Sunflower seed — Yield in Albania
Albania: Sunflower seed — Yield was 2,163 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in Albania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sunflower seed — yield in Albania is 2,163 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 8.2% on the previous year and down 25.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Albania peaked at 2,916 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 407.6 kg/ha, in 1992.
Albania ranks 22nd of 76 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sunflower seed — Yield in Albania, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,000 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,051 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1964 | 1,034 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1965 | 914.2 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1966 | 1,265 kg/ha | +38.4% |
| 1967 | 1,086 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 1968 | 990.4 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1969 | 902.2 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1970 | 1,065 kg/ha | +18.0% |
| 1971 | 895 kg/ha | -15.9% |
| 1972 | 636.4 kg/ha | -28.9% |
| 1973 | 795 kg/ha | +24.9% |
| 1974 | 1,000 kg/ha | +25.8% |
| 1975 | 1,235 kg/ha | +23.5% |
| 1976 | 1,308 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1977 | 1,346 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1978 | 1,385 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1979 | 1,436 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1980 | 1,090 kg/ha | -24.1% |
| 1981 | 1,117 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1982 | 1,086 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1983 | 1,559 kg/ha | +43.5% |
| 1984 | 1,500 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1985 | 1,075 kg/ha | -28.4% |
| 1986 | 1,161 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1987 | 903.8 kg/ha | -22.1% |
| 1988 | 691.1 kg/ha | -23.5% |
| 1989 | 1,100 kg/ha | +59.2% |
| 1990 | 809.5 kg/ha | -26.4% |
| 1991 | 553.4 kg/ha | -31.6% |
| 1992 | 407.6 kg/ha | -26.3% |
| 1993 | 806.7 kg/ha | +97.9% |
| 1994 | 811 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1995 | 1,344 kg/ha | +65.7% |
| 1996 | 1,328 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1997 | 1,486 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 1998 | 1,601 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1999 | 1,688 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2000 | 1,526 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 2001 | 1,500 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2002 | 1,529 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2003 | 919.8 kg/ha | -39.9% |
| 2004 | 785.7 kg/ha | -14.6% |
| 2005 | 1,818 kg/ha | +131.4% |
| 2006 | 1,692 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2007 | 1,143 kg/ha | -32.5% |
| 2008 | 1,571 kg/ha | +37.5% |
| 2009 | 1,917 kg/ha | +22.0% |
| 2010 | 2,000 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2011 | 2,055 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2012 | 1,429 kg/ha | -30.5% |
| 2013 | 1,500 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 2014 | 2,916 kg/ha | +94.4% |
| 2015 | 2,857 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2016 | 2,900 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2017 | 2,225 kg/ha | -23.3% |
| 2018 | 2,280 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2019 | 2,308 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 2,323 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2021 | 2,379 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2022 | 2,369 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2023 | 2,355 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2024 | 2,163 kg/ha | -8.2% |
Albania compared with similar countries
- Albania's 2,163 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1,667 kg/ha, 1.3× the median. (21 countries reporting)
- Albania's 2,163 kg/ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 2,182 kg/ha, 99% of the median. (29 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sunflower seed — Yield in Albania 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | +131.4% | 785.7 kg/ha | 1,818 kg/ha |
| 1993 | +97.9% | 407.6 kg/ha | 806.7 kg/ha |
| 2014 | +94.4% | 1,500 kg/ha | 2,916 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,027 kg/ha | 902.2 kg/ha | 1,265 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,110 kg/ha | 636.4 kg/ha | 1,436 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,128 kg/ha | 691.1 kg/ha | 1,559 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,084 kg/ha | 407.6 kg/ha | 1,688 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,440 kg/ha | 785.7 kg/ha | 1,917 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,247 kg/ha | 1,429 kg/ha | 2,916 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,318 kg/ha | 2,163 kg/ha | 2,379 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Albania
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.17 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.148 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,923 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.93 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4113 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 14.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 14.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Albania?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Albania was 2,163 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Albania?
- The highest recorded value was 2,916 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Albania?
- The lowest recorded value was 407.6 kg/ha in 1992.
- How does Albania rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Albania ranks 22nd out of 76 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Albania?
- Over the last ten years it is down 25.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Albania data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sunflower 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.