Plums and sloes — Yield in Canada
Canada: Plums and sloes — Yield was 7,786 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Plums and sloes — Yield in Canada, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for plums and sloes — yield in Canada is 7,786 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 15.1% on the previous year and up 15.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, plums and sloes — yield in Canada peaked at 8,392 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 2,801 kg/ha, in 1993.
Canada ranks 35th of 88 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.
Plums and sloes — Yield in Canada, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,462 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,362 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1963 | 5,327 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1964 | 5,346 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1965 | 5,320 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1966 | 5,310 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1967 | 5,331 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1968 | 5,292 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1969 | 5,312 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1970 | 5,311 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1971 | 5,329 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1972 | 5,333 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1973 | 5,356 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1974 | 5,355 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1975 | 5,345 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1976 | 5,305 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1977 | 5,354 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1978 | 5,352 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1979 | 5,330 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1980 | 5,333 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1981 | 4,162 kg/ha | -22.0% |
| 1982 | 4,136 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1983 | 4,194 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1984 | 4,148 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1985 | 4,199 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1986 | 4,187 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1987 | 4,135 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1988 | 4,138 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1989 | 4,766 kg/ha | +15.2% |
| 1990 | 4,525 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1991 | 4,360 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1992 | 2,995 kg/ha | -31.3% |
| 1993 | 2,801 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1994 | 3,675 kg/ha | +31.2% |
| 1995 | 5,562 kg/ha | +51.3% |
| 1996 | 6,182 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1997 | 5,292 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1998 | 5,269 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1999 | 5,731 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 2000 | 4,642 kg/ha | -19.0% |
| 2001 | 5,376 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 2002 | 4,598 kg/ha | -14.5% |
| 2003 | 5,363 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 2004 | 5,324 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2005 | 5,063 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2006 | 6,802 kg/ha | +34.3% |
| 2007 | 4,522 kg/ha | -33.5% |
| 2008 | 5,062 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 2009 | 6,442 kg/ha | +27.3% |
| 2010 | 7,853 kg/ha | +21.9% |
| 2011 | 5,241 kg/ha | -33.3% |
| 2012 | 4,429 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 2013 | 6,283 kg/ha | +41.8% |
| 2014 | 6,721 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 2015 | 6,487 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2016 | 5,923 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 2017 | 8,392 kg/ha | +41.7% |
| 2018 | 6,992 kg/ha | -16.7% |
| 2019 | 8,292 kg/ha | +18.6% |
| 2020 | 6,210 kg/ha | -25.1% |
| 2021 | 7,541 kg/ha | +21.4% |
| 2022 | 8,035 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2023 | 6,766 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 2024 | 7,786 kg/ha | +15.1% |
Canada compared with similar countries
- Canada's 7,786 kg/ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 6,566 kg/ha, 1.2× the median. (32 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Plums and sloes — Yield in Canada 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | +51.3% | 3,675 kg/ha | 5,562 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,340 kg/ha | 5,292 kg/ha | 5,462 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 5,337 kg/ha | 5,305 kg/ha | 5,356 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,340 kg/ha | 4,135 kg/ha | 5,333 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,639 kg/ha | 2,801 kg/ha | 6,182 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 5,319 kg/ha | 4,522 kg/ha | 6,802 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,661 kg/ha | 4,429 kg/ha | 8,392 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 7,268 kg/ha | 6,210 kg/ha | 8,035 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Canada
- 32 Afghanistan 8,620 kg/ha compare
- 33 Lebanon 8,454 kg/ha compare
- 34 Bhutan 8,081 kg/ha compare
- 36 South Africa 7,679 kg/ha compare
- 37 Ecuador 7,673 kg/ha compare
- 38 China, Taiwan Province of 7,248 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Canada
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 31.61 % change on previous year (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0193 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,092 current US$ per person (2022)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.0803 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1712 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.9% (2022)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.9% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is plums and sloes — yield in Canada?
- Plums and sloes — yield in Canada was 7,786 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 8,392 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest plums and sloes — yield recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,801 kg/ha in 1993.
- How does Canada rank for plums and sloes — yield?
- Canada ranks 35th out of 88 countries with data for 2024.
- Is plums and sloes — yield rising or falling in Canada?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Canada 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.