Soya beans — Yield in Australia
Australia: Soya beans — Yield was 2,968 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Soya beans — Yield in Australia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for soya beans — yield in Australia is 2,968 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 18.2% on the previous year and up 131.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in Australia peaked at 2,968 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 385.8 kg/ha, in 1966.
Australia ranks 12th of 111 countries on this measure, 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 | 613.24 kg/ha | 385.8 kg/ha | 831.3 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,529 kg/ha | 1,012 kg/ha | 1,866 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,644 kg/ha | 1,102 kg/ha | 1,902 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,813 kg/ha | 1,532 kg/ha | 2,267 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,895 kg/ha | 1,463 kg/ha | 2,329 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,658 kg/ha | 901.2 kg/ha | 2,260 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,243 kg/ha | 1,718 kg/ha | 2,968 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Australia
- 9 Ethiopia PDR 3,088 kg/ha compare
- 10 Paraguay 3,040 kg/ha compare
- 11 Egypt 3,000 kg/ha compare
- 12 Australia and New Zealand 2,968 kg/ha compare
- 14 Argentina 2,945 kg/ha compare
- 15 Serbia and Montenegro 2,811 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Australia
- Agriculture share gdp 2.27 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.27 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2025)
- Rural population 12.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 3.39 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 40.76 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 368,735 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is soya beans — yield in Australia?
- Soya beans — yield in Australia was 2,968 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in Australia?
- The highest recorded value was 2,968 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in Australia?
- The lowest recorded value was 385.8 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Australia rank for soya beans — yield?
- Australia ranks 12th out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in Australia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 131.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Australia data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Soya beans — 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.