Asparagus — Yield in Canada
Canada: Asparagus — Yield was 4,583 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Asparagus — Yield in Canada, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for asparagus — yield in Canada is 4,583 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 4.4% on the previous year and up 20.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, asparagus — yield in Canada peaked at 4,741 kg/ha in 2019 and was at its lowest, 1,229 kg/ha, in 1984.
Canada ranks 23rd of 49 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Asparagus — Yield in Canada, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,695 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,699 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1963 | 1,695 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1964 | 1,690 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1965 | 1,708 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1966 | 1,594 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1967 | 1,622 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1968 | 1,818 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 1969 | 1,957 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1970 | 2,053 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1971 | 2,032 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1972 | 1,872 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1973 | 2,184 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 1974 | 1,935 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1975 | 1,793 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1976 | 1,590 kg/ha | -11.3% |
| 1977 | 1,763 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1978 | 1,697 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1979 | 1,704 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1980 | 1,519 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1981 | 1,615 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1982 | 1,416 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 1983 | 1,231 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 1984 | 1,229 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1985 | 1,348 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1986 | 1,515 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1987 | 1,294 kg/ha | -14.6% |
| 1988 | 1,500 kg/ha | +15.9% |
| 1989 | 1,734 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 1990 | 1,772 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1991 | 1,679 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1992 | 1,969 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 1993 | 1,950 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1994 | 1,823 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1995 | 2,198 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 1996 | 2,032 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1997 | 1,629 kg/ha | -19.9% |
| 1998 | 1,924 kg/ha | +18.1% |
| 1999 | 2,152 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 2000 | 2,376 kg/ha | +10.4% |
| 2001 | 2,368 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2002 | 2,283 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2003 | 2,403 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2004 | 2,348 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2005 | 2,880 kg/ha | +22.7% |
| 2006 | 3,054 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2007 | 2,808 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2008 | 2,900 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2009 | 4,212 kg/ha | +45.2% |
| 2010 | 3,676 kg/ha | -12.7% |
| 2011 | 4,194 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 2012 | 4,057 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2013 | 4,588 kg/ha | +13.1% |
| 2014 | 3,796 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 2015 | 4,387 kg/ha | +15.6% |
| 2016 | 4,640 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2017 | 4,414 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2018 | 4,455 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2019 | 4,741 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2020 | 3,974 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 2021 | 4,325 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2022 | 4,014 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 2023 | 4,388 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 2024 | 4,583 kg/ha | +4.4% |
Canada compared with similar countries
- Canada's 4,583 kg/ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 4,226 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (29 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,720 kg/ha | 1,594 kg/ha | 1,957 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,862 kg/ha | 1,590 kg/ha | 2,184 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,440 kg/ha | 1,229 kg/ha | 1,734 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,913 kg/ha | 1,629 kg/ha | 2,198 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,763 kg/ha | 2,283 kg/ha | 4,212 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,295 kg/ha | 3,676 kg/ha | 4,741 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,257 kg/ha | 3,974 kg/ha | 4,583 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Canada
- 20 Australia 5,147 kg/ha compare
- 21 China, Taiwan Province of 4,916 kg/ha compare
- 22 Australia and New Zealand 4,736 kg/ha compare
- 24 Belgium 4,500 kg/ha compare
- 24 Luxembourg 4,500 kg/ha compare
- 26 Spain 4,302 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Canada
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 31.61 % change on previous year (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0193 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,092 current US$ per person (2022)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.0803 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1712 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.9% (2022)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.9% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is asparagus — yield in Canada?
- Asparagus — yield in Canada was 4,583 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest asparagus — yield recorded in Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 4,741 kg/ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest asparagus — yield recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,229 kg/ha in 1984.
- How does Canada rank for asparagus — yield?
- Canada ranks 23rd out of 49 countries with data for 2024.
- Is asparagus — yield rising or falling in Canada?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Canada 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.