India vs Nepal: Rice — Yield
Rice — Yield over time
- India
- Nepal
How they compare
India currently reports 4,313 kg/ha against 4,192 kg/ha in Nepal, a difference of 121 kg/ha.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Nepal ahead.
India ranks 56th and Nepal ranks 58th of 127 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, India averaged higher in 5 and Nepal in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Nepal | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,496 kg/ha | 1,915 kg/ha | 419.26 kg/ha | Nepal |
| 1970s | 1,736 kg/ha | 1,888 kg/ha | 151.79 kg/ha | Nepal |
| 1980s | 2,202 kg/ha | 1,991 kg/ha | 211.18 kg/ha | India |
| 1990s | 2,741 kg/ha | 2,387 kg/ha | 354.11 kg/ha | India |
| 2000s | 3,078 kg/ha | 2,741 kg/ha | 336.69 kg/ha | India |
| 2010s | 3,701 kg/ha | 3,381 kg/ha | 319.54 kg/ha | India |
| 2020s | 4,226 kg/ha | 3,850 kg/ha | 376.06 kg/ha | India |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher rice — yield, India or Nepal?
- India, at 4,313 kg/ha against 4,192 kg/ha in Nepal as of 2024.
- What is the difference in rice — yield between India and Nepal?
- 121 kg/ha, with India ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Nepal?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do India and Nepal rank globally for rice — yield?
- India ranks 56th and Nepal ranks 58th of 127 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Rice — Yield. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.