Sesame seed — Production in Türkiye
Türkiye: Sesame seed — Production was 14,439 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sesame seed — Production in Türkiye, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
Türkiye recorded 14,439 t for sesame seed — production in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is down 10.8% on the previous year and down 18.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — production in Türkiye peaked at 50,000 t in 1968 and was at its lowest, 14,439 t, in 2024.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sesame seed — Production in Türkiye, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 44,000 t | — |
| 1962 | 41,000 t | -6.8% |
| 1963 | 40,000 t | -2.4% |
| 1964 | 34,000 t | -15.0% |
| 1965 | 34,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 32,000 t | -5.9% |
| 1967 | 40,000 t | +25.0% |
| 1968 | 50,000 t | +25.0% |
| 1969 | 41,000 t | -18.0% |
| 1970 | 36,000 t | -12.2% |
| 1971 | 43,000 t | +19.4% |
| 1972 | 33,000 t | -23.3% |
| 1973 | 26,000 t | -21.2% |
| 1974 | 29,000 t | +11.5% |
| 1975 | 33,000 t | +13.8% |
| 1976 | 25,000 t | -24.2% |
| 1977 | 23,500 t | -6.0% |
| 1978 | 23,600 t | +0.4% |
| 1979 | 26,000 t | +10.2% |
| 1980 | 26,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 25,000 t | -3.8% |
| 1982 | 27,000 t | +8.0% |
| 1983 | 38,000 t | +40.7% |
| 1984 | 45,000 t | +18.4% |
| 1985 | 45,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 45,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 43,000 t | -4.4% |
| 1988 | 45,000 t | +4.7% |
| 1989 | 37,000 t | -17.8% |
| 1990 | 39,000 t | +5.4% |
| 1991 | 43,000 t | +10.3% |
| 1992 | 34,000 t | -20.9% |
| 1993 | 30,000 t | -11.8% |
| 1994 | 34,000 t | +13.3% |
| 1995 | 30,000 t | -11.8% |
| 1996 | 30,000 t | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 28,000 t | -6.7% |
| 1998 | 34,000 t | +21.4% |
| 1999 | 28,000 t | -17.6% |
| 2000 | 23,800 t | -15.0% |
| 2001 | 23,000 t | -3.4% |
| 2002 | 22,000 t | -4.3% |
| 2003 | 22,000 t | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 23,000 t | +4.5% |
| 2005 | 26,000 t | +13.0% |
| 2006 | 26,545 t | +2.1% |
| 2007 | 20,010 t | -24.6% |
| 2008 | 20,338 t | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 21,036 t | +3.4% |
| 2010 | 23,460 t | +11.5% |
| 2011 | 18,000 t | -23.3% |
| 2012 | 16,221 t | -9.9% |
| 2013 | 15,457 t | -4.7% |
| 2014 | 17,716 t | +14.6% |
| 2015 | 18,530 t | +4.6% |
| 2016 | 19,521 t | +5.3% |
| 2017 | 18,410 t | -5.7% |
| 2018 | 17,437 t | -5.3% |
| 2019 | 16,893 t | -3.1% |
| 2020 | 18,648 t | +10.4% |
| 2021 | 17,657 t | -5.3% |
| 2022 | 17,366 t | -1.6% |
| 2023 | 16,190 t | -6.8% |
| 2024 | 14,439 t | -10.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 39,556 t | 32,000 t | 50,000 t | 9 |
| 1970s | 29,810 t | 23,500 t | 43,000 t | 10 |
| 1980s | 37,600 t | 25,000 t | 45,000 t | 10 |
| 1990s | 33,000 t | 28,000 t | 43,000 t | 10 |
| 2000s | 22,773 t | 20,010 t | 26,545 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 18,164 t | 15,457 t | 23,460 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,860 t | 14,439 t | 18,648 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Türkiye
- 6 Ethiopia 435,456 t compare
- 6 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 20,362 t compare
- 7 Brazil 399,400 t compare
- 7 Viet Nam 19,576 t compare
- 8 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 15,238 t compare
- 8 China 381,641 t compare
- 9 China, mainland 380,000 t compare
- 10 Sudan (former) 363,000 t compare
- 10 Syrian Arab Republic 11,958 t compare
- 11 Chad 291,397 t compare
- 11 Lao People's Democratic Republic 8,700 t compare
- 12 Burkina Faso 272,201 t compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4,565 t compare
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- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -3.03 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production 7.87 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value -22.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value -10.57 % change on previous year (2024)
- Onions and shallots, dry (excluding dehydrated) — Gross Production 1.23 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 9.79 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) -0.5779 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 21.05 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — production in Türkiye?
- Sesame seed — production in Türkiye was 14,439 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — production recorded in Türkiye?
- The highest recorded value was 50,000 t in 1968.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — production recorded in Türkiye?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,439 t in 2024.
- How does Türkiye rank for sesame seed — production?
- Türkiye ranks 9th out of 13 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — production rising or falling in Türkiye?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Türkiye 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.