Sunflower seed — Yield in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Sunflower seed — Yield was 466.8 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sunflower seed — Yield in Zimbabwe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, sunflower seed — yield in Zimbabwe stood at 466.8 kg/ha.
That represents a change of up 4.3% on the previous year and up 5.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sunflower seed — yield in Zimbabwe peaked at 1,110 kg/ha in 1978 and was at its lowest, 192 kg/ha, in 2002.
Zimbabwe ranks 78th of 82 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 567.01 kg/ha | 408.2 kg/ha | 714.4 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 764.98 kg/ha | 510.2 kg/ha | 1,110 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 498.16 kg/ha | 252.1 kg/ha | 761.3 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 426.96 kg/ha | 280.4 kg/ha | 556.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 469.46 kg/ha | 192 kg/ha | 792.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 430.28 kg/ha | 314.8 kg/ha | 631.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 483.86 kg/ha | 369.1 kg/ha | 609 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Zimbabwe
- Agriculture share gdp 9.47 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.47 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
- Rural population 59.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 10.09 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.85 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 325,400 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sunflower seed — yield in Zimbabwe?
- Sunflower seed — yield in Zimbabwe was 466.8 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 1,110 kg/ha in 1978.
- What is the lowest sunflower seed — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 192 kg/ha in 2002.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for sunflower seed — yield?
- Zimbabwe ranks 78th out of 82 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sunflower seed — yield rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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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About this data
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.