Olives — Yield in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Olives — Yield was 2,488 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Olives — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for olives — yield in Australia and New Zealand is 2,488 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.8% on the previous year and up 10.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, olives — yield in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 2,488 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 868 kg/ha, in 1983.
That places Australia and New Zealand 18th out of 41 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Olives — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 992.6 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 941.1 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1963 | 1,010 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1964 | 1,495 kg/ha | +48.0% |
| 1965 | 954 kg/ha | -36.2% |
| 1966 | 1,590 kg/ha | +66.7% |
| 1967 | 1,524 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1968 | 1,693 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1969 | 1,774 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1970 | 1,496 kg/ha | -15.7% |
| 1971 | 1,735 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 1972 | 1,756 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1973 | 1,925 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 1974 | 1,939 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1975 | 1,649 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 1976 | 2,418 kg/ha | +46.6% |
| 1977 | 1,321 kg/ha | -45.4% |
| 1978 | 2,095 kg/ha | +58.7% |
| 1979 | 2,143 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1980 | 1,537 kg/ha | -28.3% |
| 1981 | 1,025 kg/ha | -33.3% |
| 1982 | 1,859 kg/ha | +81.4% |
| 1983 | 868 kg/ha | -53.3% |
| 1984 | 1,844 kg/ha | +112.4% |
| 1985 | 1,900 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1986 | 1,605 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 1987 | 972 kg/ha | -39.4% |
| 1988 | 1,492 kg/ha | +53.5% |
| 1989 | 1,308 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 1990 | 1,780 kg/ha | +36.1% |
| 1991 | 1,710 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1992 | 1,555 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1993 | 1,562 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1994 | 1,574 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1995 | 1,575 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1996 | 1,454 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1997 | 1,427 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1998 | 1,526 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1999 | 2,003 kg/ha | +31.3% |
| 2000 | 1,831 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 2001 | 1,630 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 2002 | 1,428 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 2003 | 2,127 kg/ha | +49.0% |
| 2004 | 2,076 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2005 | 2,095 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2006 | 2,109 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 2,116 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 2,098 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2009 | 2,088 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2010 | 2,195 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2011 | 2,168 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2012 | 2,200 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2013 | 2,229 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 2,252 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 2,301 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2016 | 2,314 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2017 | 2,331 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2018 | 2,347 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2019 | 2,374 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 2,393 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 2,448 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2022 | 2,446 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2023 | 2,467 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2024 | 2,488 kg/ha | +0.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,331 kg/ha | 941.1 kg/ha | 1,774 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,848 kg/ha | 1,321 kg/ha | 2,418 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,441 kg/ha | 868 kg/ha | 1,900 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,617 kg/ha | 1,427 kg/ha | 2,003 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,960 kg/ha | 1,428 kg/ha | 2,127 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,271 kg/ha | 2,168 kg/ha | 2,374 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,448 kg/ha | 2,393 kg/ha | 2,488 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is olives — yield in Australia and New Zealand?
- Olives — yield in Australia and New Zealand was 2,488 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest olives — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 2,488 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest olives — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 868 kg/ha in 1983.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for olives — yield?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 18th out of 41 countries with data for 2024.
- Is olives — yield rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Olives — 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.