Spinach — Yield in New Zealand
New Zealand: Spinach — Yield was 3,999 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Spinach — Yield in New Zealand, 1975–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for spinach — yield in New Zealand is 3,999 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 0.6% on the previous year and down 2.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, spinach — yield in New Zealand peaked at 12,602 kg/ha in 1980 and was at its lowest, 3,928 kg/ha, in 2018.
That places New Zealand 63rd out of 72 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 50 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11,203 kg/ha | 9,194 kg/ha | 12,530 kg/ha | 5 |
| 1980s | 9,261 kg/ha | 6,357 kg/ha | 12,602 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 8,321 kg/ha | 6,667 kg/ha | 10,280 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,703 kg/ha | 4,359 kg/ha | 4,818 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,199 kg/ha | 3,928 kg/ha | 4,462 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,040 kg/ha | 3,999 kg/ha | 4,116 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near New Zealand
- 60 Australia and New Zealand 5,586 kg/ha compare
- 61 Costa Rica 5,399 kg/ha compare
- 62 Slovenia 5,333 kg/ha compare
- 64 Indonesia 3,855 kg/ha compare
- 65 Brunei Darussalam 3,762 kg/ha compare
- 66 Denmark 3,533 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for New Zealand
- Agriculture share gdp 4.01 (2023)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 4.01 (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 9.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
- Rural population 16.0% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.3% (2025)
- Rural population 852,066 (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.0% (2023)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 10.28 billion current US$ (2023)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 0 t (1998)
Frequently asked questions
- What is spinach — yield in New Zealand?
- Spinach — yield in New Zealand was 3,999 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest spinach — yield recorded in New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 12,602 kg/ha in 1980.
- What is the lowest spinach — yield recorded in New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,928 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does New Zealand rank for spinach — yield?
- New Zealand ranks 63rd out of 72 countries with data for 2024.
- Is spinach — yield rising or falling in New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is down 2.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Spinach — 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.