Denmark vs Germany: Long-run cereal yields in the United Kingdom

Denmark

7.04 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Germany

7.08 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Denmark rank

7th

Germany rank

5th

Long-run cereal yields in the United Kingdom over time

Germany currently reports 7.08 tonnes per hectare against 7.04 tonnes per hectare in Denmark, a difference of 0.0446 tonnes per hectare.

The two have swapped places 23 times across 68 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 7th and Germany ranks 5th of 125 countries.

Indicator: Long-run cereal yields in the United Kingdom
Unit: tonnes per hectare
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 126 places, 6,961 data points, 1275–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Harvested production per unit of harvested area for wheat.