Sunflower seed — Yield in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Sunflower seed — Yield was 1,517 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, 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 Australia and New Zealand is 1,517 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 2.9% on the previous year and up 42.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 1,541 kg/ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 422.1 kg/ha, in 1973.
That places Australia and New Zealand 41st out of 76 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 731.8 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 666.1 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1963 | 677.4 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1964 | 585.3 kg/ha | -13.6% |
| 1965 | 635.4 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1966 | 652.6 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1967 | 494.6 kg/ha | -24.2% |
| 1968 | 528.1 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1969 | 458 kg/ha | -13.3% |
| 1970 | 509.9 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1971 | 778.6 kg/ha | +52.7% |
| 1972 | 500.1 kg/ha | -35.8% |
| 1973 | 422.1 kg/ha | -15.6% |
| 1974 | 560 kg/ha | +32.7% |
| 1975 | 541.2 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1976 | 587.7 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1977 | 556.2 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1978 | 717.9 kg/ha | +29.1% |
| 1979 | 714.3 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1980 | 640.7 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1981 | 703.1 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1982 | 648.4 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1983 | 590.9 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1984 | 729.6 kg/ha | +23.5% |
| 1985 | 827.7 kg/ha | +13.4% |
| 1986 | 776.6 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1987 | 713.1 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1988 | 1,079 kg/ha | +51.3% |
| 1989 | 928.7 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 1990 | 1,102 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 1991 | 910.4 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 1992 | 1,068 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 1993 | 835.2 kg/ha | -21.8% |
| 1994 | 929.1 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1995 | 823.8 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1996 | 831.1 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1997 | 1,030 kg/ha | +24.0% |
| 1998 | 1,061 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1999 | 1,248 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 2000 | 1,049 kg/ha | -15.9% |
| 2001 | 941.3 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 2002 | 883.7 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 2003 | 541.8 kg/ha | -38.7% |
| 2004 | 782.5 kg/ha | +44.4% |
| 2005 | 1,271 kg/ha | +62.5% |
| 2006 | 1,058 kg/ha | -16.8% |
| 2007 | 829.6 kg/ha | -21.6% |
| 2008 | 1,508 kg/ha | +81.8% |
| 2009 | 1,069 kg/ha | -29.2% |
| 2010 | 1,541 kg/ha | +44.2% |
| 2011 | 1,144 kg/ha | -25.8% |
| 2012 | 1,169 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2013 | 1,462 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 2014 | 1,064 kg/ha | -27.2% |
| 2015 | 1,182 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 2016 | 840.9 kg/ha | -28.8% |
| 2017 | 1,056 kg/ha | +25.5% |
| 2018 | 951.7 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 2019 | 841.8 kg/ha | -11.5% |
| 2020 | 1,284 kg/ha | +52.6% |
| 2021 | 1,404 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2022 | 1,536 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2023 | 1,475 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2024 | 1,517 kg/ha | +2.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 603.26 kg/ha | 458 kg/ha | 731.8 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 588.8 kg/ha | 422.1 kg/ha | 778.6 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 763.79 kg/ha | 590.9 kg/ha | 1,079 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 983.83 kg/ha | 823.8 kg/ha | 1,248 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 993.42 kg/ha | 541.8 kg/ha | 1,508 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,125 kg/ha | 840.9 kg/ha | 1,541 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,443 kg/ha | 1,284 kg/ha | 1,536 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Australia and New Zealand?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Australia and New Zealand was 1,517 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 1,541 kg/ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 422.1 kg/ha in 1973.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 41st out of 76 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 42.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand 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.