Sesame seed — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Sesame seed — Yield was 486.1 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) recorded 486.1 kg/ha for sesame seed — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 3.5% on the previous year and up 0.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 554.6 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 243.2 kg/ha, in 1999.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sesame seed — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 365.6 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 329.7 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 1963 | 309.6 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1964 | 308.2 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1965 | 277.8 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 1966 | 281.3 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1967 | 290 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1968 | 276.5 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1969 | 292.1 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1970 | 319.3 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1971 | 312.9 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1972 | 284.4 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1973 | 288.2 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1974 | 289.3 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1975 | 270.9 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1976 | 291.2 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1977 | 275.1 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1978 | 282.6 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1979 | 285.2 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1980 | 276.9 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1981 | 310.3 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 1982 | 321.6 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1983 | 272 kg/ha | -15.4% |
| 1984 | 279.6 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1985 | 251.2 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 1986 | 293.7 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1987 | 299.3 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1988 | 268.4 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1989 | 247 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1990 | 298.8 kg/ha | +21.0% |
| 1991 | 287.2 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1992 | 274.7 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1993 | 252.7 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1994 | 248 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1995 | 304.8 kg/ha | +22.9% |
| 1996 | 305 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1997 | 287.5 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1998 | 283.7 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1999 | 243.2 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 2000 | 252.3 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2001 | 291.8 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 2002 | 318.4 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 2003 | 332.1 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2004 | 359.1 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2005 | 386.8 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2006 | 390.1 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2007 | 457.6 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 2008 | 462.4 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2009 | 467.8 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2010 | 518.1 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 2011 | 554.6 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 2012 | 538.2 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2013 | 455.6 kg/ha | -15.3% |
| 2014 | 483.8 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2015 | 530.8 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 2016 | 518.5 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2017 | 510.4 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2018 | 474.9 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2019 | 475.2 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 428.8 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 2021 | 422.8 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2022 | 448.5 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2023 | 469.5 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2024 | 486.1 kg/ha | +3.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 303.42 kg/ha | 276.5 kg/ha | 365.6 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 289.91 kg/ha | 270.9 kg/ha | 319.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 282 kg/ha | 247 kg/ha | 321.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 278.56 kg/ha | 243.2 kg/ha | 305 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 371.84 kg/ha | 252.3 kg/ha | 467.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 506.01 kg/ha | 455.6 kg/ha | 554.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 451.14 kg/ha | 422.8 kg/ha | 486.1 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
- 7 China, mainland 1,520 kg/ha compare
- 7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 690.5 kg/ha compare
- 8 China 1,516 kg/ha compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 561.2 kg/ha compare
- 9 Nigeria 1,286 kg/ha compare
- 10 Cameroon 1,250 kg/ha compare
- 11 Jordan 1,235 kg/ha compare
- 11 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 434.4 kg/ha compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 425.1 kg/ha compare
- 12 Iraq 1,229 kg/ha compare
- 13 Saudi Arabia 1,216 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Sesame seed — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 486.1 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 554.6 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 243.2 kg/ha in 1999.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for sesame seed — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 10th out of 13 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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.