Asparagus — Yield in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Asparagus — Yield was 4,736 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Asparagus — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Australia and New Zealand recorded 4,736 kg/ha for asparagus — yield in 2024.
The figure is up 1.9% on the previous year and up 3.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, asparagus — yield in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 5,286 kg/ha in 2008 and was at its lowest, 1,516 kg/ha, in 1982.
That places Australia and New Zealand 22nd out of 49 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Asparagus — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,024 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 3,022 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1963 | 3,482 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 1964 | 3,036 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 1965 | 3,275 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1966 | 2,946 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1967 | 3,532 kg/ha | +19.9% |
| 1968 | 3,242 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1969 | 2,802 kg/ha | -13.6% |
| 1970 | 2,562 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1971 | 2,991 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 1972 | 2,421 kg/ha | -19.1% |
| 1973 | 2,514 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1974 | 2,438 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1975 | 2,038 kg/ha | -16.4% |
| 1976 | 2,460 kg/ha | +20.7% |
| 1977 | 2,917 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 1978 | 2,854 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1979 | 3,079 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1980 | 2,578 kg/ha | -16.3% |
| 1981 | 2,195 kg/ha | -14.8% |
| 1982 | 1,516 kg/ha | -31.0% |
| 1983 | 1,901 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 1984 | 2,637 kg/ha | +38.7% |
| 1985 | 2,055 kg/ha | -22.1% |
| 1986 | 1,933 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1987 | 2,333 kg/ha | +20.7% |
| 1988 | 2,365 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1989 | 2,540 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1990 | 3,361 kg/ha | +32.3% |
| 1991 | 2,644 kg/ha | -21.3% |
| 1992 | 4,765 kg/ha | +80.2% |
| 1993 | 3,116 kg/ha | -34.6% |
| 1994 | 3,268 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1995 | 3,077 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 1996 | 3,314 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1997 | 3,324 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1998 | 4,097 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 1999 | 3,696 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 2000 | 4,040 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 2001 | 3,778 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2002 | 4,100 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2003 | 4,151 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2004 | 4,370 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2005 | 4,346 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2006 | 4,416 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2007 | 4,054 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2008 | 5,286 kg/ha | +30.4% |
| 2009 | 4,071 kg/ha | -23.0% |
| 2010 | 4,431 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2011 | 4,590 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2012 | 4,500 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2013 | 4,581 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2014 | 4,596 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 4,602 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 4,605 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 4,519 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2018 | 4,618 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2019 | 4,626 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 4,719 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2021 | 4,680 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2022 | 4,751 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2023 | 4,646 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2024 | 4,736 kg/ha | +1.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,151 kg/ha | 2,802 kg/ha | 3,532 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,627 kg/ha | 2,038 kg/ha | 3,079 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,205 kg/ha | 1,516 kg/ha | 2,637 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,466 kg/ha | 2,644 kg/ha | 4,765 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,261 kg/ha | 3,778 kg/ha | 5,286 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,567 kg/ha | 4,431 kg/ha | 4,626 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,706 kg/ha | 4,646 kg/ha | 4,751 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is asparagus — yield in Australia and New Zealand?
- Asparagus — yield in Australia and New Zealand was 4,736 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest asparagus — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 5,286 kg/ha in 2008.
- What is the lowest asparagus — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,516 kg/ha in 1982.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for asparagus — yield?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 22nd out of 49 countries with data for 2024.
- Is asparagus — yield rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Asparagus — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.