Sunflower seed — Yield in Egypt
Egypt: Sunflower seed — Yield was 3,085 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in Egypt, 1971–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sunflower seed — yield in Egypt stood at 3,085 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 7.3% on the previous year and down 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Egypt peaked at 3,841 kg/ha in 2000 and was at its lowest, 361.9 kg/ha, in 1971.
That places Egypt 2nd out of 82 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 54 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,228 kg/ha | 361.9 kg/ha | 1,829 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1980s | 1,884 kg/ha | 1,667 kg/ha | 2,143 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,211 kg/ha | 1,984 kg/ha | 2,377 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,524 kg/ha | 2,258 kg/ha | 3,841 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,866 kg/ha | 2,508 kg/ha | 3,375 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,809 kg/ha | 2,407 kg/ha | 3,327 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Egypt
- Agriculture share gdp 16.55 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.55 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.1% (2024)
- Rural population 57.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 67.58 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.6% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 60.46 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.25 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Egypt?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Egypt was 3,085 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 3,841 kg/ha in 2000.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 361.9 kg/ha in 1971.
- How does Egypt rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Egypt ranks 2nd out of 82 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt 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.