Sunflower seed — Yield in Chile
Chile: Sunflower seed — Yield was 1,217 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in Chile, 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 Chile is 1,217 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.6% on the previous year and down 22.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Chile peaked at 2,611 kg/ha in 2010 and was at its lowest, 639.9 kg/ha, in 1996.
That places Chile 49th 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 Chile, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,024 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,064 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1963 | 1,234 kg/ha | +16.1% |
| 1964 | 1,069 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1965 | 1,414 kg/ha | +32.3% |
| 1966 | 1,330 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1967 | 1,487 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 1968 | 1,485 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1969 | 1,145 kg/ha | -22.9% |
| 1970 | 1,392 kg/ha | +21.6% |
| 1971 | 1,330 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1972 | 1,347 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1973 | 1,130 kg/ha | -16.1% |
| 1974 | 1,239 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 1975 | 1,340 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1976 | 1,253 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1977 | 1,482 kg/ha | +18.3% |
| 1978 | 1,439 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1979 | 1,536 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1980 | 1,180 kg/ha | -23.2% |
| 1981 | 1,453 kg/ha | +23.1% |
| 1982 | 1,576 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1983 | 1,598 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1984 | 1,514 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1985 | 1,628 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1986 | 1,808 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1987 | 2,105 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 1988 | 2,105 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 2,124 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1990 | 2,312 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1991 | 2,393 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1992 | 2,219 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1993 | 2,031 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1994 | 1,007 kg/ha | -50.4% |
| 1995 | 1,205 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 1996 | 639.9 kg/ha | -46.9% |
| 1997 | 1,140 kg/ha | +78.2% |
| 1998 | 1,300 kg/ha | +14.0% |
| 1999 | 1,455 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 2000 | 1,485 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2001 | 1,739 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 2002 | 1,400 kg/ha | -19.5% |
| 2003 | 1,400 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2004 | 1,463 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2005 | 1,569 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2006 | 1,986 kg/ha | +26.6% |
| 2007 | 2,012 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2008 | 2,107 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2009 | 2,298 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 2010 | 2,611 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 2011 | 1,272 kg/ha | -51.3% |
| 2012 | 1,380 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2013 | 2,035 kg/ha | +47.5% |
| 2014 | 1,572 kg/ha | -22.8% |
| 2015 | 1,412 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 2016 | 1,058 kg/ha | -25.1% |
| 2017 | 1,579 kg/ha | +49.3% |
| 2018 | 1,288 kg/ha | -18.4% |
| 2019 | 1,301 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2020 | 944.9 kg/ha | -27.4% |
| 2021 | 936.3 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2022 | 1,114 kg/ha | +18.9% |
| 2023 | 1,249 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 2024 | 1,217 kg/ha | -2.6% |
Chile compared with similar countries
- Chile's 1,217 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 2,163 kg/ha, 56% of the median. (22 countries reporting)
- Chile's 1,217 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 1,381 kg/ha, 88% of the median. (8 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,250 kg/ha | 1,024 kg/ha | 1,487 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,349 kg/ha | 1,130 kg/ha | 1,536 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,709 kg/ha | 1,180 kg/ha | 2,124 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,570 kg/ha | 639.9 kg/ha | 2,393 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,746 kg/ha | 1,400 kg/ha | 2,298 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,551 kg/ha | 1,058 kg/ha | 2,611 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,092 kg/ha | 936.3 kg/ha | 1,249 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Chile
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.03 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0345 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 621.34 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.18 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1082 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 4.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Chile?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Chile was 1,217 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Chile?
- The highest recorded value was 2,611 kg/ha in 2010.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Chile?
- The lowest recorded value was 639.9 kg/ha in 1996.
- How does Chile rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Chile ranks 49th out of 76 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Chile?
- Over the last ten years it is down 22.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Chile 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.