Sorghum — Yield in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Sorghum — Yield was 3,151 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Sorghum — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Australia and New Zealand recorded 3,151 kg/ha for sorghum — yield in 2024.
The figure is down 4.7% on the previous year and up 30.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sorghum — yield in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 4,261 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 1,109 kg/ha, in 1966.
That places Australia and New Zealand 27th out of 111 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Sorghum — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,581 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,736 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1963 | 1,762 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1964 | 1,451 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 1965 | 1,394 kg/ha | -3.9% |
| 1966 | 1,109 kg/ha | -20.4% |
| 1967 | 1,568 kg/ha | +41.4% |
| 1968 | 1,541 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1969 | 1,404 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1970 | 1,526 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1971 | 2,351 kg/ha | +54.1% |
| 1972 | 1,924 kg/ha | -18.2% |
| 1973 | 1,460 kg/ha | -24.1% |
| 1974 | 1,966 kg/ha | +34.6% |
| 1975 | 1,763 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1976 | 2,230 kg/ha | +26.5% |
| 1977 | 1,797 kg/ha | -19.4% |
| 1978 | 1,813 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1979 | 2,400 kg/ha | +32.4% |
| 1980 | 1,778 kg/ha | -25.9% |
| 1981 | 1,830 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1982 | 2,029 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1983 | 1,356 kg/ha | -33.2% |
| 1984 | 2,582 kg/ha | +90.4% |
| 1985 | 1,894 kg/ha | -26.7% |
| 1986 | 1,928 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1987 | 1,734 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1988 | 2,192 kg/ha | +26.4% |
| 1989 | 1,990 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 1990 | 2,488 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 1991 | 1,986 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 1992 | 2,543 kg/ha | +28.0% |
| 1993 | 1,283 kg/ha | -49.5% |
| 1994 | 2,170 kg/ha | +69.1% |
| 1995 | 1,856 kg/ha | -14.5% |
| 1996 | 2,068 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 1997 | 2,620 kg/ha | +26.7% |
| 1998 | 2,132 kg/ha | -18.6% |
| 1999 | 3,222 kg/ha | +51.1% |
| 2000 | 3,400 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 2001 | 2,554 kg/ha | -24.9% |
| 2002 | 2,456 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2003 | 2,197 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 2004 | 2,737 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 2005 | 2,663 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 2006 | 2,520 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2007 | 2,092 kg/ha | -17.0% |
| 2008 | 4,025 kg/ha | +92.4% |
| 2009 | 3,510 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 2010 | 3,028 kg/ha | -13.7% |
| 2011 | 3,056 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 3,396 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 2013 | 3,442 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 2,410 kg/ha | -30.0% |
| 2015 | 3,016 kg/ha | +25.2% |
| 2016 | 3,440 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 2017 | 2,702 kg/ha | -21.5% |
| 2018 | 2,720 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2019 | 2,109 kg/ha | -22.5% |
| 2020 | 1,947 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 2021 | 2,862 kg/ha | +47.0% |
| 2022 | 4,261 kg/ha | +48.9% |
| 2023 | 3,307 kg/ha | -22.4% |
| 2024 | 3,151 kg/ha | -4.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,505 kg/ha | 1,109 kg/ha | 1,762 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,923 kg/ha | 1,460 kg/ha | 2,400 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,931 kg/ha | 1,356 kg/ha | 2,582 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,237 kg/ha | 1,283 kg/ha | 3,222 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,815 kg/ha | 2,092 kg/ha | 4,025 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,932 kg/ha | 2,109 kg/ha | 3,442 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,106 kg/ha | 1,947 kg/ha | 4,261 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is sorghum — yield in Australia and New Zealand?
- Sorghum — yield in Australia and New Zealand was 3,151 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sorghum — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 4,261 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest sorghum — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,109 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for sorghum — yield?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 27th out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sorghum — yield rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 30.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- 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 Sorghum — Yield. 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.