Millet — Yield in Bhutan
Bhutan: Millet — Yield was 1,114 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Millet — Yield in Bhutan, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Bhutan recorded 1,114 kg/ha for millet — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 1.3% on the previous year and down 61.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, millet — yield in Bhutan peaked at 2,871 kg/ha in 2014 and was at its lowest, 612.9 kg/ha, in 2000.
Bhutan ranks 43rd of 86 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Millet — Yield in Bhutan, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 746 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 745 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1963 | 730 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1964 | 730.4 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1965 | 724.3 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1966 | 720 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1967 | 718.4 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1968 | 717 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1969 | 717 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 722.2 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1971 | 727.3 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1972 | 745.5 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1973 | 750 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1974 | 754.4 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1975 | 830.2 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1976 | 754.1 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 1977 | 786.9 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 1978 | 793.7 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1979 | 785.7 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1980 | 737.5 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1981 | 791.7 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1982 | 792.7 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1983 | 788.9 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1984 | 814.9 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1985 | 769.2 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1986 | 875 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 1987 | 851.9 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1988 | 858.7 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1989 | 866.7 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1990 | 1,097 kg/ha | +26.6% |
| 1991 | 783 kg/ha | -28.6% |
| 1992 | 833.2 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1993 | 875 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1994 | 785.6 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 1995 | 769.8 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1996 | 754.5 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1997 | 739.6 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1998 | 707.7 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1999 | 703 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2000 | 612.9 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 2001 | 615.4 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2002 | 660 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2003 | 690.8 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2004 | 799 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 2005 | 1,033 kg/ha | +29.2% |
| 2006 | 1,089 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 2007 | 1,013 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2008 | 1,427 kg/ha | +40.8% |
| 2009 | 1,031 kg/ha | -27.8% |
| 2010 | 1,188 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 2011 | 1,898 kg/ha | +59.8% |
| 2012 | 1,516 kg/ha | -20.1% |
| 2013 | 2,306 kg/ha | +52.1% |
| 2014 | 2,871 kg/ha | +24.5% |
| 2015 | 1,331 kg/ha | -53.6% |
| 2016 | 1,305 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 2017 | 1,186 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 2018 | 958.4 kg/ha | -19.2% |
| 2019 | 1,141 kg/ha | +19.1% |
| 2020 | 1,481 kg/ha | +29.8% |
| 2021 | 1,220 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 2022 | 1,147 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2023 | 1,129 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2024 | 1,114 kg/ha | -1.3% |
Bhutan compared with similar countries
- Bhutan's 1,114 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 1,099 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Bhutan's 1,114 kg/ha is below the median for South Asia, which is 1,135 kg/ha, 98% of the median. (6 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Millet — Yield in Bhutan changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | +59.8% | 1,188 kg/ha | 1,898 kg/ha |
| 2015 | -53.6% | 2,871 kg/ha | 1,331 kg/ha |
| 2013 | +52.1% | 1,516 kg/ha | 2,306 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 727.57 kg/ha | 717 kg/ha | 746 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 765 kg/ha | 722.2 kg/ha | 830.2 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 814.72 kg/ha | 737.5 kg/ha | 875 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 804.85 kg/ha | 703 kg/ha | 1,097 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 897.03 kg/ha | 612.9 kg/ha | 1,427 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,570 kg/ha | 958.4 kg/ha | 2,871 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,218 kg/ha | 1,114 kg/ha | 1,481 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Bhutan
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1368 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 614.64 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.8653 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5657 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 13.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 13.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is millet — yield in Bhutan?
- Millet — yield in Bhutan was 1,114 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest millet — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The highest recorded value was 2,871 kg/ha in 2014.
- What is the lowest millet — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The lowest recorded value was 612.9 kg/ha in 2000.
- How does Bhutan rank for millet — yield?
- Bhutan ranks 43rd out of 86 countries with data for 2024.
- Is millet — yield rising or falling in Bhutan?
- Over the last ten years it is down 61.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Bhutan data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Millet — 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.