Canada vs United States of America: Soya beans — Yield

Canada
3,305 kg/ha
in 2024
United States of America
3,412 kg/ha
in 2024
Canada rank
4th
United States of America rank
2nd

Soya beans — Yield over time

  • Canada
  • United States of America
01.0k2.0k3.0k196119922024

How they compare

United States of America currently reports 3,412 kg/ha against 3,305 kg/ha in Canada, a difference of 107 kg/ha.

The two have swapped places 21 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Canada ahead.

Canada ranks 4th and United States of America ranks 2nd of 98 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Canada averaged higher in 4 and United States of America in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade Canada United States of America Difference Ahead
1960s 1,930 kg/ha 1,683 kg/ha 246.64 kg/ha Canada
1970s 2,073 kg/ha 1,887 kg/ha 186.7 kg/ha Canada
1980s 2,345 kg/ha 2,040 kg/ha 305.09 kg/ha Canada
1990s 2,618 kg/ha 2,470 kg/ha 148.4 kg/ha Canada
2000s 2,434 kg/ha 2,712 kg/ha 277.2 kg/ha United States of America
2010s 2,848 kg/ha 3,122 kg/ha 273.6 kg/ha United States of America
2020s 3,118 kg/ha 3,412 kg/ha 293.9 kg/ha United States of America

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher soya beans — yield, Canada or United States of America?
United States of America, at 3,412 kg/ha against 3,305 kg/ha in Canada as of 2024.
What is the difference in soya beans — yield between Canada and United States of America?
107 kg/ha, with United States of America ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and United States of America?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Canada and United States of America rank globally for soya beans — yield?
Canada ranks 4th and United States of America ranks 2nd of 98 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Soya beans — Yield. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Canada vs United States of America: Soya beans — Yield. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 05 September 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/soya-beans-yield/canada/united-states-of-america/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/soya-beans-yield/canada/united-states-of-america/">Canada vs United States of America: Soya beans — Yield</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Soya beans — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
142 places, 6,814 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.