Soya beans — Yield in China
China: Soya beans — Yield was 2,001 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Soya beans — Yield in China, 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 China is 2,001 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 11.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, soya beans — yield in China peaked at 2,001 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 626 kg/ha, in 1961.
China ranks 47th of 111 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 820.68 kg/ha | 626 kg/ha | 984.1 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,042 kg/ha | 855.2 kg/ha | 1,134 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,287 kg/ha | 1,074 kg/ha | 1,443 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,639 kg/ha | 1,380 kg/ha | 1,789 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,675 kg/ha | 1,454 kg/ha | 1,893 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,828 kg/ha | 1,760 kg/ha | 1,946 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,980 kg/ha | 1,948 kg/ha | 2,001 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near China
- 44 French Polynesia 2,029 kg/ha compare
- 44 Polynesia 2,029 kg/ha compare
- 46 China, mainland 2,001 kg/ha compare
- 48 Georgia 2,000 kg/ha compare
- 48 Honduras 2,000 kg/ha compare
- 50 El Salvador 1,936 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for China
- Agriculture share gdp 6.66 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 6.66 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.7% (2024)
- Rural population 33.7% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.5% (2025)
- Rural population 473.41 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.30 trillion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 12.10 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is soya beans — yield in China?
- Soya beans — yield in China was 2,001 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest soya beans — yield recorded in China?
- The highest recorded value was 2,001 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest soya beans — yield recorded in China?
- The lowest recorded value was 626 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does China rank for soya beans — yield?
- China ranks 47th out of 111 countries with data for 2024.
- Is soya beans — yield rising or falling in China?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China 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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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.