Sesame seed — Yield in Kenya
Kenya: Sesame seed — Yield was 691.3 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Yield in Kenya, 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 Kenya is 691.3 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 7.5% on the previous year and up 65.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in Kenya peaked at 888.2 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 242.7 kg/ha, in 1982.
Kenya ranks 38th of 72 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.
Sesame seed — Yield in Kenya, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 390 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 389.9 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1963 | 389.8 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1964 | 390 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1965 | 389.5 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1966 | 389.5 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 400 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1968 | 400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 402.3 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1972 | 402.1 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1973 | 400 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1974 | 400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 407.7 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1976 | 400 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1977 | 406.3 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1978 | 407 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1979 | 410.5 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1980 | 400 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1981 | 396 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1982 | 242.7 kg/ha | -38.7% |
| 1983 | 300 kg/ha | +23.6% |
| 1984 | 344.4 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 1985 | 359 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1986 | 363.6 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1987 | 375 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1988 | 386.1 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1989 | 392.2 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1990 | 395.3 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1991 | 391.3 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1992 | 400 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1993 | 428.6 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1994 | 448.3 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1995 | 428.6 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1996 | 407.4 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 1997 | 428.6 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1998 | 448.3 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1999 | 407.4 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 2000 | 384.6 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2001 | 403.8 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2002 | 401.3 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2003 | 399.2 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2004 | 397.2 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 397.8 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 412.7 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2007 | 414.2 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 415.8 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2009 | 417.4 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2010 | 418.8 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 419.9 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 421.1 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 420.7 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 417.5 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2015 | 417.1 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 418.5 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 888.2 kg/ha | +112.2% |
| 2018 | 689.6 kg/ha | -22.4% |
| 2019 | 855.4 kg/ha | +24.0% |
| 2020 | 860.1 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 546.8 kg/ha | -36.4% |
| 2022 | 596.4 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 2023 | 642.8 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2024 | 691.3 kg/ha | +7.5% |
Kenya compared with similar countries
- Kenya's 691.3 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 734.6 kg/ha, 94% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Kenya's 691.3 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 509.3 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (25 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sesame seed — Yield in Kenya 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | +112.2% | 418.5 kg/ha | 888.2 kg/ha |
| 1982 | -38.7% | 396 kg/ha | 242.7 kg/ha |
| 2021 | -36.4% | 860.1 kg/ha | 546.8 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 393.19 kg/ha | 389.5 kg/ha | 400 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 403.59 kg/ha | 400 kg/ha | 410.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 355.9 kg/ha | 242.7 kg/ha | 400 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 418.38 kg/ha | 391.3 kg/ha | 448.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 404.4 kg/ha | 384.6 kg/ha | 417.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 536.68 kg/ha | 417.1 kg/ha | 888.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 667.48 kg/ha | 546.8 kg/ha | 860.1 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Kenya
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 16.52 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2316 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 547.24 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6779 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 23.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 23.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 12.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in Kenya?
- Sesame seed — yield in Kenya was 691.3 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 888.2 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 242.7 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Kenya rank for sesame seed — yield?
- Kenya ranks 38th out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 65.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.