Sesame seed — Yield in Myanmar
Myanmar: Sesame seed — Yield was 473.7 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Yield in Myanmar, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Myanmar recorded 473.7 kg/ha for sesame seed — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.5% on the previous year and down 13.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in Myanmar peaked at 587 kg/ha in 2008 and was at its lowest, 118.5 kg/ha, in 1967.
That places Myanmar 64th out of 82 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 149.48 kg/ha | 118.5 kg/ha | 182.7 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 172.35 kg/ha | 142.3 kg/ha | 218.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 235.15 kg/ha | 174.3 kg/ha | 270.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 270.89 kg/ha | 209.1 kg/ha | 357.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 399.9 kg/ha | 292.4 kg/ha | 587 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 526.02 kg/ha | 479.6 kg/ha | 548 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 470.88 kg/ha | 455.1 kg/ha | 481.6 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Myanmar
More agriculture & rural data for Myanmar
- Agriculture share gdp 25.3 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 25.3 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2024)
- Rural population 69.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 38.08 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 25.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 20.66 billion current US$ (2025)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 26,644 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in Myanmar?
- Sesame seed — yield in Myanmar was 473.7 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in Myanmar?
- The highest recorded value was 587 kg/ha in 2008.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in Myanmar?
- The lowest recorded value was 118.5 kg/ha in 1967.
- How does Myanmar rank for sesame seed — yield?
- Myanmar ranks 64th out of 82 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in Myanmar?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Myanmar 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.