Sunflower seed — Yield by country

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...

Countries reporting
83
Highest
3,273 kg/ha
Israel
Lowest
425.2 kg/ha
Zambia
Median
1,517 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,534

What the numbers show

Sunflower seed — Yield is currently reported for 83 countries. The highest value is 3,273 kg/ha in Israel; the lowest is 425.2 kg/ha in Zambia.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,517 kg/ha, and the mean is 1,648 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 8.

Over the past decade 48 countries rose and 33 fell. The largest increase was in Sudan (former) (up 276.2%), and the largest decrease in Israel (down 54.1%).

Sunflower seed — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Israel 3,273 kg/ha 2024 down 54.1% volatile
1 Türkiye 2,260 kg/ha 2024 down 9.8% rising
2 Egypt 3,085 kg/ha 2024 down 1.9% rising
3 China 3,010 kg/ha 2024 up 14.6% rising
3 China, mainland 3,010 kg/ha 2024 up 14.6% rising
3 Republic of Moldova 1,485 kg/ha 2024 down 16.0% rising
4 Syrian Arab Republic 1,460 kg/ha 2024 up 21.7% rising
5 Croatia 2,970 kg/ha 2024 up 4.1% rising
5 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,395 kg/ha 2024 up 36.3% flat
6 Azerbaijan 2,697 kg/ha 2024 up 59.1% rising
6 United Republic of Tanzania 1,091 kg/ha 2024 up 11.8% rising
7 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,680 kg/ha 2024 up 78.7% volatile
7 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,048 kg/ha 2024 up 62.6% rising
8 Hungary 2,669 kg/ha 2024 down 0.8% rising
9 Germany 2,611 kg/ha 2024 up 13.5% falling
9 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 796.7 kg/ha 2024 up 1.6% falling
10 Italy 2,606 kg/ha 2024 up 15.9% rising
11 Tajikistan 2,600 kg/ha 2024 up 14.7% volatile
12 Slovakia 2,526 kg/ha 2024 down 3.6% rising
13 Czechia 2,504 kg/ha 2024 up 10.1% rising
14 Serbia 2,504 kg/ha 2024 down 13.8% rising
15 Luxembourg 2,393 kg/ha 2024 — rising
16 Iraq 2,384 kg/ha 2024 up 10.6% rising
17 Austria 2,383 kg/ha 2024 down 15.2% rising
18 Poland 2,343 kg/ha 2024 up 37.1% rising
19 Uzbekistan 2,289 kg/ha 2024 down 5.0% volatile
20 Switzerland 2,182 kg/ha 2024 down 11.3% falling
21 Ukraine 2,179 kg/ha 2024 up 12.1% rising
22 Albania 2,163 kg/ha 2024 down 25.8% rising
23 Lebanon 2,155 kg/ha 2001 up 24.9% volatile
24 Greece 2,145 kg/ha 2024 down 14.8% rising
25 Canada 2,129 kg/ha 2024 up 12.7% rising
26 Argentina 2,114 kg/ha 2024 up 29.2% rising
27 Slovenia 2,105 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
28 Yugoslav SFR 2,100 kg/ha 1991 up 25.6% rising
29 Portugal 2,066 kg/ha 2024 up 95.6% volatile
30 France 1,963 kg/ha 2024 down 18.5% rising
31 Morocco 1,934 kg/ha 2024 up 47.7% rising
32 Czechoslovakia 1,855 kg/ha 1992 up 11.3% rising
33 Ecuador 1,789 kg/ha 2024 up 1.1% rising
34 Serbia and Montenegro 1,773 kg/ha 2005 up 1.8% rising
35 Bulgaria 1,770 kg/ha 2024 down 25.7% rising
36 Russian Federation 1,746 kg/ha 2024 up 32.8% rising
37 South Sudan 1,745 kg/ha 2024 up 11.7% flat
38 Paraguay 1,674 kg/ha 2024 down 7.0% rising
39 Belarus 1,667 kg/ha 2024 up 74.6% falling
40 Pakistan 1,572 kg/ha 2024 up 24.3% rising
41 Australia 1,517 kg/ha 2024 up 42.5% rising
41 Australia and New Zealand 1,517 kg/ha 2024 up 42.5% rising
43 Brazil 1,511 kg/ha 2024 up 10.2% rising
44 Kazakhstan 1,460 kg/ha 2024 up 118.8% rising
45 Sudan (former) 1,433 kg/ha 2011 up 276.2% volatile
46 Kyrgyzstan 1,364 kg/ha 2024 up 19.9% rising
47 Uruguay 1,250 kg/ha 2024 up 12.5% rising
48 USSR 1,225 kg/ha 1991 up 11.1% rising
49 Chile 1,217 kg/ha 2024 down 22.6% rising
50 Romania 1,213 kg/ha 2024 down 44.7% rising
51 South Africa 1,195 kg/ha 2024 down 14.0% rising
52 India 1,125 kg/ha 2024 up 48.6% rising
53 Ethiopia 1,122 kg/ha 2024 up 1.0% rising
54 Spain 1,102 kg/ha 2024 down 9.4% rising
55 Malawi 1,100 kg/ha 2024 up 7.4% rising
56 North Macedonia 1,098 kg/ha 2024 down 39.5% rising
57 Namibia 1,095 kg/ha 2024 down 4.2% rising
58 Colombia 1,089 kg/ha 1993 down 18.3% falling
59 Uganda 1,018 kg/ha 2024 up 2.8% rising
60 Afghanistan 1,012 kg/ha 2024 down 45.9% falling
61 Kenya 1,000 kg/ha 2024 unchanged falling
61 China, Taiwan Province of 1,000 kg/ha 1996 down 37.1% falling
63 Palestine 955.8 kg/ha 2022 down 1.6% falling
64 Mexico 918 kg/ha 2024 down 18.3% rising
65 Myanmar 869.6 kg/ha 2024 down 8.3% rising
66 Tunisia 858.5 kg/ha 2024 down 0.2% rising
67 Georgia 812.5 kg/ha 2024 up 11.7% rising
68 Thailand 806.5 kg/ha 2024 down 32.4% rising
69 Angola 711.3 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% falling
70 Bhutan 550 kg/ha 2024 down 42.6% rising
71 Botswana 518.2 kg/ha 2024 up 82.6% volatile
72 Zimbabwe 466.8 kg/ha 2024 up 5.7% falling
73 Algeria 450.7 kg/ha 2024 up 1.4% rising
74 Sudan 448.4 kg/ha 2024 down 46.5% falling
75 Mozambique 436.8 kg/ha 2024 down 38.0% rising
76 Zambia 425.2 kg/ha 2024 down 21.7% rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Sunflower seed — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
111 places, 5,534 data points, 1961–2024
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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.