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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Central Asia 1,740 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 1,443 kg/ha
- Eastern Europe 1,122 kg/ha
- Middle Africa 829.2 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 1,066 kg/ha
- Europe 1,016 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 1,016 kg/ha
- Western Asia 855.2 kg/ha
- Central America 800.8 kg/ha
- Asia 605.2 kg/ha
- Western Africa 799.2 kg/ha
- Americas 649.2 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 486.1 kg/ha
- South America 637.7 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 607.9 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 578 kg/ha
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 264.8 kg/ha
- World 570.1 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 548.5 kg/ha
- Africa 536.1 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 497.6 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 495.3 kg/ha
- South-Eastern Asia 491.1 kg/ha
- Northern Africa 292.2 kg/ha
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.