Sunflower seed — Yield in Americas
Americas: Sunflower seed — Yield was 2,004 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sunflower seed — yield in Americas stood at 2,004 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.6% on the previous year and up 27.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Americas peaked at 2,004 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 636.9 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Americas 5th out of 29 groups with data for 2024, putting it 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 | 778.77 kg/ha | 636.9 kg/ha | 937 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 915.35 kg/ha | 750.7 kg/ha | 1,253 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,239 kg/ha | 991.3 kg/ha | 1,373 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,589 kg/ha | 1,329 kg/ha | 1,744 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,599 kg/ha | 1,412 kg/ha | 1,763 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,811 kg/ha | 1,512 kg/ha | 1,999 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,966 kg/ha | 1,884 kg/ha | 2,004 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 2 Egypt 3,085 kg/ha compare
- 3 China 3,010 kg/ha compare
- 3 China, mainland 3,010 kg/ha compare
- 5 Croatia 2,970 kg/ha compare
- 6 Azerbaijan 2,697 kg/ha compare
- 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,680 kg/ha compare
- 8 Hungary 2,669 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Tomatoes — Production 25.19 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 32.73 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.37 million ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.02 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532,819 ha (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 267.48 million An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 25.17 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 94 kg/An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 63,435 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 397,122 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Americas?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Americas was 2,004 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 2,004 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 636.9 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Americas rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Americas ranks 5th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas 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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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.