Sour cherries — Yield in Canada
Canada: Sour cherries — Yield was 5,440 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Sour cherries — Yield in Canada, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sour cherries — yield in Canada is 5,440 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 32.3% on the previous year and up 16.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sour cherries — yield in Canada peaked at 11,895 kg/ha in 1980 and was at its lowest, 1,613 kg/ha, in 2012.
Canada ranks 15th of 38 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 64 years of available data.
Sour cherries — Yield in Canada, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5,763 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 5,730 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1963 | 5,768 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1964 | 5,756 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1965 | 5,754 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1966 | 5,758 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1967 | 5,733 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1968 | 5,750 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1969 | 5,744 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1970 | 5,759 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1971 | 5,752 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1972 | 5,744 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1973 | 5,725 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1974 | 5,768 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1975 | 11,254 kg/ha | +95.1% |
| 1976 | 7,954 kg/ha | -29.3% |
| 1977 | 10,834 kg/ha | +36.2% |
| 1978 | 8,175 kg/ha | -24.5% |
| 1979 | 10,578 kg/ha | +29.4% |
| 1980 | 11,895 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1981 | 4,777 kg/ha | -59.8% |
| 1982 | 9,137 kg/ha | +91.3% |
| 1983 | 8,394 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1984 | 9,400 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 1985 | 8,962 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1986 | 5,149 kg/ha | -42.5% |
| 1987 | 7,888 kg/ha | +53.2% |
| 1988 | 6,786 kg/ha | -14.0% |
| 1989 | 7,460 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1990 | 5,332 kg/ha | -28.5% |
| 1991 | 6,168 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 1992 | 9,104 kg/ha | +47.6% |
| 1993 | 7,119 kg/ha | -21.8% |
| 1994 | 7,932 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 1995 | 8,514 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1996 | 5,801 kg/ha | -31.9% |
| 1997 | 6,650 kg/ha | +14.6% |
| 1998 | 5,603 kg/ha | -15.7% |
| 1999 | 9,295 kg/ha | +65.9% |
| 2000 | 7,180 kg/ha | -22.8% |
| 2001 | 4,937 kg/ha | -31.2% |
| 2002 | 5,236 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2003 | 6,112 kg/ha | +16.7% |
| 2004 | 4,877 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 2005 | 9,405 kg/ha | +92.8% |
| 2006 | 4,192 kg/ha | -55.4% |
| 2007 | 8,462 kg/ha | +101.8% |
| 2008 | 6,910 kg/ha | -18.3% |
| 2009 | 6,683 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 2010 | 5,682 kg/ha | -15.0% |
| 2011 | 2,577 kg/ha | -54.6% |
| 2012 | 1,613 kg/ha | -37.4% |
| 2013 | 6,428 kg/ha | +298.5% |
| 2014 | 4,683 kg/ha | -27.2% |
| 2015 | 4,358 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 2016 | 7,396 kg/ha | +69.7% |
| 2017 | 6,110 kg/ha | -17.4% |
| 2018 | 4,391 kg/ha | -28.1% |
| 2019 | 4,704 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2020 | 2,865 kg/ha | -39.1% |
| 2021 | 4,886 kg/ha | +70.5% |
| 2022 | 4,159 kg/ha | -14.9% |
| 2023 | 8,040 kg/ha | +93.3% |
| 2024 | 5,440 kg/ha | -32.3% |
Canada compared with similar countries
- Canada's 5,440 kg/ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 3,750 kg/ha, 1.5× the median. (21 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Sour cherries — Yield in Canada 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | +298.5% | 1,613 kg/ha | 6,428 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5,751 kg/ha | 5,730 kg/ha | 5,768 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,754 kg/ha | 5,725 kg/ha | 11,254 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 7,985 kg/ha | 4,777 kg/ha | 11,895 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 7,152 kg/ha | 5,332 kg/ha | 9,295 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,400 kg/ha | 4,192 kg/ha | 9,405 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,794 kg/ha | 1,613 kg/ha | 7,396 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,078 kg/ha | 2,865 kg/ha | 8,040 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Canada
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 31.61 % change on previous year (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0193 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2022)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,092 current US$ per person (2022)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.0803 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1712 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.9% (2022)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.9% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sour cherries — yield in Canada?
- Sour cherries — yield in Canada was 5,440 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sour cherries — yield recorded in Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 11,895 kg/ha in 1980.
- What is the lowest sour cherries — yield recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,613 kg/ha in 2012.
- How does Canada rank for sour cherries — yield?
- Canada ranks 15th out of 38 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sour cherries — yield rising or falling in Canada?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Canada data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sour cherries — 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.