Change of cereal yield vs land used by country

Countries reporting
186
Highest
27.67
Oman
Lowest
0.0403
Cape Verde
Median
3.05
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
10,534

What the numbers show

Change of cereal yield vs land used is currently reported for 186 countries. The highest value is 27.67 in Oman; the lowest is 0.0403 in Cape Verde.

The median across all reporting countries is 3.05, and the mean is 3.75.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 687.

Over the past decade 110 countries rose and 75 fell. The largest increase was in Cyprus (up 394.7%), and the largest decrease in French Guiana (down 51.0%).

Change of cereal yield vs land used: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Oman 27.67 2024 up 257.0% volatile
2 United Arab Emirates 22.47 2024 up 57.8% volatile
3 Qatar 14.98 2024 up 130.6% volatile
4 Kuwait 14.2 2024 down 35.1% volatile
5 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 13.34 2024 down 45.5% volatile
6 Mauritius 11.89 2024 up 215.8% volatile
7 New Caledonia 11.65 2024 up 142.7% volatile
8 New Zealand 9.1 2024 up 13.3% rising
9 United States of America 8.41 2024 up 10.2% rising
10 Réunion 7.78 2006 up 2.4% rising
11 Bahamas 7.74 2024 up 2.9% volatile
12 Egypt 7.36 2024 up 3.9% rising
13 Ireland 7.32 2024 down 13.5% rising
14 Belgium 6.86 2024 down 27.3% falling
15 Netherlands 6.81 2024 down 25.0% rising
16 Germany 6.79 2024 down 15.6% rising
17 Austria 6.72 2024 down 4.6% rising
18 Chile 6.61 2024 up 7.8% rising
19 Slovenia 6.59 2024 up 1.8% rising
20 Croatia 6.57 2024 up 9.0% rising
21 Guyana 6.56 2024 up 25.9% rising
22 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 6.56 2024 down 14.8% rising
23 Republic of Korea 6.54 2024 down 1.1% rising
24 China 6.49 2024 up 10.1% rising
25 Taiwan, China 6.43 2024 up 2.0% rising
26 France 6.28 2024 down 17.1% rising
27 Japan 6.25 2024 down 1.2% rising
28 Denmark 6.1 2024 down 9.7% rising
29 Viet Nam 6.04 2024 up 8.2% rising
30 Czechia 5.75 2024 down 7.5% rising
31 Hungary 5.63 2024 down 4.5% rising
32 Slovakia 5.56 2024 down 7.9% rising
33 Uzbekistan 5.5 2024 up 14.3% rising
34 Indonesia 5.42 2024 up 6.3% rising
35 Bangladesh 5.41 2024 up 18.6% rising
36 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.36 2024 up 34.8% rising
37 Portugal 5.31 2024 up 20.2% volatile
38 Sweden 5.24 2024 down 7.2% rising
39 Luxembourg 5.21 2024 down 12.3% flat
40 Serbia 5.17 2024 down 13.2% rising
41 Albania 5.15 2024 up 5.3% rising
42 Ukraine 5.15 2024 up 17.0% rising
43 Saudi Arabia 5.11 2024 down 1.7% volatile
44 Bulgaria 5.1 2024 up 5.0% rising
45 Uruguay 5.06 2024 up 16.2% volatile
46 Brazil 5 2024 up 7.8% volatile
47 Italy 4.98 2024 down 12.9% rising
48 Malta 4.88 2017 up 15.1% rising
49 Argentina 4.85 2024 up 5.1% rising
50 Poland 4.85 2024 up 13.7% rising
51 Peru 4.85 2024 up 20.8% rising
52 Papua New Guinea 4.79 2024 up 1.3% rising
53 Switzerland 4.58 2024 down 34.9% rising
