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...
What the numbers show
Sunflower seed — Yield is currently reported for 82 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 1,545 kg/ha, and the mean is 1,654 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 32 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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Israel | 3,273 kg/ha | 2024 | down 54.1% | volatile |
| 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 |
| 5 | Croatia | 2,970 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 6 | Azerbaijan | 2,697 kg/ha | 2024 | up 59.1% | rising |
| 7 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2,680 kg/ha | 2024 | up 78.7% | volatile |
| 8 | Hungary | 2,669 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.8% | rising |
| 9 | Germany | 2,611 kg/ha | 2024 | up 13.5% | 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 | Türkiye | 2,260 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.8% | rising |
| 21 | Switzerland | 2,182 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.3% | falling |
| 22 | Ukraine | 2,179 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 23 | Albania | 2,163 kg/ha | 2024 | down 25.8% | rising |
| 24 | Lebanon | 2,155 kg/ha | 2001 | up 24.9% | volatile |
| 25 | Greece | 2,145 kg/ha | 2024 | down 14.8% | rising |
| 26 | Canada | 2,129 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.7% | rising |
| 27 | Argentina | 2,114 kg/ha | 2024 | up 29.2% | rising |
| 28 | Slovenia | 2,105 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 29 | Yugoslav SFR | 2,100 kg/ha | 1991 | up 25.6% | rising |
| 30 | Portugal | 2,066 kg/ha | 2024 | up 95.6% | volatile |
| 31 | France | 1,963 kg/ha | 2024 | down 18.5% | rising |
| 32 | Morocco | 1,934 kg/ha | 2024 | up 47.7% | rising |
| 33 | Czechoslovakia | 1,855 kg/ha | 1992 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 34 | Ecuador | 1,789 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 35 | Serbia and Montenegro | 1,773 kg/ha | 2005 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 36 | Bulgaria | 1,770 kg/ha | 2024 | down 25.7% | rising |
| 37 | Russian Federation | 1,746 kg/ha | 2024 | up 32.8% | rising |
| 38 | South Sudan | 1,745 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.7% | flat |
| 39 | Paraguay | 1,674 kg/ha | 2024 | down 7.0% | rising |
| 40 | Belarus | 1,667 kg/ha | 2024 | up 74.6% | falling |
| 41 | Pakistan | 1,572 kg/ha | 2024 | up 24.3% | rising |
| 42 | Australia | 1,517 kg/ha | 2024 | up 42.5% | rising |
| 42 | Australia and New Zealand | 1,517 kg/ha | 2024 | up 42.5% | rising |
| 44 | Brazil | 1,511 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.2% | rising |
| 45 | Republic of Moldova | 1,485 kg/ha | 2024 | down 16.0% | rising |
| 46 | Kazakhstan | 1,460 kg/ha | 2024 | up 118.8% | rising |
| 46 | Syrian Arab Republic | 1,460 kg/ha | 2024 | up 21.7% | rising |
| 48 | Sudan (former) | 1,433 kg/ha | 2011 | up 276.2% | volatile |
| 49 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 1,395 kg/ha | 2024 | up 36.3% | flat |
| 50 | Kyrgyzstan | 1,364 kg/ha | 2024 | up 19.9% | rising |
| 51 | Uruguay | 1,250 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.5% | rising |
| 52 | USSR | 1,225 kg/ha | 1991 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 53 | Chile | 1,217 kg/ha | 2024 | down 22.6% | rising |
| 54 | Romania | 1,213 kg/ha | 2024 | down 44.7% | rising |
| 55 | India | 1,125 kg/ha | 2024 | up 48.6% | rising |
| 56 | Ethiopia | 1,122 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 57 | Spain | 1,102 kg/ha | 2024 | down 9.4% | rising |
| 58 | Malawi | 1,100 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 59 | North Macedonia | 1,098 kg/ha | 2024 | down 39.5% | rising |
| 60 | Namibia | 1,095 kg/ha | 2024 | down 4.2% | rising |
| 61 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1,091 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 62 | Colombia | 1,089 kg/ha | 1993 | down 18.3% | falling |
| 63 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 1,048 kg/ha | 2024 | up 62.6% | rising |
| 64 | Uganda | 1,018 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 65 | Afghanistan | 1,012 kg/ha | 2024 | down 45.9% | falling |
| 66 | Kenya | 1,000 kg/ha | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 66 | China, Taiwan Province of | 1,000 kg/ha | 1996 | down 37.1% | falling |
| 68 | Palestine | 955.8 kg/ha | 2022 | down 1.6% | falling |
| 69 | Mexico | 918 kg/ha | 2024 | down 18.3% | rising |
| 70 | Myanmar | 869.6 kg/ha | 2024 | down 8.3% | rising |
| 71 | Tunisia | 858.5 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.2% | rising |
| 72 | Georgia | 812.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.7% | rising |
| 73 | Thailand | 806.5 kg/ha | 2024 | down 32.4% | rising |
| 74 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 796.7 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.6% | falling |
| 75 | Angola | 711.3 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 76 | Bhutan | 550 kg/ha | 2024 | down 42.6% | rising |
| 77 | Botswana | 518.2 kg/ha | 2024 | up 82.6% | volatile |
| 78 | Zimbabwe | 466.8 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.7% | falling |
| 79 | Algeria | 450.7 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 80 | Sudan | 448.4 kg/ha | 2024 | down 46.5% | falling |
| 81 | Mozambique | 436.8 kg/ha | 2024 | down 38.0% | rising |
| 82 | 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.
- Eastern Asia 3,010 kg/ha
- Western Asia 2,258 kg/ha
- South America 2,023 kg/ha
- Western Europe 2,015 kg/ha
- Americas 2,004 kg/ha
- Asia 1,957 kg/ha
- Northern America 1,892 kg/ha
- United States of America 1,872 kg/ha
- Eastern Europe 1,862 kg/ha
- Europe 1,857 kg/ha
- World 1,818 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 1,745 kg/ha
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.