Vegetables Primary — Yield in New Zealand
New Zealand: Vegetables Primary — Yield was 25,858 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Vegetables Primary — Yield in New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for vegetables primary — yield in New Zealand is 25,858 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 1.8% on the previous year and up 11.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, vegetables primary — yield in New Zealand peaked at 26,069 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 8,667 kg/ha, in 1987.
That places New Zealand 51st out of 207 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14,451 kg/ha | 13,428 kg/ha | 15,590 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 14,067 kg/ha | 13,116 kg/ha | 15,110 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 13,180 kg/ha | 8,667 kg/ha | 17,083 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 19,249 kg/ha | 13,928 kg/ha | 23,400 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 21,598 kg/ha | 20,021 kg/ha | 23,599 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 23,396 kg/ha | 20,888 kg/ha | 25,892 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 25,703 kg/ha | 25,332 kg/ha | 26,069 kg/ha | 5 |
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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 vegetables primary — yield in New Zealand?
- Vegetables primary — yield in New Zealand was 25,858 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest vegetables primary — yield recorded in New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 26,069 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest vegetables primary — yield recorded in New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,667 kg/ha in 1987.
- How does New Zealand rank for vegetables primary — yield?
- New Zealand ranks 51st out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
- Is vegetables primary — yield rising or falling in New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Vegetables Primary — 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.