Watermelons — Yield in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Watermelons — Yield was 25,731 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Watermelons — Yield in Saudi Arabia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Saudi Arabia recorded 25,731 kg/ha for watermelons — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 0.8% on the previous year and up 27.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — yield in Saudi Arabia peaked at 49,850 kg/ha in 1971 and was at its lowest, 11,957 kg/ha, in 1974.
That places Saudi Arabia 54th out of 131 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15,208 kg/ha | 14,375 kg/ha | 16,250 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 23,732 kg/ha | 11,957 kg/ha | 49,850 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 19,852 kg/ha | 14,829 kg/ha | 25,084 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 18,019 kg/ha | 16,880 kg/ha | 19,134 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 19,088 kg/ha | 16,292 kg/ha | 20,756 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 20,509 kg/ha | 19,330 kg/ha | 22,198 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 25,024 kg/ha | 22,268 kg/ha | 26,090 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Saudi Arabia
- 51 North Macedonia 26,999 kg/ha compare
- 52 French Polynesia 26,656 kg/ha compare
- 53 Kazakhstan 26,182 kg/ha compare
- 55 Bosnia and Herzegovina 25,721 kg/ha compare
- 56 Cabo Verde 25,714 kg/ha compare
- 57 Viet Nam 25,663 kg/ha compare
More environment data for Saudi Arabia
- Standard Deviation 0.424 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.58 °C (2025)
- Recovered paper — Production 1.00 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 1.00 million t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import value 33,177 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard, not elsewhere specified — Import quantity 19,284 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export value 149,119 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Export quantity 252,685 t (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import value 818,937 1000 USD (2024)
- Other paper and paperboard — Import quantity 1.05 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — yield in Saudi Arabia?
- Watermelons — yield in Saudi Arabia was 25,731 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — yield recorded in Saudi Arabia?
- The highest recorded value was 49,850 kg/ha in 1971.
- What is the lowest watermelons — yield recorded in Saudi Arabia?
- The lowest recorded value was 11,957 kg/ha in 1974.
- How does Saudi Arabia rank for watermelons — yield?
- Saudi Arabia ranks 54th out of 131 countries with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — yield rising or falling in Saudi Arabia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 27.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Saudi Arabia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Watermelons — 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.