54 South Africa 4.56 2024 down 6.9% volatile
55 Dominican Republic 4.46 2024 down 1.8% rising
56 Suriname 4.45 2024 up 0.3% rising
57 Colombia 4.42 2024 up 17.8% rising
58 Lithuania 4.39 2024 up 10.4% rising
59 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 4.31 2024 up 6.8% rising
60 Panama 4.23 2024 up 41.7% rising
61 Norway 4.22 2024 down 3.3% rising
62 Lao People's Democratic Republic 4.2 2024 down 6.9% rising
63 Tajikistan 4.12 2024 up 29.3% rising
64 Sri Lanka 4.07 2024 up 7.1% rising
65 Greece 4.05 2024 down 5.4% rising
66 Canada 4.02 2024 up 10.3% rising
67 Ecuador 4.01 2024 up 24.6% rising
68 Latvia 3.97 2024 up 14.0% rising
69 Philippines 3.83 2024 up 5.4% rising
70 Costa Rica 3.81 2024 down 15.4% rising
71 Spain 3.79 2024 up 16.5% rising
72 Myanmar 3.78 2024 up 2.4% rising
73 Cambodia 3.78 2024 up 22.0% rising
74 Mexico 3.75 2024 up 4.7% rising
75 Puerto Rico 3.75 2024 up 77.6% volatile
76 Estonia 3.73 2024 up 1.7% rising
77 Belize 3.7 2024 up 2.9% rising
78 India 3.63 2024 up 21.5% rising
79 Pakistan 3.62 2024 up 20.6% rising
80 Finland 3.62 2024 down 1.9% rising
81 Paraguay 3.62 2024 up 10.4% rising
82 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 3.61 2024 down 13.1% rising
83 North Macedonia 3.57 2024 down 8.6% rising
84 Bhutan 3.55 2024 up 9.1% rising
85 Malaysia 3.54 2024 down 23.5% rising
86 Romania 3.53 2024 down 13.4% rising
87 Nepal 3.52 2024 up 29.4% rising
88 Kyrgyzstan 3.49 2024 up 53.3% rising
89 Türkiye 3.43 2024 up 21.1% rising
90 Azerbaijan 3.43 2024 up 46.2% rising
91 Belarus 3.39 2024 down 8.8% rising
92 Thailand 3.08 2024 down 1.9% rising
93 Fiji 3.07 2024 down 31.5% rising
94 Russian Federation 3.04 2024 up 24.5% rising
95 El Salvador 2.82 2024 up 13.4% rising
96 Georgia 2.82 2024 up 38.5% rising
97 Barbados 2.79 2024 up 3.5% rising
98 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2.72 2024 up 32.8% rising
99 Montenegro 2.7 2024 down 21.8% rising
100 Australia 2.69 2024 up 34.5% rising
101 Lebanon 2.66 2024 down 21.4% rising
102 Iraq 2.65 2024 up 25.2% volatile
103 Ghana 2.63 2024 up 54.5% rising
104 Ethiopia 2.63 2024 up 18.1% rising
105 Israel 2.62 2024 down 46.7% rising
106 Côte d'Ivoire 2.54 2024 up 15.2% rising
107 Palestine, State of 2.52 2022 up 28.9% rising
108 Nicaragua 2.52 2023 up 42.7% rising
109 Maldives 2.44 2024 up 5.7% rising
110 Brunei Darussalam 2.42 2024 up 49.7% flat
111 Republic of Moldova 2.41 2024 down 23.9% rising
112 Madagascar 2.39 2024 down 20.5% rising
113 Afghanistan 2.36 2024 up 12.5% rising
114 Zambia 2.32 2024 down 16.5% rising
115 Guatemala 2.24 2024 up 6.9% rising
116 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 2.21 2024 up 12.8% rising
117 Timor-Leste 2.11 2024 down 27.7% rising
118 Djibouti 2.04 2024 up 2.7% rising
119 Sao Tome and Principe 2 2024 down 3.0% rising
120 Senegal 2 2024 up 80.3% rising
121 Hong Kong, China 2 1990 down 5.7% rising
121 Guadeloupe 2 1977 unchanged falling
