Sesame seed — Yield in Americas
Americas: Sesame seed — Yield was 649.2 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Americas recorded 649.2 kg/ha for sesame seed — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 11.8% on the previous year and down 8.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in Americas peaked at 727.9 kg/ha in 2013 and was at its lowest, 479.2 kg/ha, in 1976.
That places Americas 10th out of 22 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sesame seed — Yield in Americas, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 633.8 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 615.1 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1963 | 630.5 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1964 | 649.7 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1965 | 595 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 1966 | 651.8 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 1967 | 588.4 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1968 | 600.9 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1969 | 626.7 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1970 | 679.5 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1971 | 618 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1972 | 594.7 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1973 | 633.5 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1974 | 567.2 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 1975 | 514.7 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 1976 | 479.2 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1977 | 577.5 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 1978 | 532.9 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1979 | 595.8 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 1980 | 556.2 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1981 | 564.9 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1982 | 528.8 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1983 | 551.5 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1984 | 544.1 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1985 | 560.4 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1986 | 561.6 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1987 | 494.7 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 1988 | 490.3 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1989 | 545.8 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1990 | 560.4 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1991 | 507.8 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 1992 | 602.4 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 1993 | 622.2 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1994 | 617.6 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1995 | 623.8 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1996 | 628.5 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1997 | 555.1 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1998 | 571.3 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1999 | 628.5 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2000 | 561.4 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 2001 | 618.9 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2002 | 671.4 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2003 | 647 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2004 | 657.9 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2005 | 607.2 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 2006 | 635.9 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2007 | 631.7 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2008 | 615.5 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2009 | 626.3 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2010 | 565.7 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 2011 | 582.2 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2012 | 627.1 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2013 | 727.9 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 2014 | 705.9 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2015 | 683.8 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2016 | 624.8 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 2017 | 641.8 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2018 | 673.4 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2019 | 604.5 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 2020 | 540.4 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 2021 | 611.9 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 2022 | 532 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 2023 | 580.8 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 2024 | 649.2 kg/ha | +11.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 621.32 kg/ha | 588.4 kg/ha | 651.8 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 579.3 kg/ha | 479.2 kg/ha | 679.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 539.83 kg/ha | 490.3 kg/ha | 564.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 591.76 kg/ha | 507.8 kg/ha | 628.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 627.32 kg/ha | 561.4 kg/ha | 671.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 643.71 kg/ha | 565.7 kg/ha | 727.9 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 582.86 kg/ha | 532 kg/ha | 649.2 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 7 China, mainland 1,520 kg/ha compare
- 7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 690.5 kg/ha compare
- 8 China 1,516 kg/ha compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 561.2 kg/ha compare
- 9 Nigeria 1,286 kg/ha compare
- 10 Cameroon 1,250 kg/ha compare
- 11 Jordan 1,235 kg/ha compare
- 11 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 434.4 kg/ha compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 425.1 kg/ha compare
- 12 Iraq 1,229 kg/ha compare
- 13 Saudi Arabia 1,216 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.8368 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.91 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.12 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.7578 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.7575 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.67 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in Americas?
- Sesame seed — yield in Americas was 649.2 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 727.9 kg/ha in 2013.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 479.2 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Americas rank for sesame seed — yield?
- Americas ranks 10th out of 22 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sesame seed — Yield. 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.