Barley — Yield in Bhutan
Bhutan: Barley — Yield was 1,090 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Barley — Yield in Bhutan, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Bhutan recorded 1,090 kg/ha for barley — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.7% on the previous year and down 38.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, barley — yield in Bhutan peaked at 1,957 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 1,000 kg/ha, in 1989.
That places Bhutan 94th out of 104 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Barley — Yield in Bhutan, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,100 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,091 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1963 | 1,125 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1964 | 1,125 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 1,120 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1966 | 1,120 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 1,111 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1968 | 1,103 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1969 | 1,103 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,100 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1971 | 1,100 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 1,129 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1973 | 1,094 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1974 | 1,114 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1975 | 1,114 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,100 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1977 | 1,129 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1978 | 1,125 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1979 | 1,114 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1980 | 1,118 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1981 | 1,143 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1982 | 1,178 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1983 | 1,123 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1984 | 1,126 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1985 | 1,135 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1986 | 1,053 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1987 | 1,053 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 1,163 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1989 | 1,000 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 1990 | 1,026 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1991 | 1,001 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1992 | 1,016 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1993 | 1,031 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1994 | 1,047 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1995 | 1,062 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1996 | 1,078 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1997 | 1,000 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1998 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 1,133 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 2001 | 1,180 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2002 | 1,094 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 2003 | 1,880 kg/ha | +71.9% |
| 2004 | 1,262 kg/ha | -32.8% |
| 2005 | 1,338 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2006 | 1,336 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2007 | 1,298 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2008 | 1,561 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 2009 | 1,211 kg/ha | -22.5% |
| 2010 | 1,345 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2011 | 1,957 kg/ha | +45.5% |
| 2012 | 1,778 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 2013 | 1,785 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2014 | 1,771 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2015 | 1,764 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2016 | 1,715 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2017 | 1,448 kg/ha | -15.6% |
| 2018 | 1,338 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 2019 | 1,296 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2020 | 1,573 kg/ha | +21.4% |
| 2021 | 1,319 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 2022 | 1,164 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 2023 | 1,120 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2024 | 1,090 kg/ha | -2.7% |
Bhutan compared with similar countries
- Bhutan's 1,090 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,064 kg/ha, 53% of the median. (18 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Barley — Yield in Bhutan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | +71.9% | 1,094 kg/ha | 1,880 kg/ha |
| 2011 | +45.5% | 1,345 kg/ha | 1,957 kg/ha |
| 2004 | -32.8% | 1,880 kg/ha | 1,262 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,111 kg/ha | 1,091 kg/ha | 1,125 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,112 kg/ha | 1,094 kg/ha | 1,129 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,109 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,178 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,026 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,078 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,329 kg/ha | 1,094 kg/ha | 1,880 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,620 kg/ha | 1,296 kg/ha | 1,957 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,253 kg/ha | 1,090 kg/ha | 1,573 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Bhutan
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1368 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 614.64 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.8653 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5657 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 13.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 13.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is barley — yield in Bhutan?
- Barley — yield in Bhutan was 1,090 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest barley — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The highest recorded value was 1,957 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest barley — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,000 kg/ha in 1989.
- How does Bhutan rank for barley — yield?
- Bhutan ranks 94th out of 104 countries with data for 2024.
- Is barley — yield rising or falling in Bhutan?
- Over the last ten years it is down 38.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Bhutan data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Barley — 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.