Asparagus — Yield by country
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...
What the numbers show
Asparagus — Yield is currently reported for 50 countries. The highest value is 25,451 kg/ha in Iran (Islamic Republic of); the lowest is 1,000 kg/ha in Romania.
The median across all reporting countries is 4,542 kg/ha, and the mean is 5,341 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 25.
Over the past decade 26 countries rose and 22 fell. The largest increase was in Finland (up 185.7%), and the largest decrease in Portugal (down 84.2%).
Asparagus — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 25,451 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 2 | Thailand | 14,133 kg/ha | 2024 | up 68.9% | rising |
| 3 | Israel | 12,511 kg/ha | 2024 | up 60.4% | rising |
| 4 | Peru | 11,686 kg/ha | 2024 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 5 | Mexico | 9,255 kg/ha | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 6 | Belgium-Luxembourg | 8,600 kg/ha | 1999 | up 59.3% | falling |
| 7 | Philippines | 8,530 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.5% | rising |
| 8 | Poland | 7,667 kg/ha | 2024 | down 41.7% | falling |
| 9 | Türkiye | 7,578 kg/ha | 2024 | up 111.7% | volatile |
| 10 | Greece | 7,024 kg/ha | 2024 | up 16.5% | rising |
| 11 | Lithuania | 6,933 kg/ha | 2017 | down 22.0% | falling |
| 12 | Italy | 6,448 kg/ha | 2024 | down 6.1% | rising |
| 13 | Netherlands (Kingdom of the) | 6,082 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.1% | flat |
| 14 | Morocco | 5,924 kg/ha | 2024 | down 52.6% | volatile |
| 15 | Japan | 5,916 kg/ha | 2024 | up 15.8% | rising |
| 16 | China, mainland | 5,476 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 17 | China | 5,476 kg/ha | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 18 | Germany | 5,472 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.5% | rising |
| 19 | Chile | 5,414 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 20 | Hungary | 5,340 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.2% | volatile |
| 21 | Kenya | 5,264 kg/ha | 2024 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 22 | Australia | 5,147 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 23 | China, Taiwan Province of | 4,916 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.5% | falling |
| 24 | Australia and New Zealand | 4,736 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 25 | Canada | 4,583 kg/ha | 2024 | up 20.7% | rising |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 4,500 kg/ha | 2024 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 26 | Belgium | 4,500 kg/ha | 2024 | down 50.0% | flat |
| 28 | Spain | 4,302 kg/ha | 2024 | down 10.9% | flat |
| 29 | Costa Rica | 4,226 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.7% | flat |
| 30 | Zimbabwe | 4,177 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 31 | Argentina | 4,037 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 32 | France | 3,726 kg/ha | 2024 | down 18.7% | rising |
| 33 | Austria | 3,579 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.4% | flat |
| 34 | New Zealand | 3,313 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 35 | Colombia | 3,220 kg/ha | 2024 | up 7.3% | falling |
| 36 | Slovakia | 3,200 kg/ha | 2023 | down 12.7% | falling |
| 37 | Slovenia | 3,000 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.6% | falling |
| 38 | Ecuador | 2,993 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 39 | Croatia | 2,810 kg/ha | 2024 | — | volatile |
| 40 | North Macedonia | 2,407 kg/ha | 2024 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 41 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 2,400 kg/ha | 2024 | down 11.1% | rising |
| 42 | Bhutan | 2,010 kg/ha | 2024 | up 8.4% | falling |
| 43 | Bulgaria | 2,000 kg/ha | 2021 | down 64.9% | rising |
| 43 | Sweden | 2,000 kg/ha | 2024 | up 42.9% | rising |
| 45 | Switzerland | 1,727 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.4% | falling |
| 46 | Czechia | 1,700 kg/ha | 2024 | down 71.5% | volatile |
| 47 | Finland | 1,667 kg/ha | 2024 | up 185.7% | volatile |
| 48 | Denmark | 1,524 kg/ha | 2024 | down 12.9% | rising |
| 49 | Portugal | 1,471 kg/ha | 2024 | down 84.2% | volatile |
| 50 | Romania | 1,000 kg/ha | 2023 | unchanged | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Southern Asia 24,392 kg/ha
- Northern Africa 21,812 kg/ha
- South-eastern Asia 13,982 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 11,669 kg/ha
- South America 10,582 kg/ha
- Americas 9,508 kg/ha
- Central America 9,251 kg/ha
- Western Asia 7,709 kg/ha
- Eastern Europe 6,692 kg/ha
- United States of America 6,437 kg/ha
- Northern America 5,798 kg/ha
- World 5,677 kg/ha
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.