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
83
Highest
4,870 kg/ha
Central African Republic
Lowest
32 kg/ha
Bulgaria
Median
700 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,944

What the numbers show

Sesame seed — Yield is currently reported for 83 countries. The highest value is 4,870 kg/ha in Central African Republic; the lowest is 32 kg/ha in Bulgaria.

The median across all reporting countries is 700 kg/ha, and the mean is 852.61 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 152.

Over the past decade 45 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 Central African Republic 4,870 kg/ha 2024 up 0.9% volatile
1 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1,424 kg/ha 2024 up 11.7% rising
2 Lebanon 4,796 kg/ha 2024 up 15.0% volatile
2 Viet Nam 849.6 kg/ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
3 Israel 2,036 kg/ha 2024 up 1.4% volatile
4 Uzbekistan 1,765 kg/ha 2024 up 30.1% volatile
4 United Republic of Tanzania 744.1 kg/ha 2024 up 27.9% rising
5 Italy 1,677 kg/ha 2017 up 192.4% rising
5 Syrian Arab Republic 743.3 kg/ha 2024 down 4.6% rising
6 Tajikistan 1,568 kg/ha 2024 up 58.9% volatile
6 Türkiye 707.6 kg/ha 2024 up 5.1% rising
7 China, mainland 1,520 kg/ha 2024 up 3.5% volatile
7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 690.5 kg/ha 2024 down 13.8% rising
8 China 1,516 kg/ha 2024 up 3.4% volatile
9 Nigeria 1,286 kg/ha 2024 up 65.5% volatile
9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 561.2 kg/ha 2024 up 4.0% falling
10 Cameroon 1,250 kg/ha 2024 down 4.3% volatile
11 Jordan 1,235 kg/ha 2024 up 154.8% volatile
11 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 434.4 kg/ha 2024 down 4.8% falling
12 Iraq 1,229 kg/ha 2024 down 24.6% rising
12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 425.1 kg/ha 2024 down 4.0% 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
21 Caribbean 264.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.7% falling
22 Senegal 957.4 kg/ha 2024 down 3.7% rising
22 Côte d'Ivoire 208.8 kg/ha 2024 up 2.6% falling
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 Benin 833.3 kg/ha 2024 down 8.3% rising
30 Ecuador 804.7 kg/ha 2024 up 0.4% volatile
31 Sri Lanka 797.9 kg/ha 2024 down 18.0% rising
32 El Salvador 790.3 kg/ha 2024 down 6.4% falling
33 Sierra Leone 774 kg/ha 2024 up 42.9% rising
34 Mexico 770.6 kg/ha 2024 up 14.3% rising
35 Cambodia 769.2 kg/ha 2024 up 24.5% rising
36 Ethiopia 716.1 kg/ha 2024 up 2.2% rising
37 Morocco 700 kg/ha 2024 down 1.6% rising
38 Kenya 691.3 kg/ha 2024 up 65.6% rising
39 Thailand 688.9 kg/ha 2024 up 1.8% falling
40 Brazil 656.9 kg/ha 2024 down 6.2% rising
41 Uganda 651.2 kg/ha 2024 down 7.0% rising
42 Burkina Faso 636.3 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% rising
43 Afghanistan 635.9 kg/ha 2024 down 68.2% volatile
44 Paraguay 620 kg/ha 2024 down 10.1% falling
45 Panama 604.3 kg/ha 2018 up 10.4% flat
46 Costa Rica 590.6 kg/ha 2024 down 1.6% rising
47 Pakistan 590 kg/ha 2024 up 47.2% rising
48 Ethiopia PDR 580.6 kg/ha 1992 down 1.1% rising
49 Nicaragua 572.8 kg/ha 2023 down 22.9% falling
50 Niger 566.5 kg/ha 2024 up 35.1% rising
51 India 557.8 kg/ha 2024 up 17.7% rising
52 Japan 531.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.7% falling
53 Chad 509.3 kg/ha 2024 up 4.8% rising
54 Dominican Republic 500 kg/ha 1990 up 7.1% falling
55 Mali 497.3 kg/ha 2024 up 19.1% rising
56 Mozambique 488.9 kg/ha 2024 down 2.2% flat
57 Republic of Korea 477.4 kg/ha 2024 up 11.4% rising
58 Myanmar 473.7 kg/ha 2024 down 13.4% rising
59 Zimbabwe 470.7 kg/ha 2024 — rising
60 Congo 452.9 kg/ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
61 Somalia 441 kg/ha 2024 up 20.5% falling
62 Malawi 415.3 kg/ha 2024 up 51.5% rising
63 Togo 331.5 kg/ha 2024 up 3.0% rising
64 South Sudan 290.3 kg/ha 2024 down 3.8% flat
65 Sudan 279.2 kg/ha 2024 down 2.0% rising
66 Haiti 264.8 kg/ha 2024 down 1.7% falling
67 Angola 259.4 kg/ha 2024 down 0.6% falling
68 Sudan (former) 244.9 kg/ha 2011 up 31.4% falling
69 Guinea 238 kg/ha 2024 up 11.0% rising
70 Yugoslav SFR 200 kg/ha 1991 down 80.0% volatile
71 Eritrea 177.1 kg/ha 2024 down 8.3% falling
72 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.

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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
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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.