Plums and sloes — Yield in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Plums and sloes — Yield was 6,916 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Plums and sloes — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Australia and New Zealand recorded 6,916 kg/ha for plums and sloes — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and down 0.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plums and sloes — yield in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 10,693 kg/ha in 1984 and was at its lowest, 6,061 kg/ha, in 1969.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 41st of 88 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Plums and sloes — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6,983 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 7,035 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1963 | 7,387 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1964 | 7,992 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1965 | 7,351 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1966 | 7,780 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1967 | 6,786 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 1968 | 8,501 kg/ha | +25.3% |
| 1969 | 6,061 kg/ha | -28.7% |
| 1970 | 6,730 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1971 | 6,820 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1972 | 8,336 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1973 | 6,943 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 1974 | 7,360 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1975 | 6,624 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1976 | 7,651 kg/ha | +15.5% |
| 1977 | 9,283 kg/ha | +21.3% |
| 1978 | 7,313 kg/ha | -21.2% |
| 1979 | 7,027 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1980 | 9,628 kg/ha | +37.0% |
| 1981 | 10,285 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1982 | 9,631 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1983 | 8,186 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 1984 | 10,693 kg/ha | +30.6% |
| 1985 | 8,617 kg/ha | -19.4% |
| 1986 | 8,770 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1987 | 9,370 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1988 | 9,160 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1989 | 6,699 kg/ha | -26.9% |
| 1990 | 6,907 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1991 | 6,604 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1992 | 6,866 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1993 | 6,945 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1994 | 7,298 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1995 | 7,312 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1996 | 7,262 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1997 | 7,158 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1998 | 7,094 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1999 | 6,992 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2000 | 6,832 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2001 | 9,247 kg/ha | +35.3% |
| 2002 | 7,165 kg/ha | -22.5% |
| 2003 | 8,969 kg/ha | +25.2% |
| 2004 | 7,430 kg/ha | -17.2% |
| 2005 | 7,339 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2006 | 6,829 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2007 | 6,773 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2008 | 6,732 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2009 | 6,958 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2010 | 6,974 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 6,949 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2012 | 7,007 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2013 | 7,017 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 6,947 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2015 | 6,944 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2016 | 6,876 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2017 | 6,955 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2018 | 6,928 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2019 | 6,929 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 6,885 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2021 | 6,943 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2022 | 6,952 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2023 | 6,901 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2024 | 6,916 kg/ha | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,320 kg/ha | 6,061 kg/ha | 8,501 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,409 kg/ha | 6,624 kg/ha | 9,283 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 9,104 kg/ha | 6,699 kg/ha | 10,693 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,044 kg/ha | 6,604 kg/ha | 7,312 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 7,427 kg/ha | 6,732 kg/ha | 9,247 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,953 kg/ha | 6,876 kg/ha | 7,017 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,919 kg/ha | 6,885 kg/ha | 6,952 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is plums and sloes — yield in Australia and New Zealand?
- Plums and sloes — yield in Australia and New Zealand was 6,916 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 10,693 kg/ha in 1984.
- What is the lowest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,061 kg/ha in 1969.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for plums and sloes — yield?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 41st out of 88 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plums and sloes — yield rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- 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 Plums and sloes — 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.