Sesame seed — Yield in Haiti
Haiti: Sesame seed — Yield was 264.8 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sesame seed — Yield in Haiti, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Haiti recorded 264.8 kg/ha for sesame seed — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and down 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in Haiti peaked at 321.4 kg/ha in 1978 and was at its lowest, 228.6 kg/ha, in 2003.
Haiti ranks 66th of 72 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sesame seed — Yield in Haiti, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 275 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 281.3 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1963 | 287.5 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1964 | 293.8 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1965 | 300 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1966 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 307.7 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1969 | 300 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1970 | 307.7 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1971 | 303 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1972 | 300 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1973 | 285.7 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1974 | 300 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1975 | 304.3 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1976 | 307.7 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1977 | 300 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1978 | 321.4 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1979 | 297 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1980 | 296.3 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1981 | 300 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1982 | 300 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 296.6 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1984 | 296.6 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 293.3 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1986 | 293.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 293.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 289.7 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1989 | 289.7 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 285.7 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1991 | 284.9 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1992 | 292.3 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1993 | 279.1 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1994 | 292.3 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1995 | 284.7 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1996 | 286.8 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1997 | 283.3 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1998 | 282.1 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1999 | 283.3 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2000 | 292.3 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2001 | 292.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 240.7 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 2003 | 228.6 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2004 | 289.7 kg/ha | +26.7% |
| 2005 | 283 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2006 | 268.2 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2007 | 269.9 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2008 | 270 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 270 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 270.1 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 270.1 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 270.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 270.2 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 269.5 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2015 | 270.7 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 267.5 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2017 | 266.5 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2018 | 265.4 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2019 | 264.4 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2020 | 264.5 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 265.3 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 265.7 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 265.2 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2024 | 264.8 kg/ha | -0.2% |
Haiti compared with similar countries
- Haiti's 264.8 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 734.6 kg/ha, 36% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Haiti's 264.8 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 713.75 kg/ha, 37% of the median. (14 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sesame seed — Yield in Haiti 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | +26.7% | 228.6 kg/ha | 289.7 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 293.92 kg/ha | 275 kg/ha | 307.7 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 302.68 kg/ha | 285.7 kg/ha | 321.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 294.88 kg/ha | 289.7 kg/ha | 300 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 285.45 kg/ha | 279.1 kg/ha | 292.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 270.47 kg/ha | 228.6 kg/ha | 292.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 268.46 kg/ha | 264.4 kg/ha | 270.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 265.1 kg/ha | 264.5 kg/ha | 265.7 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Haiti
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 26.66 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1581 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 425.88 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.1649 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4439 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 15.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 15.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.2% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2016)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in Haiti?
- Sesame seed — yield in Haiti was 264.8 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in Haiti?
- The highest recorded value was 321.4 kg/ha in 1978.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in Haiti?
- The lowest recorded value was 228.6 kg/ha in 2003.
- How does Haiti rank for sesame seed — yield?
- Haiti ranks 66th out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in Haiti?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Haiti 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.