Lettuce and chicory — Yield in New Zealand
New Zealand: Lettuce and chicory — Yield was 26,810 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Lettuce and chicory — Yield in New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, lettuce and chicory — yield in New Zealand stood at 26,810 kg/ha.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, lettuce and chicory — yield in New Zealand peaked at 36,500 kg/ha in 1999 and was at its lowest, 18,688 kg/ha, in 1970.
That places New Zealand 17th out of 107 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 22,580 kg/ha | 20,573 kg/ha | 24,600 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 20,534 kg/ha | 18,688 kg/ha | 22,153 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 20,951 kg/ha | 19,608 kg/ha | 21,971 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 27,216 kg/ha | 21,444 kg/ha | 36,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 25,464 kg/ha | 23,686 kg/ha | 27,134 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 26,444 kg/ha | 26,193 kg/ha | 26,661 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 26,755 kg/ha | 26,692 kg/ha | 26,810 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for New Zealand
- Agriculture share gdp 4.01 (2023)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.01 (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 16.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 852,066 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.0% (2023)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.28 billion current US$ (2023)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 0 t (1998)
Frequently asked questions
- What is lettuce and chicory — yield in New Zealand?
- Lettuce and chicory — yield in New Zealand was 26,810 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 36,500 kg/ha in 1999.
- What is the lowest lettuce and chicory — yield recorded in New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 18,688 kg/ha in 1970.
- How does New Zealand rank for lettuce and chicory — yield?
- New Zealand ranks 17th out of 107 countries with data for 2024.
- Is lettuce and chicory — yield rising or falling in New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Lettuce and chicory — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.