Sunflower seed — Yield in Central America
Central America: Sunflower seed — Yield was 918 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in Central America, 1971–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sunflower seed — yield in Central America is 918 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 20.2% on the previous year and down 18.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Central America peaked at 3,638 kg/ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 129.1 kg/ha, in 1990.
That places Central America 23rd out of 25 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 54 years of available data.
Sunflower seed — Yield in Central America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 528.5 kg/ha | — |
| 1972 | 923.3 kg/ha | +74.7% |
| 1973 | 818.5 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1974 | 1,302 kg/ha | +59.1% |
| 1975 | 1,316 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1976 | 748.9 kg/ha | -43.1% |
| 1977 | 663.6 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1978 | 619 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1979 | 1,001 kg/ha | +61.7% |
| 1980 | 1,029 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1981 | 1,802 kg/ha | +75.1% |
| 1982 | 622 kg/ha | -65.5% |
| 1983 | 713.2 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 1984 | 644.2 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1985 | 1,310 kg/ha | +103.4% |
| 1986 | 559.4 kg/ha | -57.3% |
| 1987 | 838.3 kg/ha | +49.9% |
| 1988 | 724.2 kg/ha | -13.6% |
| 1989 | 491.1 kg/ha | -32.2% |
| 1990 | 129.1 kg/ha | -73.7% |
| 1991 | 826.9 kg/ha | +540.5% |
| 1992 | 761.9 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1993 | 832.6 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1994 | 1,762 kg/ha | +111.7% |
| 1995 | 1,774 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1996 | 898.3 kg/ha | -49.4% |
| 1997 | 1,016 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 1998 | 760.2 kg/ha | -25.2% |
| 1999 | 1,154 kg/ha | +51.8% |
| 2000 | 700 kg/ha | -39.4% |
| 2001 | 3,638 kg/ha | +419.7% |
| 2002 | 1,179 kg/ha | -67.6% |
| 2003 | 1,250 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2004 | 2,578 kg/ha | +106.2% |
| 2005 | 1,409 kg/ha | -45.3% |
| 2006 | 1,017 kg/ha | -27.8% |
| 2007 | 2,333 kg/ha | +129.4% |
| 2008 | 1,250 kg/ha | -46.4% |
| 2009 | 1,537 kg/ha | +23.0% |
| 2010 | 2,022 kg/ha | +31.5% |
| 2011 | 1,528 kg/ha | -24.4% |
| 2012 | 1,022 kg/ha | -33.1% |
| 2013 | 1,259 kg/ha | +23.2% |
| 2014 | 1,124 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 2015 | 938.9 kg/ha | -16.5% |
| 2016 | 1,051 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 2017 | 1,251 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 2018 | 1,428 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 2019 | 1,768 kg/ha | +23.8% |
| 2020 | 1,297 kg/ha | -26.6% |
| 2021 | 1,346 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2022 | 1,834 kg/ha | +36.3% |
| 2023 | 1,150 kg/ha | -37.3% |
| 2024 | 918 kg/ha | -20.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sunflower seed — Yield in Central America 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | +540.5% | 129.1 kg/ha | 826.9 kg/ha |
| 2001 | +419.7% | 700 kg/ha | 3,638 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 880.08 kg/ha | 528.5 kg/ha | 1,316 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1980s | 873.32 kg/ha | 491.1 kg/ha | 1,802 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 991.58 kg/ha | 129.1 kg/ha | 1,774 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,689 kg/ha | 700 kg/ha | 3,638 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,339 kg/ha | 938.9 kg/ha | 2,022 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,309 kg/ha | 918 kg/ha | 1,834 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Central America?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Central America was 918 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Central America?
- The highest recorded value was 3,638 kg/ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Central America?
- The lowest recorded value was 129.1 kg/ha in 1990.
- How does Central America rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Central America ranks 23rd out of 25 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Central America?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Central America 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.