Spinach — Yield by country

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...

Countries reporting
72
Highest
38,467 kg/ha
China, mainland
Lowest
1,238 kg/ha
Slovakia
Median
12,742 kg/ha
Years covered
64
1961–2024
Data points
4,875

What the numbers show

Spinach — Yield is currently reported for 72 countries. The highest value is 38,467 kg/ha in China, mainland; the lowest is 1,238 kg/ha in Slovakia.

The median across all reporting countries is 12,742 kg/ha, and the mean is 13,797 kg/ha.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 31.

Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 40 fell. The largest increase was in Kenya (up 114.3%), and the largest decrease in Israel (down 90.5%).

Spinach — Yield: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China, mainland 38,467 kg/ha 2024 up 31.1% rising
2 China 38,461 kg/ha 2024 up 31.1% volatile
3 Jordan 36,304 kg/ha 2024 up 7.5% volatile
4 Belgium 29,561 kg/ha 2024 up 18.7% rising
5 Belgium-Luxembourg 28,184 kg/ha 1999 up 61.3% volatile
6 China, Hong Kong SAR 28,170 kg/ha 2024 up 8.7% rising
7 United Arab Emirates 27,683 kg/ha 2024 up 0.5% volatile
8 Austria 23,672 kg/ha 2024 down 3.8% rising
9 Hungary 21,667 kg/ha 2024 up 36.2% rising
10 Singapore 20,636 kg/ha 2024 up 1.5% rising
11 Palestine 20,608 kg/ha 2022 up 17.6% rising
12 Kenya 20,496 kg/ha 2024 up 114.3% rising
13 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 20,221 kg/ha 2024 up 15.2% rising
14 Peru 19,960 kg/ha 2024 up 14.2% rising
15 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 19,613 kg/ha 2024 down 1.6% rising
16 Germany 18,994 kg/ha 2024 down 6.4% rising
17 Colombia 18,832 kg/ha 2024 down 30.3% volatile
18 Spain 18,293 kg/ha 2024 down 3.7% rising
19 Italy 18,188 kg/ha 2024 up 23.7% rising
20 Chile 17,987 kg/ha 2024 down 0.1% flat
21 Qatar 17,762 kg/ha 2024 up 77.6% rising
22 Finland 17,167 kg/ha 2024 down 0.8% flat
23 Egypt 17,144 kg/ha 2024 up 5.3% flat
24 France 16,992 kg/ha 2024 down 16.0% rising
25 Jamaica 16,504 kg/ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
26 Caribbean 16,073 kg/ha 2024 up 1.3% rising
27 Lebanon 15,436 kg/ha 2024 down 9.4% rising
28 Switzerland 15,340 kg/ha 2024 down 5.9% falling
29 Türkiye 15,274 kg/ha 2024 up 25.9% rising
30 Albania 14,853 kg/ha 2024 up 0.7% rising
31 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 14,374 kg/ha 2024 down 10.1% falling
32 Poland 13,800 kg/ha 2024 up 90.3% rising
33 North Macedonia 13,718 kg/ha 2024 down 0.9% flat
34 Mexico 13,674 kg/ha 2024 up 3.6% rising
35 Botswana 13,146 kg/ha 2024 down 48.6% falling
36 Haiti 12,999 kg/ha 2024 down 0.2% rising
37 Republic of Korea 12,484 kg/ha 2024 down 16.3% rising
38 Pakistan 12,238 kg/ha 2024 up 3.1% rising
39 Tunisia 12,041 kg/ha 2024 down 1.5% rising
40 Polynesia 12,012 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
40 French Polynesia 12,012 kg/ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
42 Portugal 11,891 kg/ha 2024 down 28.5% falling
43 Malaysia 11,662 kg/ha 2024 down 0.3% rising
44 Malta 10,976 kg/ha 2017 down 7.3% falling
45 Japan 10,903 kg/ha 2024 down 10.2% falling
46 Kuwait 10,331 kg/ha 2024 down 77.2% flat
47 Ireland 10,000 kg/ha 2024 up 33.3% falling
48 Cyprus 9,625 kg/ha 2024 down 14.2% rising
49 Canada 9,531 kg/ha 2024 up 17.5% falling
50 Congo 8,695 kg/ha 2024 up 4.5% falling
51 Romania 8,556 kg/ha 2024 down 5.9% rising
52 Greece 7,983 kg/ha 2024 down 30.0% rising
53 Czechia 7,883 kg/ha 2024 down 3.3% rising
54 Czechoslovakia 7,445 kg/ha 1992 down 26.2% falling
55 Iraq 7,388 kg/ha 2024 down 21.1% falling
56 Bangladesh 6,779 kg/ha 2024 up 24.7% rising
57 Ukraine 6,667 kg/ha 2024 down 33.2% flat
58 Australia 6,257 kg/ha 2024 down 8.7% falling
59 Bulgaria 5,900 kg/ha 2024 down 57.4% flat
60 Australia and New Zealand 5,586 kg/ha 2024 down 10.9% falling
61 Costa Rica 5,399 kg/ha 2024 up 1.6% falling
62 Slovenia 5,333 kg/ha 2024 down 64.2% falling
63 New Zealand 3,999 kg/ha 2024 down 2.6% falling
64 Indonesia 3,855 kg/ha 2024 up 30.3% rising
65 Brunei Darussalam 3,762 kg/ha 2024 down 2.3% falling
66 Denmark 3,533 kg/ha 2024 down 64.4% volatile
67 Sweden 3,400 kg/ha 2024 down 76.2% falling
68 Antigua and Barbuda 2,284 kg/ha 2024 falling
69 Lithuania 2,000 kg/ha 2024 down 23.3% volatile
70 Philippines 1,993 kg/ha 2024 down 14.1% falling
71 Israel 1,507 kg/ha 2024 down 90.5% falling
72 Slovakia 1,238 kg/ha 2024 down 88.2% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Spinach — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
100 places, 4,875 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.