Rice — Yield in Peru
Peru: Rice — Yield was 8,307 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Rice — Yield in Peru, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, rice — yield in Peru stood at 8,307 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.6% on the previous year and up 9.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rice — yield in Peru peaked at 8,324 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 3,707 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places Peru 7th out of 127 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 4,034 kg/ha | 3,707 kg/ha | 4,325 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,209 kg/ha | 4,012 kg/ha | 4,421 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 4,705 kg/ha | 4,194 kg/ha | 5,150 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,612 kg/ha | 4,981 kg/ha | 6,251 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,836 kg/ha | 6,440 kg/ha | 7,393 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,640 kg/ha | 7,285 kg/ha | 8,124 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,242 kg/ha | 8,096 kg/ha | 8,324 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Peru
- Agriculture share gdp 7.47 (2024)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 7.47 (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
- Rural population 14.4% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.7% (2025)
- Rural population 4.98 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 7.5% (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 21.80 billion current US$ (2024)
- Bananas — Production 2.34 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is rice — yield in Peru?
- Rice — yield in Peru was 8,307 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest rice — yield recorded in Peru?
- The highest recorded value was 8,324 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest rice — yield recorded in Peru?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,707 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Peru rank for rice — yield?
- Peru ranks 7th out of 127 countries with data for 2024.
- Is rice — yield rising or falling in Peru?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Peru 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.