Rice — Yield in Cambodia
Cambodia: Rice — Yield was 3,644 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Cambodia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for rice — yield in Cambodia is 3,644 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.2% on the previous year and up 18.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Cambodia peaked at 3,644 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 695.1 kg/ha, in 1979.
That places Cambodia 64th out of 114 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.
Rice — Yield in Cambodia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,092 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 892 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 1963 | 1,174 kg/ha | +31.6% |
| 1964 | 1,161 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1965 | 1,067 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1966 | 1,089 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1967 | 1,216 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 1968 | 1,399 kg/ha | +15.0% |
| 1969 | 1,288 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1970 | 1,590 kg/ha | +23.5% |
| 1971 | 1,453 kg/ha | -8.6% |
| 1972 | 1,377 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1973 | 1,295 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1974 | 1,144 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1975 | 1,200 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1976 | 1,100 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1977 | 1,000 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 1978 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 695.1 kg/ha | -30.5% |
| 1980 | 1,192 kg/ha | +71.5% |
| 1981 | 1,131 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1982 | 1,207 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1983 | 1,265 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1984 | 1,288 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1985 | 1,250 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1986 | 1,377 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1987 | 1,325 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1988 | 1,370 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1989 | 1,436 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1990 | 1,348 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1991 | 1,396 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1992 | 1,318 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1993 | 1,307 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1994 | 1,488 kg/ha | +13.8% |
| 1995 | 1,792 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 1996 | 1,812 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1997 | 1,771 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1998 | 1,788 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1999 | 1,943 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 2000 | 2,116 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2001 | 2,070 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 2002 | 1,916 kg/ha | -7.4% |
| 2003 | 2,101 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2004 | 1,977 kg/ha | -5.9% |
| 2005 | 2,479 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 2006 | 2,489 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2007 | 2,622 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2008 | 2,746 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2009 | 2,836 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2010 | 2,970 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2011 | 2,957 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 2012 | 3,089 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 2013 | 3,163 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2014 | 3,078 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2015 | 3,085 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 3,210 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2017 | 3,297 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2018 | 3,353 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2019 | 3,335 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2020 | 3,345 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 3,490 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2022 | 3,546 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2023 | 3,602 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2024 | 3,644 kg/ha | +1.2% |
Cambodia compared with similar countries
- Cambodia's 3,644 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 3,692 kg/ha, 99% of the median. (32 countries reporting)
- Cambodia's 3,644 kg/ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 3,792 kg/ha, 96% of the median. (12 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Rice — Yield in Cambodia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | +71.5% | 695.1 kg/ha | 1,192 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,153 kg/ha | 892 kg/ha | 1,399 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,185 kg/ha | 695.1 kg/ha | 1,590 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,284 kg/ha | 1,131 kg/ha | 1,436 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,596 kg/ha | 1,307 kg/ha | 1,943 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,335 kg/ha | 1,916 kg/ha | 2,836 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,154 kg/ha | 2,957 kg/ha | 3,353 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,525 kg/ha | 3,345 kg/ha | 3,644 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Cambodia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.49 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1611 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 462.77 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.7882 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5889 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 3.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Cambodia?
- Rice — yield in Cambodia was 3,644 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Cambodia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,644 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Cambodia?
- The lowest recorded value was 695.1 kg/ha in 1979.
- How does Cambodia rank for rice — yield?
- Cambodia ranks 64th out of 114 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Cambodia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cambodia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Rice — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.