Sesame seed — 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...

Countries reporting
82
Highest
4,796 kg/ha
Lebanon
Lowest
32 kg/ha
Bulgaria
Median
695.65 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,944

What the numbers show

Sesame seed — Yield is currently reported for 82 countries. The highest value is 4,796 kg/ha in Lebanon; the lowest is 32 kg/ha in Bulgaria.

The median across all reporting countries is 695.65 kg/ha, and the mean is 803.63 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 150.

Over the past decade 44 countries rose and 37 fell. The largest increase was in USSR (up 461.2%), and the largest decrease in Yugoslav SFR (down 80.0%).

Sesame seed — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Lebanon 4,796 kg/ha 2024 up 15.0% volatile
2 Israel 2,036 kg/ha 2024 up 1.4% volatile
3 Uzbekistan 1,765 kg/ha 2024 up 30.1% volatile
4 Italy 1,677 kg/ha 2017 up 192.4% rising
5 Tajikistan 1,568 kg/ha 2024 up 58.9% volatile
6 China, mainland 1,520 kg/ha 2024 up 3.5% volatile
7 China 1,516 kg/ha 2024 up 3.4% volatile
8 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1,424 kg/ha 2024 up 11.7% rising
9 Nigeria 1,286 kg/ha 2024 up 65.5% volatile
10 Cameroon 1,250 kg/ha 2024 down 4.3% volatile
11 Jordan 1,235 kg/ha 2024 up 154.8% volatile
12 Iraq 1,229 kg/ha 2024 down 24.6% rising
13 Saudi Arabia 1,216 kg/ha 2024 down 28.1% rising
14 Gambia 1,147 kg/ha 2024 up 205.4% volatile
15 USSR 1,122 kg/ha 1990 up 461.2% volatile
16 North Macedonia 1,016 kg/ha 2024 down 7.0% falling
17 Yemen 1,000 kg/ha 2024 down 7.6% rising
18 Cyprus 1,000 kg/ha 2017 up 400.0% volatile
19 Peru 986.6 kg/ha 2024 up 7.9% rising
20 Bangladesh 976 kg/ha 2024 up 9.8% rising
21 Egypt 965.5 kg/ha 2024 down 29.7% rising
22 Senegal 957.4 kg/ha 2024 down 3.7% rising
23 Palestine 952.7 kg/ha 2022 up 35.6% rising
24 China, Taiwan Province of 911.5 kg/ha 2024 down 12.3% rising
25 Greece 905.6 kg/ha 2017 up 35.6% rising
26 Honduras 893.2 kg/ha 2024 down 1.7% rising
27 Colombia 884.8 kg/ha 2024 up 25.6% rising
28 Guatemala 857.1 kg/ha 2024 down 38.7% rising
29 Viet Nam 849.6 kg/ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
30 Benin 833.3 kg/ha 2024 down 8.3% rising
31 Ecuador 804.7 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% volatile
32 Sri Lanka 797.9 kg/ha 2024 down 18.0% rising
33 El Salvador 790.3 kg/ha 2024 down 6.4% falling
34 Sierra Leone 774 kg/ha 2024 up 42.9% rising
35 Mexico 770.6 kg/ha 2024 up 14.3% rising
36 Cambodia 769.2 kg/ha 2024 up 24.5% rising
37 United Republic of Tanzania 744.1 kg/ha 2024 up 27.9% rising
38 Syrian Arab Republic 743.3 kg/ha 2024 down 4.6% rising
39 Ethiopia 716.1 kg/ha 2024 up 2.2% rising
40 Türkiye 707.6 kg/ha 2024 up 5.1% rising
41 Morocco 700 kg/ha 2024 down 1.6% rising
42 Kenya 691.3 kg/ha 2024 up 65.6% rising
43 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 690.5 kg/ha 2024 down 13.8% rising
44 Thailand 688.9 kg/ha 2024 up 1.8% falling
45 Brazil 656.9 kg/ha 2024 down 6.2% rising
46 Uganda 651.2 kg/ha 2024 down 7.0% rising
47 Burkina Faso 636.3 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
48 Afghanistan 635.9 kg/ha 2024 down 68.2% volatile
49 Paraguay 620 kg/ha 2024 down 10.1% falling
50 Panama 604.3 kg/ha 2018 up 10.4% flat
51 Costa Rica 590.6 kg/ha 2024 down 1.6% rising
52 Pakistan 590 kg/ha 2024 up 47.2% rising
53 Ethiopia PDR 580.6 kg/ha 1992 down 1.1% rising
54 Nicaragua 572.8 kg/ha 2023 down 22.9% falling
55 Niger 566.5 kg/ha 2024 up 35.1% rising
56 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 561.2 kg/ha 2024 up 4.0% falling
57 India 557.8 kg/ha 2024 up 17.7% rising
58 Japan 531.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.7% falling
59 Chad 509.3 kg/ha 2024 up 4.8% rising
60 Dominican Republic 500 kg/ha 1990 up 7.1% falling
61 Mali 497.3 kg/ha 2024 up 19.1% rising
62 Mozambique 488.9 kg/ha 2024 down 2.2% flat
63 Republic of Korea 477.4 kg/ha 2024 up 11.4% rising
64 Myanmar 473.7 kg/ha 2024 down 13.4% rising
65 Zimbabwe 470.7 kg/ha 2024 rising
66 Congo 452.9 kg/ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
67 Somalia 441 kg/ha 2024 up 20.5% falling
68 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 434.4 kg/ha 2024 down 4.8% falling
69 Democratic Republic of the Congo 425.1 kg/ha 2024 down 4.0% rising
70 Malawi 415.3 kg/ha 2024 up 51.5% rising
71 Togo 331.5 kg/ha 2024 up 3.0% rising
72 South Sudan 290.3 kg/ha 2024 down 3.8% flat
73 Sudan 279.2 kg/ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
74 Haiti 264.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.7% falling
74 Caribbean 264.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.7% falling
76 Angola 259.4 kg/ha 2024 down 0.6% falling
77 Sudan (former) 244.9 kg/ha 2011 up 31.4% falling
78 Guinea 238 kg/ha 2024 up 11.0% rising
79 Côte d'Ivoire 208.8 kg/ha 2024 up 2.6% falling
80 Yugoslav SFR 200 kg/ha 1991 down 80.0% volatile
81 Eritrea 177.1 kg/ha 2024 down 8.3% falling
82 Bulgaria 32 kg/ha 1979 down 62.5% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Sesame seed — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
107 places, 5,944 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.