Sunflower seed — Yield in World
World: Sunflower seed — Yield was 1,818 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sunflower seed — Yield in World, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
World recorded 1,818 kg/ha for sunflower seed — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 7.4% on the previous year and up 9.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in World peaked at 2,058 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 969.6 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places World 11th out of 29 groups 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,135 kg/ha | 969.6 kg/ha | 1,277 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,154 kg/ha | 1,068 kg/ha | 1,262 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,265 kg/ha | 1,099 kg/ha | 1,408 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,230 kg/ha | 1,068 kg/ha | 1,346 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,269 kg/ha | 1,156 kg/ha | 1,441 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,708 kg/ha | 1,354 kg/ha | 2,058 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,882 kg/ha | 1,818 kg/ha | 1,969 kg/ha | 5 |
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- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 42.2% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 3.46 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.75 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 139.41 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 5.88 million ha (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in World?
- Sunflower seed — yield in World was 1,818 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in World?
- The highest recorded value was 2,058 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in World?
- The lowest recorded value was 969.6 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does World rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- World ranks 11th out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in World?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this World 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.