Wheat — Yield in Americas
Americas: Wheat — Yield was 3,281 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Americas, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Americas stood at 3,281 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 5.2% on the previous year and up 11.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Americas peaked at 3,508 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 1,298 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Americas 14th out of 26 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Americas, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,298 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,547 kg/ha | +19.2% |
| 1963 | 1,657 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1964 | 1,624 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1965 | 1,633 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1966 | 1,700 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1967 | 1,548 kg/ha | -9.0% |
| 1968 | 1,634 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1969 | 1,838 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1970 | 1,871 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1971 | 1,950 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1972 | 1,864 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1973 | 1,913 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1974 | 1,701 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 1975 | 1,870 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1976 | 1,932 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1977 | 1,883 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1978 | 1,972 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1979 | 1,955 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1980 | 1,981 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1981 | 2,110 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1982 | 2,217 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1983 | 2,280 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1984 | 2,274 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1985 | 2,194 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1986 | 2,197 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1987 | 2,266 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1988 | 1,922 kg/ha | -15.2% |
| 1989 | 2,067 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1990 | 2,416 kg/ha | +16.9% |
| 1991 | 2,275 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1992 | 2,442 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1993 | 2,400 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1994 | 2,394 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1995 | 2,319 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1996 | 2,413 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1997 | 2,513 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1998 | 2,638 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1999 | 2,723 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2000 | 2,666 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2001 | 2,422 kg/ha | -9.1% |
| 2002 | 2,183 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 2003 | 2,715 kg/ha | +24.3% |
| 2004 | 2,762 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2005 | 2,745 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2006 | 2,606 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2007 | 2,658 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2008 | 2,868 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 2009 | 2,883 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2010 | 3,117 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2011 | 3,012 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 2012 | 3,004 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2013 | 3,235 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 2014 | 2,931 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 2015 | 2,890 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2016 | 3,508 kg/ha | +21.4% |
| 2017 | 3,181 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 2018 | 3,205 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 3,323 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2020 | 3,263 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2021 | 2,954 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 2022 | 3,149 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 2023 | 3,118 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2024 | 3,281 kg/ha | +5.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,609 kg/ha | 1,298 kg/ha | 1,838 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,891 kg/ha | 1,701 kg/ha | 1,972 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,151 kg/ha | 1,922 kg/ha | 2,280 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,453 kg/ha | 2,275 kg/ha | 2,723 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,651 kg/ha | 2,183 kg/ha | 2,883 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,141 kg/ha | 2,890 kg/ha | 3,508 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,153 kg/ha | 2,954 kg/ha | 3,281 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 11 Belgium 6,625 kg/ha compare
- 11 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,201 kg/ha compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,125 kg/ha compare
- 12 Saudi Arabia 6,350 kg/ha compare
- 13 Sweden 6,169 kg/ha compare
- 13 Melanesia 673.2 kg/ha compare
- 14 Chile 6,002 kg/ha compare
- 15 France 5,974 kg/ha compare
- 16 Czechia 5,957 kg/ha compare
- 17 China, mainland 5,940 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Americas
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.8368 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.91 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.12 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 1.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Food — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 1.65 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 0.7578 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cabbages — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 0.7575 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 3.54 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -1.67 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Americas?
- Wheat — yield in Americas was 3,281 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 3,508 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,298 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Americas rank for wheat — yield?
- Americas ranks 14th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Wheat — 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.