Buckwheat — Yield by country
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...
What the numbers show
Buckwheat — Yield is currently reported for 34 countries. The highest value is 3,519 kg/ha in France; the lowest is 180 kg/ha in Tajikistan.
The median across all reporting countries is 945.05 kg/ha, and the mean is 1,058 kg/ha.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 20.
Over the past decade 18 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in USSR (up 93.2%), and the largest decrease in Republic of Moldova (down 88.2%).
Buckwheat — Yield: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | 3,519 kg/ha | 2017 | down 1.0% | rising |
| 2 | Czechia | 2,550 kg/ha | 2017 | up 24.1% | rising |
| 2 | United Republic of Tanzania | 1,042 kg/ha | 2024 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 3 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,861 kg/ha | 2024 | up 41.7% | rising |
| 4 | Poland | 1,450 kg/ha | 2017 | up 25.1% | rising |
| 4 | Republic of Moldova | 200 kg/ha | 2024 | down 88.2% | volatile |
| 5 | Kyrgyzstan | 1,444 kg/ha | 2024 | up 51.0% | rising |
| 6 | Brazil | 1,356 kg/ha | 2024 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 7 | Nepal | 1,290 kg/ha | 2024 | up 31.2% | rising |
| 8 | Ukraine | 1,259 kg/ha | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 9 | Austria | 1,167 kg/ha | 1968 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 10 | Canada | 1,154 kg/ha | 2024 | up 10.5% | flat |
| 11 | Russian Federation | 1,123 kg/ha | 2024 | up 20.8% | rising |
| 12 | Georgia | 1,077 kg/ha | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 13 | Bhutan | 1,030 kg/ha | 2024 | down 48.8% | rising |
| 14 | Lithuania | 1,000 kg/ha | 2019 | up 48.3% | rising |
| 15 | Belarus | 971.1 kg/ha | 2024 | down 2.2% | rising |
| 16 | Kazakhstan | 946.9 kg/ha | 2024 | up 31.2% | rising |
| 17 | Yugoslav SFR | 943.2 kg/ha | 1991 | down 5.7% | rising |
| 18 | Hungary | 938.1 kg/ha | 2017 | up 30.2% | rising |
| 19 | Latvia | 934.4 kg/ha | 2017 | down 9.9% | rising |
| 20 | Republic of Korea | 922.9 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.0% | rising |
| 21 | Croatia | 897.8 kg/ha | 2017 | down 61.5% | falling |
| 22 | Slovakia | 855.5 kg/ha | 2017 | up 22.6% | flat |
| 23 | China, mainland | 808.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 23 | China | 808.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 25 | Uzbekistan | 800 kg/ha | 2024 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 26 | Slovenia | 797.6 kg/ha | 2017 | down 15.2% | falling |
| 27 | Estonia | 641.3 kg/ha | 2017 | down 42.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Japan | 585.5 kg/ha | 2024 | up 12.8% | falling |
| 29 | USSR | 510.9 kg/ha | 1991 | up 93.2% | rising |
| 30 | Czechoslovakia | 500 kg/ha | 1987 | down 50.0% | rising |
| 31 | South Africa | 402.2 kg/ha | 2024 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 32 | Tajikistan | 180 kg/ha | 2003 | down 70.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Western Europe 3,519 kg/ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 1,127 kg/ha
- Southern Europe 1,861 kg/ha
- South America 1,356 kg/ha
- Asia 812.7 kg/ha
- Southern Asia 1,269 kg/ha
- Americas 1,168 kg/ha
- Europe 1,130 kg/ha
- Eastern Europe 1,130 kg/ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 1,126 kg/ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 1,124 kg/ha
- Western Asia 1,077 kg/ha
- Northern America 1,073 kg/ha
- United States of America 1,059 kg/ha
- Eastern Africa 1,042 kg/ha
- Africa 1,025 kg/ha
- World 1,002 kg/ha
- Northern Europe 1,000 kg/ha
- European Union (27) 1,000 kg/ha
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 983.7 kg/ha
- Central Asia 946.7 kg/ha
- Eastern Asia 786.4 kg/ha
- Southern Africa 402.2 kg/ha
About this data
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.