Sunflower seed — Yield in Greece
Greece: Sunflower seed — Yield was 2,145 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in Greece, 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 Greece is 2,145 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and down 14.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Greece peaked at 2,968 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 502.7 kg/ha, in 1971.
That places Greece 24th 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 Greece, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 851.7 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 852.9 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1963 | 937.4 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1964 | 1,023 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1965 | 921.9 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 1966 | 1,065 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 1967 | 1,052 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1968 | 1,058 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1969 | 1,065 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1970 | 1,020 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1971 | 502.7 kg/ha | -50.7% |
| 1972 | 1,085 kg/ha | +115.8% |
| 1973 | 1,100 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1974 | 1,143 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1975 | 1,340 kg/ha | +17.2% |
| 1976 | 1,330 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1977 | 1,549 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 1978 | 1,267 kg/ha | -18.2% |
| 1979 | 1,711 kg/ha | +35.0% |
| 1980 | 1,497 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 1981 | 1,401 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1982 | 1,465 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1983 | 2,030 kg/ha | +38.5% |
| 1984 | 1,581 kg/ha | -22.1% |
| 1985 | 1,657 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1986 | 2,066 kg/ha | +24.7% |
| 1987 | 1,592 kg/ha | -23.0% |
| 1988 | 1,786 kg/ha | +12.2% |
| 1989 | 2,160 kg/ha | +21.0% |
| 1990 | 1,504 kg/ha | -30.4% |
| 1991 | 1,631 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1992 | 1,816 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1993 | 1,562 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 1994 | 1,547 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1995 | 1,595 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1996 | 1,531 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1997 | 1,369 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1998 | 1,541 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 1999 | 1,378 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 2000 | 1,334 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2001 | 1,342 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2002 | 1,420 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2003 | 1,532 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 2004 | 1,610 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2005 | 1,779 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 2006 | 1,752 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2007 | 1,589 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2008 | 1,717 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2009 | 1,968 kg/ha | +14.7% |
| 2010 | 2,170 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2011 | 2,136 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2012 | 2,237 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2013 | 2,380 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2014 | 2,517 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2015 | 2,122 kg/ha | -15.7% |
| 2016 | 2,438 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 2017 | 2,705 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 2018 | 2,800 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2019 | 2,968 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2020 | 2,504 kg/ha | -15.6% |
| 2021 | 2,537 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2022 | 2,459 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2023 | 2,138 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 2024 | 2,145 kg/ha | +0.3% |
Greece compared with similar countries
- Greece's 2,145 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 2,163 kg/ha, 99% of the median. (22 countries reporting)
- Greece's 2,145 kg/ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 2,182 kg/ha, 98% of the median. (29 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sunflower seed — Yield in Greece 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | +115.8% | 502.7 kg/ha | 1,085 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 980.84 kg/ha | 851.7 kg/ha | 1,065 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,205 kg/ha | 502.7 kg/ha | 1,711 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,723 kg/ha | 1,401 kg/ha | 2,160 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,547 kg/ha | 1,369 kg/ha | 1,816 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,604 kg/ha | 1,334 kg/ha | 1,968 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,447 kg/ha | 2,122 kg/ha | 2,968 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,357 kg/ha | 2,138 kg/ha | 2,537 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Greece
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.84 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0357 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 962.12 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2078 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Greece?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Greece was 2,145 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Greece?
- The highest recorded value was 2,968 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 502.7 kg/ha in 1971.
- How does Greece rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Greece ranks 24th out of 76 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Greece?
- Over the last ten years it is down 14.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greece 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.