Wheat — Yield in Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Wheat — Yield was 3,761 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Bangladesh, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Bangladesh stood at 3,761 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 7.6% on the previous year and up 24.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Bangladesh peaked at 3,761 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 573.8 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Bangladesh 48th out of 124 countries 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 Bangladesh, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 573.8 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 675.3 kg/ha | +17.7% |
| 1963 | 606.9 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1964 | 601.1 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1965 | 646.7 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1966 | 647.3 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1967 | 792.6 kg/ha | +22.4% |
| 1968 | 758 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 1969 | 796.4 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1970 | 874 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 1971 | 888 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1972 | 903.8 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1973 | 757.2 kg/ha | -16.2% |
| 1974 | 898.7 kg/ha | +18.7% |
| 1975 | 926 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 1976 | 1,454 kg/ha | +57.0% |
| 1977 | 1,621 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1978 | 1,842 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1979 | 1,866 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1980 | 1,899 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1981 | 1,848 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1982 | 1,811 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1983 | 2,109 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 1984 | 2,302 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1985 | 2,165 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1986 | 1,928 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1987 | 1,866 kg/ha | -3.2% |
| 1988 | 1,754 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1989 | 1,825 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1990 | 1,503 kg/ha | -17.6% |
| 1991 | 1,677 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1992 | 1,853 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1993 | 1,846 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1994 | 1,839 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1995 | 1,948 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1996 | 1,953 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1997 | 2,054 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1998 | 2,241 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1999 | 2,163 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2000 | 2,210 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2001 | 2,164 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2002 | 2,164 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 2,133 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2004 | 1,953 kg/ha | -8.4% |
| 2005 | 1,748 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 2006 | 1,534 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 2007 | 1,847 kg/ha | +20.4% |
| 2008 | 2,175 kg/ha | +17.8% |
| 2009 | 2,152 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2010 | 2,396 kg/ha | +11.4% |
| 2011 | 2,601 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 2012 | 2,779 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2013 | 3,014 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2014 | 3,032 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 3,086 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2016 | 3,031 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2017 | 3,158 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2018 | 3,130 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2019 | 3,078 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2020 | 3,097 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 3,300 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2022 | 3,450 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2023 | 3,495 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2024 | 3,761 kg/ha | +7.6% |
Bangladesh compared with similar countries
- Bangladesh's 3,761 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,768 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (25 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Bangladesh changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | +57.0% | 926 kg/ha | 1,454 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 677.57 kg/ha | 573.8 kg/ha | 796.4 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,203 kg/ha | 757.2 kg/ha | 1,866 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,951 kg/ha | 1,754 kg/ha | 2,302 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,908 kg/ha | 1,503 kg/ha | 2,241 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,008 kg/ha | 1,534 kg/ha | 2,210 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,930 kg/ha | 2,396 kg/ha | 3,158 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,420 kg/ha | 3,097 kg/ha | 3,761 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Bangladesh
More agriculture & rural data for Bangladesh
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.73 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1142 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 296.72 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.38 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6676 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 11.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 11.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2018)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 6.0% (2018)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Bangladesh?
- Wheat — yield in Bangladesh was 3,761 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Bangladesh?
- The highest recorded value was 3,761 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Bangladesh?
- The lowest recorded value was 573.8 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Bangladesh rank for wheat — yield?
- Bangladesh ranks 48th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Bangladesh?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Bangladesh 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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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.