Wheat — Area harvested in Oceania
Oceania: Wheat — Area harvested was 13.11 million ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Area harvested in Oceania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — area harvested in Oceania is 13.11 million ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 24.3% on the previous year and up 5.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — area harvested in Oceania peaked at 13.95 million ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 6.03 million ha, in 1961.
Oceania ranks 13th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Area harvested in Oceania, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 6.03 million ha | — |
| 1962 | 6.74 million ha | +11.7% |
| 1963 | 6.76 million ha | +0.3% |
| 1964 | 7.33 million ha | +8.5% |
| 1965 | 7.16 million ha | -2.3% |
| 1966 | 8.51 million ha | +18.8% |
| 1967 | 9.17 million ha | +7.8% |
| 1968 | 10.97 million ha | +19.6% |
| 1969 | 9.62 million ha | -12.4% |
| 1970 | 6.59 million ha | -31.5% |
| 1971 | 7.24 million ha | +9.8% |
| 1972 | 7.71 million ha | +6.6% |
| 1973 | 9.06 million ha | +17.4% |
| 1974 | 8.37 million ha | -7.5% |
| 1975 | 8.61 million ha | +2.8% |
| 1976 | 9.06 million ha | +5.2% |
| 1977 | 10.05 million ha | +10.9% |
| 1978 | 10.34 million ha | +2.9% |
| 1979 | 11.24 million ha | +8.7% |
| 1980 | 11.37 million ha | +1.2% |
| 1981 | 11.97 million ha | +5.3% |
| 1982 | 11.59 million ha | -3.1% |
| 1983 | 13.00 million ha | +12.2% |
| 1984 | 12.15 million ha | -6.6% |
| 1985 | 11.75 million ha | -3.2% |
| 1986 | 11.23 million ha | -4.5% |
| 1987 | 9.09 million ha | -19.0% |
| 1988 | 8.88 million ha | -2.3% |
| 1989 | 9.04 million ha | +1.9% |
| 1990 | 9.26 million ha | +2.4% |
| 1991 | 7.22 million ha | -22.0% |
| 1992 | 8.31 million ha | +15.1% |
| 1993 | 8.42 million ha | +1.3% |
| 1994 | 7.94 million ha | -5.8% |
| 1995 | 9.27 million ha | +16.9% |
| 1996 | 10.99 million ha | +18.5% |
| 1997 | 10.50 million ha | -4.5% |
| 1998 | 11.59 million ha | +10.4% |
| 1999 | 12.39 million ha | +6.9% |
| 2000 | 12.19 million ha | -1.6% |
| 2001 | 11.58 million ha | -5.0% |
| 2002 | 11.21 million ha | -3.2% |
| 2003 | 13.11 million ha | +16.9% |
| 2004 | 13.44 million ha | +2.5% |
| 2005 | 12.48 million ha | -7.1% |
| 2006 | 11.84 million ha | -5.2% |
| 2007 | 12.62 million ha | +6.6% |
| 2008 | 13.57 million ha | +7.6% |
| 2009 | 13.93 million ha | +2.7% |
| 2010 | 13.56 million ha | -2.7% |
| 2011 | 13.95 million ha | +2.9% |
| 2012 | 13.03 million ha | -6.6% |
| 2013 | 12.66 million ha | -2.9% |
| 2014 | 12.43 million ha | -1.8% |
| 2015 | 11.33 million ha | -8.9% |
| 2016 | 12.24 million ha | +8.0% |
| 2017 | 10.96 million ha | -10.5% |
| 2018 | 10.44 million ha | -4.7% |
| 2019 | 9.91 million ha | -5.1% |
| 2020 | 12.69 million ha | +28.1% |
| 2021 | 12.77 million ha | +0.7% |
| 2022 | 12.97 million ha | +1.5% |
| 2023 | 10.55 million ha | -18.7% |
| 2024 | 13.11 million ha | +24.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8.03 million ha | 6.03 million ha | 10.97 million ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8.83 million ha | 6.59 million ha | 11.24 million ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 11.01 million ha | 8.88 million ha | 13.00 million ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 9.59 million ha | 7.22 million ha | 12.39 million ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 12.60 million ha | 11.21 million ha | 13.93 million ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 12.05 million ha | 9.91 million ha | 13.95 million ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 12.42 million ha | 10.55 million ha | 13.11 million ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Oceania
- 10 Pakistan 9.73 million ha compare
- 11 Argentina 6.34 million ha compare
- 11 Democratic Republic of the Congo 8,000 ha compare
- 12 Ukraine 4.88 million ha compare
- 12 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 330 ha compare
- 13 France 4.45 million ha compare
- 13 Melanesia 43 ha compare
- 14 Brazil 2.92 million ha compare
- 15 Germany 2.62 million ha compare
- 16 Poland 2.39 million ha compare
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- Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs — Yield/Carcass Weight, annual 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw hides and skins of sheep or lambs — Production, annual growth rate 8.06 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Production, annual growth rate 1.64 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sheep — Stocks, annual growth rate 6.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw milk of cattle — Milk Animals, annual growth rate 0.0734 % change on previous year (2024)
- Raw hides and skins of cattle — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual 11.04 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — area harvested in Oceania?
- Wheat — area harvested in Oceania was 13.11 million ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — area harvested recorded in Oceania?
- The highest recorded value was 13.95 million ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest wheat — area harvested recorded in Oceania?
- The lowest recorded value was 6.03 million ha in 1961.
- How does Oceania rank for wheat — area harvested?
- Oceania ranks 13th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — area harvested rising or falling in Oceania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Oceania 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.