Pulses, Total — Yield in Australia
Australia: Pulses, Total — Yield was 1,643 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Pulses, Total — Yield in Australia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, pulses, total — yield in Australia stood at 1,643 kg/ha.
That represents a change of down 3.0% on the previous year and up 22.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, pulses, total — yield in Australia peaked at 2,079 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 391.9 kg/ha, in 1976.
Australia ranks 60th of 182 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 796.72 kg/ha | 436.2 kg/ha | 1,015 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 711.48 kg/ha | 391.9 kg/ha | 929.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 987.85 kg/ha | 766.2 kg/ha | 1,193 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,103 kg/ha | 659.6 kg/ha | 1,349 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,052 kg/ha | 578.1 kg/ha | 1,610 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,279 kg/ha | 998.5 kg/ha | 1,712 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,732 kg/ha | 1,422 kg/ha | 2,079 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Australia
- 57 Trinidad and Tobago 1,657 kg/ha compare
- 58 Czechia 1,654 kg/ha compare
- 59 Australia and New Zealand 1,647 kg/ha compare
- 61 Republic of Korea 1,632 kg/ha compare
- 62 Kyrgyzstan 1,625 kg/ha compare
- 63 Afghanistan 1,611 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Australia
- Agriculture share gdp 2.27 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.27 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 12.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 3.39 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 40.76 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 368,735 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is pulses, total — yield in Australia?
- Pulses, total — yield in Australia was 1,643 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest pulses, total — yield recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 2,079 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest pulses, total — yield recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 391.9 kg/ha in 1976.
- How does Australia rank for pulses, total — yield?
- Australia ranks 60th out of 182 countries with data for 2024.
- Is pulses, total — yield rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 22.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Pulses, Total — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.