Barley — Yield in Northern America
Northern America: Barley — Yield was 3,576 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Barley — Yield in Northern America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Northern America recorded 3,576 kg/ha for barley — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 3.3% on the previous year and up 2.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, barley — yield in Northern America peaked at 3,993 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 1,482 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Northern America 9th out of 26 groups 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.
Barley — Yield in Northern America, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,482 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,825 kg/ha | +23.1% |
| 1963 | 1,897 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1964 | 1,892 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1965 | 2,152 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 1966 | 2,106 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1967 | 1,943 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1968 | 2,177 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 1969 | 2,271 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1970 | 2,262 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1971 | 2,377 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1972 | 2,283 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1973 | 2,144 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1974 | 1,915 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 1975 | 2,235 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 1976 | 2,427 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1977 | 2,430 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1978 | 2,535 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1979 | 2,483 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1980 | 2,525 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1981 | 2,631 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1982 | 2,865 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1983 | 2,572 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 1984 | 2,563 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1985 | 2,673 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1986 | 2,875 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1987 | 2,802 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1988 | 2,282 kg/ha | -18.5% |
| 1989 | 2,544 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1990 | 2,988 kg/ha | +17.4% |
| 1991 | 2,851 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1992 | 3,107 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1993 | 3,140 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1994 | 2,924 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1995 | 3,021 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1996 | 3,171 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1997 | 2,964 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1998 | 3,066 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1999 | 3,229 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2000 | 3,066 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2001 | 2,765 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 2002 | 2,476 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 2003 | 2,888 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 2004 | 3,410 kg/ha | +18.1% |
| 2005 | 3,286 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2006 | 3,055 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2007 | 2,878 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2008 | 3,377 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 2009 | 3,458 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2010 | 3,406 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2011 | 3,404 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 3,125 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 2013 | 3,829 kg/ha | +22.5% |
| 2014 | 3,484 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 2015 | 3,579 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2016 | 3,993 kg/ha | +11.6% |
| 2017 | 3,787 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 2018 | 3,666 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 2019 | 3,899 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2020 | 3,903 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 2,481 kg/ha | -36.4% |
| 2022 | 3,808 kg/ha | +53.5% |
| 2023 | 3,461 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 2024 | 3,576 kg/ha | +3.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,972 kg/ha | 1,482 kg/ha | 2,271 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,309 kg/ha | 1,915 kg/ha | 2,535 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,633 kg/ha | 2,282 kg/ha | 2,875 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,046 kg/ha | 2,851 kg/ha | 3,229 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,066 kg/ha | 2,476 kg/ha | 3,458 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,617 kg/ha | 3,125 kg/ha | 3,993 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,446 kg/ha | 2,481 kg/ha | 3,903 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
- 6 United Republic of Tanzania 1,953 kg/ha compare
- 6 Zambia 6,466 kg/ha compare
- 7 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,188 kg/ha compare
- 7 Germany 6,392 kg/ha compare
- 8 Belgium 6,249 kg/ha compare
- 8 Syrian Arab Republic 1,157 kg/ha compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 879.6 kg/ha compare
- 9 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 6,174 kg/ha compare
- 10 Democratic Republic of the Congo 665.1 kg/ha compare
- 10 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 5,939 kg/ha compare
- 11 Saudi Arabia 5,736 kg/ha compare
- 12 Austria 5,731 kg/ha compare
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- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing -3.31 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual 0.5317 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Production, annual growth rate 1.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of chickens, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 0.7404 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of goat, fresh or chilled — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 7.27 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Production, annual growth rate 1.72 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual growth 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass 2.96 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is barley — yield in Northern America?
- Barley — yield in Northern America was 3,576 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest barley — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 3,993 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest barley — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,482 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Northern America rank for barley — yield?
- Northern America ranks 9th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is barley — yield rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Northern America 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.