Cereals n.e.c. — 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...

Countries reporting
68
Highest
39,973 kg/ha
Oman
Lowest
338.9 kg/ha
Niger
Median
1,566 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,209

What the numbers show

Cereals n.e.c. — Yield is currently reported for 68 countries. The highest value is 39,973 kg/ha in Oman; the lowest is 338.9 kg/ha in Niger.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,566 kg/ha, and the mean is 2,389 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 118.

Over the past decade 29 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Oman (up 1,580.2%), and the largest decrease in Slovenia (down 80.4%).

Cereals n.e.c. — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Oman 39,973 kg/ha 2024 up 1,580.2% volatile
2 New Zealand 5,833 kg/ha 2024 down 1.2% rising
2 Australia and New Zealand 5,833 kg/ha 2024 down 1.2% rising
4 Luxembourg 5,077 kg/ha 2024 down 14.2% falling
5 Qatar 5,000 kg/ha 2022 down 58.0% flat
6 Saudi Arabia 4,261 kg/ha 2024 flat
7 Czechoslovakia 4,000 kg/ha 1992 up 185.0% volatile
8 Uzbekistan 3,790 kg/ha 2024 up 15.8% rising
9 Georgia 3,530 kg/ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
10 Belgium 3,472 kg/ha 2024 down 31.2% falling
11 Palestine 3,254 kg/ha 2022 up 6.7% rising
12 Italy 2,922 kg/ha 2024 down 19.2% rising
13 Belarus 2,912 kg/ha 2024 down 7.3% rising
14 Serbia 2,839 kg/ha 2024 up 6.5% falling
15 France 2,727 kg/ha 2024 down 26.2% rising
16 Switzerland 2,583 kg/ha 2024 down 0.4% falling
17 Thailand 2,516 kg/ha 2024 down 0.7% flat
18 China, mainland 2,407 kg/ha 2024 down 6.1% flat
19 China 2,402 kg/ha 2024 down 6.1% rising
20 Colombia 2,113 kg/ha 2024 down 6.4% rising
21 Austria 2,027 kg/ha 2024 down 48.4% flat
22 China, Taiwan Province of 2,001 kg/ha 2024 down 5.3% rising
23 Spain 1,952 kg/ha 2024 up 52.4% rising
24 Republic of Korea 1,946 kg/ha 2024 up 33.8% rising
25 Ireland 1,940 kg/ha 2017 up 26.4% rising
26 Mexico 1,927 kg/ha 2024 up 47.6% rising
27 Ethiopia 1,787 kg/ha 2024 up 13.4% rising
28 Tunisia 1,669 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
29 Hungary 1,664 kg/ha 2024 down 28.0% falling
30 Czechia 1,638 kg/ha 2024 up 27.6% falling
31 Portugal 1,636 kg/ha 2024 up 5.6% falling
32 Armenia 1,607 kg/ha 2024 down 38.5% rising
33 Ukraine 1,605 kg/ha 2024 down 41.2% rising
34 Poland 1,586 kg/ha 2024 down 22.9% falling
35 Greece 1,546 kg/ha 2024 down 54.9% falling
36 Kazakhstan 1,498 kg/ha 2024 down 4.1% rising
37 Bulgaria 1,494 kg/ha 2024 down 12.5% rising
38 Romania 1,422 kg/ha 2024 down 29.8% rising
39 USSR 1,260 kg/ha 1990 up 26.0% rising
40 Botswana 1,227 kg/ha 2024 up 4.8% rising
41 Latvia 1,222 kg/ha 2024 up 23.6% rising
42 Estonia 1,164 kg/ha 2024 up 135.3% rising
43 Chad 1,146 kg/ha 2024 up 23.7% rising
44 United Republic of Tanzania 1,073 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
45 Croatia 1,051 kg/ha 2024 down 59.2% falling
46 Zimbabwe 998 kg/ha 2024 down 0.1% falling
47 Lithuania 989.4 kg/ha 2024 down 25.8% volatile
48 Bhutan 964.1 kg/ha 2024 down 0.1% rising
49 Sierra Leone 906.3 kg/ha 2024 up 12.3% rising
50 Ethiopia PDR 865.7 kg/ha 1992 up 6.5% rising
51 Morocco 860.9 kg/ha 2024 up 5.8% volatile
52 Togo 846.7 kg/ha 2016 down 36.2% volatile
53 Slovenia 840.9 kg/ha 2024 down 80.4% falling
54 Slovakia 834.1 kg/ha 2024 down 69.4% falling
55 Peru 831.9 kg/ha 2024 down 0.4% flat
56 Finland 807.3 kg/ha 2024 down 31.4% falling
57 Eritrea 696.6 kg/ha 2024 down 3.4% rising
58 Congo 684 kg/ha 2024 down 0.3% flat
59 Myanmar 662.9 kg/ha 2024 up 2.3% rising
60 Argentina 644.2 kg/ha 2024 up 1.0% falling
61 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 634 kg/ha 2024 up 8.6% rising
62 Burundi 524.7 kg/ha 2024 down 10.6% falling
63 Mali 450.1 kg/ha 2024 up 3.6% rising
64 Senegal 415.9 kg/ha 1990 up 66.4% rising
65 Russian Federation 398.9 kg/ha 2024 down 16.6% volatile
66 Guinea-Bissau 363.4 kg/ha 2024 down 0.7% flat
67 Mongolia 353.5 kg/ha 2024 down 32.3% volatile
68 Niger 338.9 kg/ha 2024 up 0.2% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Cereals n.e.c. — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
97 places, 4,209 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.