New Zealand vs Portugal: Cereals, primary — Production

New Zealand
1.10 million t
in 2024
Portugal
1.02 million t
in 2024
New Zealand rank
103rd
Portugal rank
106th

Cereals, primary — Production over time

  • New Zealand
  • Portugal
500.0k1.0M1.5M2.0M196119922024

How they compare

New Zealand currently reports 1.10 million t against 1.02 million t in Portugal, a difference of 85,560 t.

That makes New Zealand's figure about 1.1 times Portugal's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Portugal ahead.

New Zealand ranks 103rd and Portugal ranks 106th of 178 countries.

Portugal has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade New Zealand Portugal Difference Ahead
1960s 508,927 t 1.63 million t 1.12 million t Portugal
1970s 782,668 t 1.48 million t 700,475 t Portugal
1980s 924,061 t 1.45 million t 521,646 t Portugal
1990s 843,940 t 1.53 million t 683,892 t Portugal
2000s 915,337 t 1.25 million t 335,023 t Portugal
2010s 1.05 million t 1.18 million t 131,264 t Portugal
2020s 1.02 million t 1.05 million t 36,006 t Portugal

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher cereals, primary — production, New Zealand or Portugal?
New Zealand, at 1.10 million t against 1.02 million t in Portugal as of 2024.
What is the difference in cereals, primary — production between New Zealand and Portugal?
85,560 t, with New Zealand ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for New Zealand and Portugal?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do New Zealand and Portugal rank globally for cereals, primary — production?
New Zealand ranks 103rd and Portugal ranks 106th of 178 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Cereals, primary — Production. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Cereals, primary — Production
Unit
t
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
226 places, 12,898 data points, 1961–2024
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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.