Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production was 405,951 t in 2024. ▼ Falling
Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in t.
Analysis
The most recent figure for shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Australia and New Zealand is 405,951 t, measured in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 9.6% on the previous year and down 19.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 1.41 million t in 1990 and was at its lowest, 405,951 t, in 2024.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 2nd of 100 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | t | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1.00 million t | — |
| 1962 | 1.05 million t | +4.8% |
| 1963 | 1.04 million t | -1.3% |
| 1964 | 1.09 million t | +5.2% |
| 1965 | 1.12 million t | +2.9% |
| 1966 | 1.07 million t | -4.9% |
| 1967 | 1.12 million t | +4.8% |
| 1968 | 1.13 million t | +1.0% |
| 1969 | 1.22 million t | +7.3% |
| 1970 | 1.26 million t | +3.7% |
| 1971 | 1.22 million t | -2.8% |
| 1972 | 1.20 million t | -1.7% |
| 1973 | 1.04 million t | -13.3% |
| 1974 | 985,691 t | -5.6% |
| 1975 | 1.09 million t | +10.3% |
| 1976 | 1.07 million t | -2.0% |
| 1977 | 1.01 million t | -5.7% |
| 1978 | 987,828 t | -1.7% |
| 1979 | 1.03 million t | +3.9% |
| 1980 | 1.07 million t | +3.8% |
| 1981 | 1.08 million t | +1.5% |
| 1982 | 1.08 million t | -0.2% |
| 1983 | 1.07 million t | -0.7% |
| 1984 | 1.09 million t | +1.9% |
| 1985 | 1.19 million t | +8.7% |
| 1986 | 1.19 million t | -0.1% |
| 1987 | 1.24 million t | +4.5% |
| 1988 | 1.26 million t | +1.7% |
| 1989 | 1.30 million t | +3.1% |
| 1990 | 1.41 million t | +8.5% |
| 1991 | 1.37 million t | -2.8% |
| 1992 | 1.17 million t | -14.7% |
| 1993 | 1.12 million t | -3.8% |
| 1994 | 1.11 million t | -1.1% |
| 1995 | 1.02 million t | -8.5% |
| 1996 | 958,500 t | -5.9% |
| 1997 | 1.01 million t | +4.9% |
| 1998 | 955,400 t | -5.0% |
| 1999 | 939,600 t | -1.7% |
| 2000 | 928,200 t | -1.2% |
| 2001 | 783,985 t | -15.5% |
| 2002 | 781,169 t | -0.4% |
| 2003 | 672,332 t | -13.9% |
| 2004 | 688,758 t | +2.4% |
| 2005 | 678,255 t | -1.5% |
| 2006 | 687,179 t | +1.3% |
| 2007 | 647,588 t | -5.8% |
| 2008 | 540,028 t | -16.6% |
| 2009 | 546,918 t | +1.3% |
| 2010 | 526,088 t | -3.8% |
| 2011 | 532,692 t | +1.3% |
| 2012 | 516,919 t | -3.0% |
| 2013 | 518,402 t | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 503,026 t | -3.0% |
| 2015 | 511,555 t | +1.7% |
| 2016 | 508,244 t | -0.6% |
| 2017 | 527,647 t | +3.8% |
| 2018 | 534,412 t | +1.3% |
| 2019 | 475,832 t | -11.0% |
| 2020 | 430,678 t | -9.5% |
| 2021 | 490,691 t | +13.9% |
| 2022 | 464,837 t | -5.3% |
| 2023 | 449,182 t | -3.4% |
| 2024 | 405,951 t | -9.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1.09 million t | 1.00 million t | 1.22 million t | 9 |
| 1970s | 1.09 million t | 985,691 t | 1.26 million t | 10 |
| 1980s | 1.16 million t | 1.07 million t | 1.30 million t | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.11 million t | 939,600 t | 1.41 million t | 10 |
| 2000s | 695,441 t | 540,028 t | 928,200 t | 10 |
| 2010s | 515,482 t | 475,832 t | 534,412 t | 10 |
| 2020s | 448,268 t | 405,951 t | 490,691 t | 5 |
Countries ranked near Australia and New Zealand
- 1 USSR 441,000 t compare
- 2 Türkiye 84,270 t compare
- 3 China 364,481 t compare
- 3 China, mainland 364,481 t compare
- 4 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 48,168 t compare
- 5 Australia 281,000 t compare
- 5 Syrian Arab Republic 20,381 t compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Australia and New Zealand?
- Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production in Australia and New Zealand was 405,951 t in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 1.41 million t in 1990.
- What is the lowest shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 405,951 t in 2024.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 2nd out of 100 countries with data for 2024.
- Is shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — production rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is down 19.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Shorn wool, greasy, including fleece-washed shorn wool — Production. 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.