Sunflower seed — Yield in Brazil
Brazil: Sunflower seed — Yield was 1,511 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in Brazil, 1968–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sunflower seed — yield in Brazil is 1,511 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 6.7% on the previous year and up 10.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Brazil peaked at 1,731 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 460 kg/ha, in 1980.
That places Brazil 43rd 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 57 years of available data.
Sunflower seed — Yield in Brazil, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 666.7 kg/ha | — |
| 1969 | 714.3 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1970 | 833.3 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1971 | 882.4 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1972 | 909.1 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1973 | 842.1 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 1974 | 833.3 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1975 | 750 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1976 | 750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 750 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 833.3 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1979 | 1,000 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1980 | 460 kg/ha | -54.0% |
| 1981 | 816.3 kg/ha | +77.5% |
| 1982 | 738.1 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 1983 | 687.5 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1984 | 733.3 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1985 | 814.8 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1986 | 1,000 kg/ha | +22.7% |
| 1987 | 1,083 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1988 | 1,227 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 1989 | 1,304 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1990 | 1,591 kg/ha | +22.0% |
| 1991 | 1,667 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1992 | 1,429 kg/ha | -14.3% |
| 1993 | 1,429 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 1,200 kg/ha | -16.0% |
| 1995 | 750 kg/ha | -37.5% |
| 1996 | 1,158 kg/ha | +54.4% |
| 1997 | 1,300 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1998 | 1,273 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1999 | 1,580 kg/ha | +24.1% |
| 2000 | 1,672 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2001 | 1,340 kg/ha | -19.9% |
| 2002 | 1,302 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2003 | 1,481 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 2004 | 1,333 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 2005 | 1,362 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2006 | 1,288 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2007 | 1,446 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 2008 | 1,297 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 2009 | 1,242 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2010 | 1,132 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 2011 | 1,246 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2012 | 1,587 kg/ha | +27.3% |
| 2013 | 1,576 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2014 | 1,372 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 2015 | 1,386 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2016 | 1,319 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2017 | 1,731 kg/ha | +31.2% |
| 2018 | 1,606 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 2019 | 1,630 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2020 | 1,624 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2021 | 1,548 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2022 | 1,630 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2023 | 1,619 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2024 | 1,511 kg/ha | -6.7% |
Brazil compared with similar countries
- Brazil's 1,511 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1,667 kg/ha, 91% of the median. (21 countries reporting)
- Brazil's 1,511 kg/ha is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 1,381 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (8 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sunflower seed — Yield in Brazil 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | +77.5% | 460 kg/ha | 816.3 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 690.5 kg/ha | 666.7 kg/ha | 714.3 kg/ha | 2 |
| 1970s | 838.35 kg/ha | 750 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 886.49 kg/ha | 460 kg/ha | 1,304 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,338 kg/ha | 750 kg/ha | 1,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,376 kg/ha | 1,242 kg/ha | 1,672 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,459 kg/ha | 1,132 kg/ha | 1,731 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,587 kg/ha | 1,511 kg/ha | 1,630 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Brazil
- 40 Pakistan 1,572 kg/ha compare
- 41 Australia 1,517 kg/ha compare
- 41 Australia and New Zealand 1,517 kg/ha compare
- 44 Kazakhstan 1,460 kg/ha compare
- 45 Sudan (former) 1,433 kg/ha compare
- 46 Kyrgyzstan 1,364 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Brazil
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.36 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0609 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 652.04 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.95 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1182 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Brazil?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Brazil was 1,511 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 1,731 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 460 kg/ha in 1980.
- How does Brazil rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Brazil ranks 43rd out of 76 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Brazil 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.