Sesame seed — Yield in El Salvador
El Salvador: Sesame seed — Yield was 790.3 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sesame seed — Yield in El Salvador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sesame seed — yield in El Salvador is 790.3 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.2% on the previous year and down 6.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in El Salvador peaked at 1,300 kg/ha in 1974 and was at its lowest, 390.2 kg/ha, in 1986.
That places El Salvador 33rd out of 82 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 999.91 kg/ha | 818.2 kg/ha | 1,089 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 924.9 kg/ha | 591.5 kg/ha | 1,300 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 757.43 kg/ha | 390.2 kg/ha | 937.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 651.62 kg/ha | 473.3 kg/ha | 788.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 754.49 kg/ha | 686.2 kg/ha | 780.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 717.55 kg/ha | 614.6 kg/ha | 878.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 828.46 kg/ha | 779.2 kg/ha | 995 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for El Salvador
- Agriculture share gdp 4.4 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.4 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
- Rural population 24.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 1.56 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.4% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.62 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 20,054 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in El Salvador?
- Sesame seed — yield in El Salvador was 790.3 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 1,300 kg/ha in 1974.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 390.2 kg/ha in 1986.
- How does El Salvador rank for sesame seed — yield?
- El Salvador ranks 33rd out of 82 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is down 6.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this El Salvador 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.