Sesame seed — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs): Sesame seed — Yield was 497.6 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sesame seed — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) stood at 497.6 kg/ha.
The figure is up 2.2% on the previous year and up 2.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) peaked at 553.6 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 261.5 kg/ha, in 1999.
That places Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 17th out of 22 groups 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.
Sesame seed — Yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 373.1 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 347.8 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 1963 | 331.9 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1964 | 339.6 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1965 | 308 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 1966 | 312.5 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1967 | 323 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1968 | 303.1 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1969 | 322.2 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1970 | 361.8 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1971 | 339.6 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1972 | 306 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 1973 | 316 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1974 | 305.7 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1975 | 292.4 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1976 | 309.4 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1977 | 303.6 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1978 | 303.4 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1979 | 307.2 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1980 | 306.9 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1981 | 333.1 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1982 | 345.4 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1983 | 291.9 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 1984 | 299.4 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1985 | 270.5 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1986 | 310 kg/ha | +14.6% |
| 1987 | 314.6 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1988 | 289.5 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1989 | 271.3 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1990 | 323.3 kg/ha | +19.2% |
| 1991 | 311.7 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1992 | 291.4 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1993 | 272.9 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1994 | 264.7 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1995 | 320.7 kg/ha | +21.2% |
| 1996 | 321.9 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1997 | 307.8 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1998 | 303.4 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1999 | 261.5 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 2000 | 271.9 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2001 | 312.1 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 2002 | 325.5 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2003 | 342.1 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2004 | 368.5 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2005 | 399.4 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2006 | 398.7 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2007 | 463.4 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 2008 | 466.8 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2009 | 472.7 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2010 | 518.5 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 2011 | 553.6 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2012 | 540 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2013 | 458.8 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 2014 | 486.3 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2015 | 531.9 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2016 | 519.2 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2017 | 512 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2018 | 476.8 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2019 | 477.3 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 435.9 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 2021 | 432 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2022 | 456.8 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2023 | 486.8 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2024 | 497.6 kg/ha | +2.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 329.02 kg/ha | 303.1 kg/ha | 373.1 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 314.51 kg/ha | 292.4 kg/ha | 361.8 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 303.26 kg/ha | 270.5 kg/ha | 345.4 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 297.93 kg/ha | 261.5 kg/ha | 323.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 382.11 kg/ha | 271.9 kg/ha | 472.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 507.44 kg/ha | 458.8 kg/ha | 553.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 461.82 kg/ha | 432 kg/ha | 497.6 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Sesame seed — yield in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) was 497.6 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 553.6 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 261.5 kg/ha in 1999.
- How does Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank for sesame seed — yield?
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 17th out of 22 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 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.