Production, 2009:
world, total : 17 856 658 tonnes
At 2000 calories a day, it would last you 4 days and 7 hours
world crop could feed 81 944 937 people, or entire Germany and Micronesia.
protein content--at 50g/day, enough for 243.6 million people
If we could make a cube out of it, it would be 293,67 m tall
area harvested : 6 593 479 hectares, the size of country like Sri Lanka or Lithuania, or slightly larger than W.Virginia. Rye occupies about 0.42% of all arable land in the world
Major producer is Russia, 4 333 140 tons in 2009, over 2 095 200 hectares under production.
Major producer per capita is Belarus with 129 kg and 570 g , 2.15% of the entire country is under rye. Poland with its 3 712 900 tons total , they have 97.279kg per year per person, 1 395 700 ha or 4.46% of the country is under rye production as of 2009
Best crop worldwide since 1961 was 38 193 889 t in 1990, worst- 14 745 230 t in 2006.
Best yields worldwide were 2708.2 kg/ha in 2009, worst -- 1094.5 kg/ha in 1963.
Record yield belongs to United Kingdom, 7200 kg/ha in 2009.
Rye is losing its popularity, its peak was in 1962 when 30 339 487 hectares were under production, today only 21.7% of that is used for rye.
As for the seeds, about 225-235 kg of rye is used per hectare. Over 1.53 million tonnes of rye were used as seeds in 2009.
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Production by country, 2007, 2008, 2009
| Albania |
Rye
| 3300 | 3100 | 3200 | |||
| Argentina |
Rye
| 77180 | 33859 | 24245 | |||
| Armenia |
Rye
| 895 | 864 | 543 | |||
| Australia |
Rye
| 20000 | * | 20000 | F | M | |
| Austria |
Rye
| 188608 | 218511 | 183642 | |||
| Azerbaijan |
Rye
| 2 | 34 | 3 | |||
| Belarus |
Rye
| 1304949 | 1491847 | 1226753 | |||
| Belgium |
Rye
| 2372 | 2187 | 2700 | |||
| Bolivia (Plurinational State of) |
Rye
| 413 | 420 | 428 | |||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Rye
| 8856 | 11087 | 12192 | |||
| Brazil |
Rye
| 4620 | 6085 | 3921 | |||
| Bulgaria |
Rye
| 8531 | 14766 | 18858 | |||
| Canada |
Rye
| 252000 | 316200 | 280500 | |||
| Chile |
Rye
| 5017 | 5017 | 8477 | |||
| China |
Rye
| 300000 | F | 300000 | F | 320000 | F |
| Croatia |
Rye
| 4364 | 4079 | 2860 | |||
| Czech Republic |
Rye
| 177500 | 209787 | 178070 | |||
| Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
Rye
| 60000 | * | 60000 | F | M | |
| Denmark |
Rye
| 135300 | 151500 | 244600 | |||
| Ecuador |
Rye
| 90 | F | 90 | F | M | |
| Egypt |
Rye
| 44000 | F | 45000 | F | 48000 | F |
| Estonia |
Rye
| 60967 | 65600 | 39069 | |||
| Finland |
Rye
| 86700 | 60800 | 41700 | |||
| France |
Rye
| 119823 | 123515 | 129800 | |||
| Georgia |
Rye
| 24 | 100 | 30 | F | ||
| Germany |
Rye
| 2698282 | 3744245 | 4270029 | |||
| Greece |
Rye
| 39810 | 61500 | 37000 | |||
| Hungary |
Rye
| 81088 | 112493 | 72531 | |||
| Iran (Islamic Republic of) |
Rye
| 0 | F | 0 | F | M | |
| Ireland |
Rye
| 400 | F | 400 | F | 400 | F |
| Italy |
Rye
| 8953 | 10800 | 11700 | |||
| Japan |
Rye
| M | M | M | |||
| Kazakhstan |
Rye
| 68490 | 39910 | 75000 | |||
| Kyrgyzstan |
Rye
| 249 | 385 | 121 | |||
| Latvia |
Rye
| 181100 | 194900 | 162200 | |||
| Lithuania |
Rye
| 165200 | 204900 | 207900 | |||
| Luxembourg |
Rye
| 6953 | 8730 | 6924 | |||
| Mexico |
Rye
| 153 | 19 | M | |||
| Montenegro |
Rye
| 214 | 214 | F | M | ||
| Morocco |
Rye
| 2400 | F | 2400 | F | M | |
| Netherlands |
Rye
| 11000 | 8000 | 11200 | |||
| Norway |
Rye
| 40000 | 47600 | 26500 | |||
| Peru |
Rye
| 81 | 93 | F | 95 | F | |
| Poland |
Rye
| 3125691 | 3448550 | 3712900 | |||
| Portugal |
Rye
| 23800 | 22200 | 18300 | |||
| Republic of Korea |
Rye
| 0 | F | 0 | F | M | |
| Republic of Moldova |
Rye
| 605 | 1317 | 1000 | * | ||
| Romania |
Rye
| 20583 | 31446 | 32959 | |||
| Russian Federation |
Rye
| 3909392 | 4505060 | 4333140 | |||
| Serbia |
Rye
| 10902 | 13608 | 12743 | |||
| Slovakia |
Rye
| 54368 | 80349 | 56932 | |||
| Slovenia |
Rye
| 2509 | 2080 | 2318 | |||
| South Africa |
Rye
| 3100 | F | 3100 | F | M | |
| Spain |
Rye
| 261369 | 279800 | 181400 | |||
| Sweden |
Rye
| 137600 | 168800 | 218900 | |||
| Switzerland |
Rye
| 10100 | 12098 | 15874 | |||
| Tajikistan |
Rye
| 246 | 35 | 40 | F | ||
| The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Rye
| 6735 | 9912 | 9089 | |||
| Turkey |
Rye
| 240540 | 246521 | 343330 | |||
| Turkmenistan |
Rye
| M | M | M | |||
| Ukraine |
Rye
| 562500 | 1050800 | 953500 | |||
| United Kingdom |
Rye
| 38000 | 31542 | 36000 | |||
| United States of America |
Rye
| 160306 | 202675 | 177629 | |||
| Uzbekistan |
Rye
| 7000 | * | 10000 | * | 13500 | * |
| World + (Total) |
Rye
| 14745230 | A | 17700930 | A | 17856568 | A |
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Sources I use most often: FAO.org, CIA.gov, USDA.gov, and many others
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