Asparagus — Yield in Western Europe
Western Europe: Asparagus — Yield was 4,980 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Asparagus — Yield in Western Europe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Western Europe recorded 4,980 kg/ha for asparagus — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 3.1% on the previous year and down 9.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, asparagus — yield in Western Europe peaked at 5,556 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 2,647 kg/ha, in 1967.
Western Europe ranks 18th of 24 groups 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 Western Europe, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 3,318 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,947 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 1963 | 3,024 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1964 | 3,017 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1965 | 2,766 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1966 | 3,002 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1967 | 2,647 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1968 | 3,285 kg/ha | +24.1% |
| 1969 | 3,248 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1970 | 3,399 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1971 | 3,529 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1972 | 3,143 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1973 | 3,282 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1974 | 3,221 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1975 | 2,994 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1976 | 2,956 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1977 | 2,756 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 1978 | 2,776 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1979 | 2,796 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1980 | 2,746 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1981 | 2,962 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1982 | 3,085 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1983 | 3,115 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1984 | 3,234 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1985 | 3,378 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1986 | 3,411 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1987 | 3,478 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1988 | 3,392 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1989 | 3,333 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1990 | 3,125 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1991 | 2,964 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1992 | 3,955 kg/ha | +33.4% |
| 1993 | 4,007 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1994 | 3,508 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 1995 | 3,496 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1996 | 3,506 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1997 | 3,707 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1998 | 3,814 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1999 | 3,867 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2000 | 4,126 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2001 | 3,795 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2002 | 4,009 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2003 | 4,173 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2004 | 4,308 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2005 | 4,456 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2006 | 4,257 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2007 | 4,873 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 2008 | 4,857 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2009 | 5,159 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2010 | 4,819 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2011 | 5,496 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 2012 | 5,238 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 2013 | 5,123 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2014 | 5,499 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2015 | 5,377 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2016 | 5,247 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2017 | 5,556 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2018 | 5,534 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2019 | 5,448 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2020 | 5,089 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2021 | 5,105 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2022 | 4,945 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2023 | 5,138 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2024 | 4,980 kg/ha | -3.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Asparagus — Yield in Western Europe changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | +33.4% | 2,964 kg/ha | 3,955 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,028 kg/ha | 2,647 kg/ha | 3,318 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,085 kg/ha | 2,756 kg/ha | 3,529 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,213 kg/ha | 2,746 kg/ha | 3,478 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,595 kg/ha | 2,964 kg/ha | 4,007 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,401 kg/ha | 3,795 kg/ha | 5,159 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,334 kg/ha | 4,819 kg/ha | 5,556 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,051 kg/ha | 4,945 kg/ha | 5,138 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is asparagus — yield in Western Europe?
- Asparagus — yield in Western Europe was 4,980 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest asparagus — yield recorded in Western Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 5,556 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest asparagus — yield recorded in Western Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,647 kg/ha in 1967.
- How does Western Europe rank for asparagus — yield?
- Western Europe ranks 18th out of 24 groups with data for 2024.
- Is asparagus — yield rising or falling in Western Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 9.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Western Europe 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.