Wheat — Area harvested in Burundi
Burundi: Wheat — Area harvested was 11,453 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Area harvested in Burundi, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Burundi recorded 11,453 ha for wheat — area harvested in 2024.
The figure is down 6.5% on the previous year and up 17.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — area harvested in Burundi peaked at 20,668 ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 5,000 ha, in 1978.
That places Burundi 104th out of 133 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom 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 | 10,798 ha | 8,033 ha | 12,500 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 7,437 ha | 5,000 ha | 8,613 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,130 ha | 7,385 ha | 16,596 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,438 ha | 9,000 ha | 12,528 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 9,785 ha | 9,000 ha | 10,500 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12,885 ha | 7,645 ha | 20,668 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 11,077 ha | 5,729 ha | 13,089 ha | 5 |
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- 101 Palestine 12,761 ha compare
- 102 Luxembourg 12,710 ha compare
- 103 Cyprus 12,480 ha compare
- 105 Republic of Korea 9,536 ha compare
- 106 Democratic Republic of the Congo 8,000 ha compare
- 107 Lesotho 5,814 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Burundi
- Agriculture share gdp 34.29 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 34.29 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 2.0% (2023)
- Rural population 74.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.3% (2025)
- Rural population 10.69 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 34.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 1.15 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 1.21 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — area harvested in Burundi?
- Wheat — area harvested in Burundi was 11,453 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — area harvested recorded in Burundi?
- The highest recorded value was 20,668 ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest wheat — area harvested recorded in Burundi?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,000 ha in 1978.
- How does Burundi rank for wheat — area harvested?
- Burundi ranks 104th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — area harvested rising or falling in Burundi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Burundi data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Wheat — Area harvested. 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.