What is the difference in wheat yields between Japan and Uruguay?

0.16 tonnes per hectare, with Japan ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Uruguay?

64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.

Where does this data come from?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Wheat yields. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Japan vs Uruguay: Wheat yields

Japan

4.44 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Uruguay

4.28 tonnes per hectare

in 2024

Japan rank

35th

Uruguay rank

37th

Wheat yields over time

Japan
Uruguay

How they compare

Japan currently reports 4.44 tonnes per hectare against 4.28 tonnes per hectare in Uruguay, a difference of 0.16 tonnes per hectare.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 35th and Uruguay ranks 37th of 126 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Japan	Uruguay	Difference	Ahead
1960s	2.51 tonnes per hectare	0.9331 tonnes per hectare	1.58 tonnes per hectare	Japan
1970s	2.75 tonnes per hectare	1 tonnes per hectare	1.75 tonnes per hectare	Japan
1980s	3.27 tonnes per hectare	1.64 tonnes per hectare	1.64 tonnes per hectare	Japan
1990s	3.41 tonnes per hectare	2.17 tonnes per hectare	1.24 tonnes per hectare	Japan
2000s	3.91 tonnes per hectare	2.47 tonnes per hectare	1.44 tonnes per hectare	Japan
2010s	3.94 tonnes per hectare	3.12 tonnes per hectare	0.8194 tonnes per hectare	Japan
2020s	4.6 tonnes per hectare	4.2 tonnes per hectare	0.3937 tonnes per hectare	Japan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher wheat yields, Japan or Uruguay?: Japan, at 4.44 tonnes per hectare against 4.28 tonnes per hectare in Uruguay as of 2024.
What is the difference in wheat yields between Japan and Uruguay?: 0.16 tonnes per hectare, with Japan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Uruguay?: 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Japan and Uruguay rank globally for wheat yields?: Japan ranks 35th and Uruguay ranks 37th of 126 countries.
Where does this data come from?: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Wheat yields. 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

Japan vs Uruguay: Wheat yields. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/wheat-yields/japan/uruguay/

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 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/wheat-yields/japan/uruguay/">Japan vs Uruguay: Wheat yields</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Wheat yields
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: 18 September 2026

Harvested production per unit of harvested area for wheat.