million t | 929,959 t | 1.19 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.46 million t | 1.03 million t | 1.73 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.73 million t | 1.60 million t | 1.87 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 2.19 million t | 2.01 million t | 2.40 million t | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.40 million t | 2.13 million t | 2.63 million t | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.36 million t | 1.98 million t | 2.64 million t | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — production in Asia?
- Sesame seed — production in Asia was 2.64 million t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — production recorded in Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 2.64 million t in 2024.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — production recorded in Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 795,057 t in 1961.
- How does Asia rank for sesame seed — production?
- Asia ranks 2nd out of 13 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — production rising or falling in Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Asia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sesame seed — Production. 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.