Sugar beet yields in Turkey
Turkey: Sugar beet yields was 70.92 tonnes per hectare in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sugar beet yields in Turkey, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025); Brassley (2000) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in tonnes per hectare.
Analysis
Turkey recorded 70.92 tonnes per hectare for sugar beet yields in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.3% on the previous year and up 21.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar beet yields in Turkey peaked at 70.92 tonnes per hectare in 2024 and was at its lowest, 21.69 tonnes per hectare, in 1965.
Turkey ranks 15th of 65 countries on this measure, in the top 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 | 27.69 tonnes per hectare | 21.69 tonnes per hectare | 37.27 tonnes per hectare | 9 |
| 1970s | 34.71 tonnes per hectare | 30.86 tonnes per hectare | 39.76 tonnes per hectare | 10 |
| 1980s | 32.16 tonnes per hectare | 25.69 tonnes per hectare | 36.51 tonnes per hectare | 10 |
| 1990s | 37.9 tonnes per hectare | 31.92 tonnes per hectare | 44.48 tonnes per hectare | 10 |
| 2000s | 44.21 tonnes per hectare | 35.42 tonnes per hectare | 53.32 tonnes per hectare | 10 |
| 2010s | 57.76 tonnes per hectare | 53.25 tonnes per hectare | 62.41 tonnes per hectare | 10 |
| 2020s | 66.54 tonnes per hectare | 58.76 tonnes per hectare | 70.92 tonnes per hectare | 5 |
Countries ranked near Turkey
- 12 United States 72.85 tonnes per hectare compare
- 13 Japan 71.27 tonnes per hectare compare
- 14 Kyrgyzstan 71 tonnes per hectare compare
- 16 Lithuania 69.86 tonnes per hectare compare
- 17 Czechia 69.56 tonnes per hectare compare
- 18 Switzerland 67.75 tonnes per hectare compare
More agriculture & rural data for Turkey
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 83.21 billion current US$ (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 5.2% (2025)
- Rural population 9.02 million (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.0% (2025)
- Rural population 10.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 5.2% (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 5.2% (2025)
- Land under cereal production 11.38 million hectares (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar beet yields in Turkey?
- Sugar beet yields in Turkey was 70.92 tonnes per hectare in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025); Brassley (2000) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest sugar beet yields recorded in Turkey?
- The highest recorded value was 70.92 tonnes per hectare in 2024.
- What is the lowest sugar beet yields recorded in Turkey?
- The lowest recorded value was 21.69 tonnes per hectare in 1965.
- How does Turkey rank for sugar beet yields?
- Turkey ranks 15th out of 65 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sugar beet yields rising or falling in Turkey?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Turkey data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025); Brassley (2000) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Sugar beet yields. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data).
About this data
Yields are measured in tonnes per hectare.