Asia vs New Zealand: Cereals, primary — Yield

Asia
4,488 kg/ha
in 2024
New Zealand
9,102 kg/ha
in 2024
Asia rank
2nd
New Zealand rank
8th

Cereals, primary — Yield over time

  • Asia
  • New Zealand
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How they compare

New Zealand currently reports 9,102 kg/ha against 4,488 kg/ha in Asia, a difference of 4,614 kg/ha.

That makes New Zealand's figure about 2.0 times Asia's.

Across all 64 years both countries report, New Zealand has been ahead every year.

Asia ranks 2nd and New Zealand ranks 8th of 19 regions.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Asia New Zealand Difference Ahead
1960s 1,397 kg/ha 3,299 kg/ha 1,902 kg/ha New Zealand
1970s 1,810 kg/ha 3,685 kg/ha 1,875 kg/ha New Zealand
1980s 2,434 kg/ha 4,465 kg/ha 2,030 kg/ha New Zealand
1990s 2,932 kg/ha 5,610 kg/ha 2,679 kg/ha New Zealand
2000s 3,349 kg/ha 6,945 kg/ha 3,597 kg/ha New Zealand
2010s 4,024 kg/ha 7,962 kg/ha 3,938 kg/ha New Zealand
2020s 4,402 kg/ha 8,764 kg/ha 4,363 kg/ha New Zealand

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher cereals, primary — yield, Asia or New Zealand?
New Zealand, at 9,102 kg/ha against 4,488 kg/ha in Asia as of 2024.
What is the difference in cereals, primary — yield between Asia and New Zealand?
4,614 kg/ha, with New Zealand ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Asia and New Zealand?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Asia and New Zealand rank globally for cereals, primary — yield?
Asia ranks 2nd and New Zealand ranks 8th of 19 regions.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Cereals, primary — Yield. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Cereals, primary — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
226 places, 12,848 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.