Sesame seed — Yield in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Sesame seed — Yield was 774 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sesame seed — Yield in Sierra Leone, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sesame seed — yield in Sierra Leone stood at 774 kg/ha.
The figure is down 18.0% on the previous year and up 42.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sesame seed — yield in Sierra Leone peaked at 944.2 kg/ha in 2023 and was at its lowest, 346.2 kg/ha, in 1982.
That places Sierra Leone 33rd out of 72 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 Sierra Leone, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 500 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 400 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1967 | 400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1969 | 400 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 448.4 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 1971 | 444.4 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1972 | 444.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 444.4 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 450 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1975 | 450 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 500 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1977 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 476.2 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 1979 | 500 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1980 | 500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 541.7 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1982 | 346.2 kg/ha | -36.1% |
| 1983 | 357.1 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1984 | 700 kg/ha | +96.0% |
| 1985 | 548.4 kg/ha | -21.7% |
| 1986 | 545.5 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1987 | 540.5 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1988 | 526.3 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1989 | 523.8 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1990 | 500 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1991 | 574.5 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 1992 | 600 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1993 | 597.2 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1994 | 604.7 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1995 | 585.4 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1996 | 595.3 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1997 | 622.2 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1998 | 605.5 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1999 | 613.1 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2000 | 583.3 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2001 | 612.9 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2002 | 620.7 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2003 | 606.1 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2004 | 611.1 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2005 | 600 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2006 | 619 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2007 | 604.7 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2008 | 608.7 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2009 | 600 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2010 | 579.6 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2011 | 566.7 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2012 | 517.2 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 2013 | 533.3 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2014 | 541.8 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2015 | 543.8 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 549.1 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2017 | 549.3 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 546.5 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2019 | 544 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2020 | 600.5 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 2021 | 656.7 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2022 | 704.4 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2023 | 944.2 kg/ha | +34.0% |
| 2024 | 774 kg/ha | -18.0% |
Sierra Leone compared with similar countries
- Sierra Leone's 774 kg/ha is above the median for low income countries, which is 566.5 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (17 countries reporting)
- Sierra Leone's 774 kg/ha is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 509.3 kg/ha, 1.5× the median. (25 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sesame seed — Yield in Sierra Leone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | +96.0% | 357.1 kg/ha | 700 kg/ha |
| 1982 | -36.1% | 541.7 kg/ha | 346.2 kg/ha |
| 2023 | +34.0% | 704.4 kg/ha | 944.2 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 455.56 kg/ha | 400 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 465.78 kg/ha | 444.4 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 512.95 kg/ha | 346.2 kg/ha | 700 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 589.79 kg/ha | 500 kg/ha | 622.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 606.65 kg/ha | 583.3 kg/ha | 620.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 547.13 kg/ha | 517.2 kg/ha | 579.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 735.96 kg/ha | 600.5 kg/ha | 944.2 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Sierra Leone
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.47 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2954 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 250 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5407 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 29.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 29.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.4% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sesame seed — yield in Sierra Leone?
- Sesame seed — yield in Sierra Leone was 774 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sesame seed — yield recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The highest recorded value was 944.2 kg/ha in 2023.
- What is the lowest sesame seed — yield recorded in Sierra Leone?
- The lowest recorded value was 346.2 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Sierra Leone rank for sesame seed — yield?
- Sierra Leone ranks 33rd out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sesame seed — yield rising or falling in Sierra Leone?
- Over the last ten years it is up 42.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sierra Leone 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.