Millet — Yield in China
China: Millet — Yield was 3,147 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Millet — Yield in China, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, millet — yield in China stood at 3,147 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.9% on the previous year and up 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, millet — yield in China peaked at 3,147 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 822.1 kg/ha, in 1962.
That places China 6th out of 86 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Millet — Yield in China, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 974.3 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 822.1 kg/ha | -15.6% |
| 1963 | 879.9 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1964 | 986 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 1965 | 945.2 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1966 | 1,286 kg/ha | +36.0% |
| 1967 | 1,286 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 1,250 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1969 | 1,232 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1970 | 1,411 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 1971 | 1,357 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1972 | 1,077 kg/ha | -20.6% |
| 1973 | 1,167 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1974 | 1,250 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1975 | 1,226 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1976 | 1,233 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1977 | 1,373 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1978 | 1,533 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1979 | 1,474 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1980 | 1,406 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1981 | 1,482 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1982 | 1,629 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1983 | 1,844 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 1984 | 1,850 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1985 | 1,801 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1986 | 1,524 kg/ha | -15.4% |
| 1987 | 1,688 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1988 | 1,756 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1989 | 1,566 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1990 | 2,008 kg/ha | +28.2% |
| 1991 | 1,645 kg/ha | -18.1% |
| 1992 | 1,776 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1993 | 2,183 kg/ha | +22.9% |
| 1994 | 2,211 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1995 | 1,984 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1996 | 2,359 kg/ha | +18.9% |
| 1997 | 1,604 kg/ha | -32.0% |
| 1998 | 2,206 kg/ha | +37.6% |
| 1999 | 1,744 kg/ha | -20.9% |
| 2000 | 1,700 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2001 | 1,712 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 1,909 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 2003 | 1,896 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2004 | 1,979 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2005 | 2,102 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 2006 | 2,121 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2007 | 1,796 kg/ha | -15.3% |
| 2008 | 1,578 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 2009 | 1,555 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2010 | 1,945 kg/ha | +25.1% |
| 2011 | 2,102 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2012 | 2,439 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 2013 | 2,439 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2014 | 3,037 kg/ha | +24.5% |
| 2015 | 2,342 kg/ha | -22.9% |
| 2016 | 2,527 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 2017 | 2,959 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 2018 | 3,009 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2019 | 3,139 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2020 | 2,878 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 2021 | 3,108 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2022 | 3,117 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 3,088 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2024 | 3,147 kg/ha | +1.9% |
China compared with similar countries
- China's 3,147 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1,167 kg/ha, 2.7× the median. (16 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,073 kg/ha | 822.1 kg/ha | 1,286 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,310 kg/ha | 1,077 kg/ha | 1,533 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,655 kg/ha | 1,406 kg/ha | 1,850 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,972 kg/ha | 1,604 kg/ha | 2,359 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,835 kg/ha | 1,555 kg/ha | 2,121 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,594 kg/ha | 1,945 kg/ha | 3,139 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,068 kg/ha | 2,878 kg/ha | 3,147 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near China
- 3 Austria 4,292 kg/ha compare
- 3 Syrian Arab Republic 1,836 kg/ha compare
- 4 France 3,795 kg/ha compare
- 4 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,736 kg/ha compare
- 5 China, mainland 3,148 kg/ha compare
- 7 Tajikistan 2,896 kg/ha compare
- 7 United Republic of Tanzania 1,083 kg/ha compare
- 8 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,064 kg/ha compare
- 8 Uzbekistan 2,839 kg/ha compare
- 9 Ethiopia 2,472 kg/ha compare
- 9 Republic of Moldova 1,050 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for China
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 1.98 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0666 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 923.03 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.48 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3366 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is millet — yield in China?
- Millet — yield in China was 3,147 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest millet — yield recorded in China?
- The highest recorded value was 3,147 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest millet — yield recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 822.1 kg/ha in 1962.
- How does China rank for millet — yield?
- China ranks 6th out of 86 countries with data for 2024.
- Is millet — yield rising or falling in China?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China 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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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.