Rapeseed yields by country
Yield is the amount produced per unit of land used, measured in tonnes per hectare.
Countries reporting
61
Highest
4.33 tonnes per hectare
Chile
Lowest
0.4523 tonnes per hectare
Mongolia
Median
2.02 tonnes per hectare
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
2,973
What the numbers show
Rapeseed yields is currently reported for 61 countries. The highest value is 4.33 tonnes per hectare in Chile; the lowest is 0.4523 tonnes per hectare in Mongolia.
The median across all reporting countries is 2.02 tonnes per hectare, and the mean is 2.15 tonnes per hectare.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10.
Over the past decade 28 countries rose and 30 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 93.2%), and the largest decrease in North Macedonia (down 43.1%).
Rapeseed yields: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chile | 4.33 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 3 | Denmark | 3.85 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 9.7% | rising |
| 4 | Belgium | 3.37 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 29.8% | flat |
| 6 | Germany | 3.34 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 25.5% | rising |
| 7 | Norway | 3.25 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 37.2% | rising |
| 8 | Slovenia | 3.23 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 9.7% | rising |
| 9 | Turkey | 3.18 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 7.2% | rising |
| 10 | Poland | 3.09 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 10.2% | rising |
| 11 | Sweden | 3.05 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 11.2% | rising |
| 12 | Switzerland | 3.05 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 24.8% | rising |
| 13 | Netherlands | 3.04 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 8.2% | rising |
| 14 | Austria | 3.01 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 19.7% | rising |
| 15 | France | 2.97 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 19.2% | rising |
| 16 | Croatia | 2.95 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 4.1% | rising |
| 17 | Ukraine | 2.85 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 12.2% | rising |
| 18 | United Kingdom | 2.81 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 23.0% | rising |
| 19 | Slovakia | 2.77 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 22.6% | rising |
| 20 | Serbia | 2.76 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 13.8% | rising |
| 21 | Czechia | 2.76 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 30.2% | rising |
| 22 | Italy | 2.75 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 23 | Lithuania | 2.64 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 24 | Hungary | 2.61 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 20.2% | rising |
| 25 | Bulgaria | 2.49 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 10.4% | volatile |
| 26 | Belarus | 2.45 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 34.3% | rising |
| 27 | Spain | 2.28 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 5.4% | rising |
| 28 | Romania | 2.26 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 13.6% | rising |
| 29 | Canada | 2.17 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 11.2% | rising |
| 30 | China | 2.13 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 31 | North Macedonia | 2.13 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 43.1% | rising |
| 32 | Latvia | 2.06 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 33 | New Zealand | 2.02 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 34 | Moldova | 2.01 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 13.8% | rising |
| 35 | United States | 2 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 10.6% | rising |
| 36 | Morocco | 2 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 37 | Algeria | 1.94 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 0.2% | falling |
| 38 | Kazakhstan | 1.92 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 93.2% | rising |
| 39 | Japan | 1.87 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 54.3% | rising |
| 40 | Iran | 1.87 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 41 | Australia | 1.86 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 52.2% | rising |
| 42 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.79 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 13.6% | rising |
| 43 | Russia | 1.77 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 40.3% | rising |
| 44 | Uruguay | 1.76 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 5.5% | falling |
| 45 | South Africa | 1.74 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 36.5% | rising |
| 46 | Ethiopia | 1.69 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 22.2% | rising |
| 47 | Estonia | 1.59 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 23.4% | rising |
| 48 | Kyrgyzstan | 1.48 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 47.6% | rising |
| 49 | Brazil | 1.46 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 16.8% | rising |
| 50 | India | 1.44 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 51 | Argentina | 1.39 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 13.8% | rising |
| 52 | Bangladesh | 1.38 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 36.8% | rising |
| 53 | Finland | 1.33 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 7.6% | flat |
| 54 | Greece | 1.19 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 32.5% | flat |
| 55 | Paraguay | 1.17 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 16.3% | rising |
| 56 | Taiwan | 1.13 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 57 | Pakistan | 1.11 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 19.1% | rising |
| 58 | South Korea | 1 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 58 | Mexico | 1 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | unchanged | rising |
| 60 | Uzbekistan | 0.7609 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 1.5% | falling |
| 61 | Tunisia | 0.7104 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 62 | Tajikistan | 0.568 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | up 7.0% | volatile |
| 63 | Mongolia | 0.4523 tonnes per hectare | 2024 | down 18.3% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- USSR 1.06 tonnes per hectare
About this data
Yield is the amount produced per unit of land used, measured in tonnes per hectare.