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
82
Highest
3,273 kg/ha
Israel
Lowest
425.2 kg/ha
Zambia
Median
1,545 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
5,534

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 LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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.

About this data

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.