Sesame seed — Yield in Eastern Asia
Eastern Asia: Sesame seed — Yield was 1,443 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Yield in Eastern Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Asia recorded 1,443 kg/ha for sesame seed — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 5.7% on the previous year and up 3.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in Eastern Asia peaked at 1,554 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 299.5 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Eastern Asia 2nd out of 22 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sesame seed — Yield in Eastern Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 299.5 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 361.3 kg/ha | +20.6% |
| 1963 | 328.6 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1964 | 392.4 kg/ha | +19.4% |
| 1965 | 389.6 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1966 | 428.2 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1967 | 451.4 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1968 | 396.3 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 1969 | 429.1 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1970 | 471.6 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1971 | 474.2 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1972 | 434.2 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 1973 | 445.3 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1974 | 425.4 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1975 | 398.9 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1976 | 422.9 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1977 | 441.4 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1978 | 500.2 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 1979 | 483.4 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1980 | 323.7 kg/ha | -33.0% |
| 1981 | 612.9 kg/ha | +89.3% |
| 1982 | 353.3 kg/ha | -42.4% |
| 1983 | 446.9 kg/ha | +26.5% |
| 1984 | 556.2 kg/ha | +24.5% |
| 1985 | 650.5 kg/ha | +17.0% |
| 1986 | 608.1 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1987 | 591 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1988 | 584 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1989 | 479.3 kg/ha | -17.9% |
| 1990 | 697.4 kg/ha | +45.5% |
| 1991 | 631.7 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 1992 | 687.6 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1993 | 724 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1994 | 787.9 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1995 | 885.3 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 1996 | 949.9 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1997 | 974.4 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1998 | 1,001 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1999 | 1,027 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2000 | 1,017 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2001 | 1,041 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2002 | 1,144 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2003 | 837.4 kg/ha | -26.8% |
| 2004 | 1,104 kg/ha | +31.8% |
| 2005 | 1,034 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2006 | 1,129 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 2007 | 1,110 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2008 | 1,209 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2009 | 1,242 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2010 | 1,263 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2011 | 1,326 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2012 | 1,404 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2013 | 1,437 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2014 | 1,402 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2015 | 1,032 kg/ha | -26.4% |
| 2016 | 1,334 kg/ha | +29.2% |
| 2017 | 1,473 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 2018 | 1,543 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2019 | 1,554 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2020 | 1,468 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2021 | 1,524 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2022 | 1,532 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2023 | 1,531 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 1,443 kg/ha | -5.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sesame seed — Yield in Eastern Asia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | +89.3% | 323.7 kg/ha | 612.9 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 386.27 kg/ha | 299.5 kg/ha | 451.4 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 449.75 kg/ha | 398.9 kg/ha | 500.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 520.59 kg/ha | 323.7 kg/ha | 650.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 836.62 kg/ha | 631.7 kg/ha | 1,027 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,087 kg/ha | 837.4 kg/ha | 1,242 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,377 kg/ha | 1,032 kg/ha | 1,554 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,500 kg/ha | 1,443 kg/ha | 1,532 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Asia
- 1 Central African Republic 4,870 kg/ha compare
- 1 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1,424 kg/ha compare
- 2 Lebanon 4,796 kg/ha compare
- 2 Viet Nam 849.6 kg/ha compare
- 3 Israel 2,036 kg/ha compare
- 4 United Republic of Tanzania 744.1 kg/ha compare
- 4 Uzbekistan 1,765 kg/ha compare
- 5 Italy 1,677 kg/ha compare
- 5 Syrian Arab Republic 743.3 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in Eastern Asia?
- Sesame seed — yield in Eastern Asia was 1,443 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in Eastern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 1,554 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in Eastern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 299.5 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Eastern Asia rank for sesame seed — yield?
- Eastern Asia ranks 2nd out of 22 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in Eastern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Asia 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.