123 Iceland 1.97 2024 down 38.1% falling
124 Antigua and Barbuda 1.96 2024 up 24.0% falling
125 Armenia 1.96 2024 down 38.4% rising
126 Cuba 1.95 2024 down 30.9% rising
127 Uganda 1.92 2024 down 7.7% rising
128 Tunisia 1.89 2024 up 4.7% rising
129 Honduras 1.89 2024 up 1.7% rising
130 Malawi 1.88 2024 down 15.4% rising
131 Tanzania, United Republic of 1.87 2024 up 12.2% rising
132 Solomon Islands 1.87 2024 down 2.5% falling
133 Rwanda 1.78 2024 up 26.7% rising
134 Cameroon 1.77 2024 up 8.6% rising
135 Comoros 1.72 2024 down 8.5% rising
136 Micronesia (Federated States of) 1.72 2024 up 2.7% rising
137 Turkmenistan 1.71 2024 down 0.6% falling
138 French Guiana 1.7 2006 down 51.0% rising
139 Kenya 1.69 2024 up 6.9% rising
140 Dominica 1.69 2024 up 4.1% rising
141 Mali 1.66 2024 up 6.8% rising
142 Jordan 1.61 2024 up 22.5% rising
143 Syrian Arab Republic 1.61 2024 up 51.1% rising
144 Gabon 1.59 2024 down 0.3% rising
145 Nigeria 1.56 2024 up 0.2% rising
146 Mauritania 1.54 2024 down 8.4% volatile
147 Algeria 1.54 2024 up 12.2% rising
148 Kazakhstan 1.53 2024 up 30.4% rising
149 USSR 1.52 1991 up 26.5% rising
150 Cyprus 1.44 2024 up 394.7% rising
151 Sierra Leone 1.37 2024 down 9.8% rising
152 Benin 1.36 2024 down 7.1% rising
153 Guinea 1.35 2024 up 20.3% falling
154 Jamaica 1.34 2024 up 17.9% falling
155 Guinea-Bissau 1.33 2024 down 4.4% rising
156 Mongolia 1.25 2024 down 25.0% rising
157 Morocco 1.24 2024 down 14.7% rising
158 Burkina Faso 1.2 2024 down 2.3% rising
159 Togo 1.2 2024 up 3.9% rising
160 Burundi 1.16 2024 down 12.7% rising
161 Liberia 1.11 2024 down 3.9% rising
162 Angola 1.11 2024 up 24.5% rising
163 Eswatini 1.08 2024 down 20.5% rising
164 Zimbabwe 1.07 2024 up 28.7% falling
165 Haiti 1.06 2024 up 18.9% falling
166 Gambia 1 2024 up 33.4% falling
167 Grenada 0.9966 2024 up 0.3% rising
168 Trinidad and Tobago 0.9757 2024 up 11.2% falling
169 South Sudan 0.945 2024 down 24.6% rising
170 Botswana 0.9004 2024 up 195.0% volatile
171 Congo 0.8737 2024 up 4.9% flat
172 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 0.8718 2024 up 13.4% rising
173 Chad 0.8269 2024 down 3.4% rising
174 Central African Republic 0.7884 2024 down 12.0% rising
175 Mozambique 0.7764 2024 up 4.2% flat
176 Yemen 0.7687 2024 down 20.2% rising
177 Saint Lucia 0.7 1979 down 21.6% falling
178 Libya 0.6597 2024 down 1.1% rising
179 Eritrea 0.638 2024 down 4.3% rising
180 Vanuatu 0.6362 2024 up 3.3% rising
181 Lesotho 0.6035 2024 down 11.7% falling
182 Sudan 0.5803 2024 down 15.1% falling
183 Niger 0.5774 2024 up 29.2% rising
184 Somalia 0.3621 2024 down 37.9% rising
185 Namibia 0.1844 2024 down 18.4% rising
186 Cape Verde 0.0403 2024 up 17.5% volatile

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Indicator
Change of cereal yield vs land used
Source
Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
186 places, 10,534 data points, 1961–2024
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