Sesame seed — Yield in Colombia
Colombia: Sesame seed — Yield was 884.8 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Yield in Colombia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Colombia recorded 884.8 kg/ha for sesame seed — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 6.0% on the previous year and up 25.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in Colombia peaked at 1,502 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 489.2 kg/ha, in 1973.
Colombia ranks 27th of 82 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 611.92 kg/ha | 500.3 kg/ha | 797 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 573.68 kg/ha | 489.2 kg/ha | 668.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 583.04 kg/ha | 533.1 kg/ha | 625.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 633.93 kg/ha | 559.8 kg/ha | 678.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 688.45 kg/ha | 600 kg/ha | 833.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 855.16 kg/ha | 549.1 kg/ha | 1,502 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 863.84 kg/ha | 768 kg/ha | 941.3 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Colombia
- Agriculture share gdp 9.95 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.95 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 21.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth -0.2% (2025)
- Rural population 11.34 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.9% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 45.49 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.64 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in Colombia?
- Sesame seed — yield in Colombia was 884.8 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in Colombia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,502 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in Colombia?
- The lowest recorded value was 489.2 kg/ha in 1973.
- How does Colombia rank for sesame seed — yield?
- Colombia ranks 27th out of 82 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in Colombia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 25.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Colombia 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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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.