Wheat — Yield in Belgium
Belgium: Wheat — Yield was 6,625 kg/ha in 2024. ▬ Flat
Wheat — Yield in Belgium, 2000–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Belgium recorded 6,625 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 25 years on record.
The figure is down 21.4% on the previous year and down 29.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Belgium peaked at 10,015 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 6,625 kg/ha, in 2024.
Belgium ranks 11th of 124 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Wheat — Yield in Belgium, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7,920 kg/ha | — |
| 2001 | 8,048 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2002 | 8,276 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2003 | 8,579 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2004 | 8,981 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 2005 | 8,273 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2006 | 8,255 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2007 | 7,891 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2008 | 8,758 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 2009 | 9,465 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2010 | 8,827 kg/ha | -6.7% |
| 2011 | 8,405 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2012 | 8,452 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2013 | 8,935 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2014 | 9,413 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2015 | 10,015 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2016 | 6,787 kg/ha | -32.2% |
| 2017 | 8,617 kg/ha | +27.0% |
| 2018 | 8,492 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2019 | 9,336 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 2020 | 8,946 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2021 | 7,788 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 2022 | 9,057 kg/ha | +16.3% |
| 2023 | 8,425 kg/ha | -7.0% |
| 2024 | 6,625 kg/ha | -21.4% |
Belgium compared with similar countries
- Belgium's 6,625 kg/ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 4,807 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (41 countries reporting)
- Belgium's 6,625 kg/ha is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 4,432 kg/ha, 1.5× the median. (42 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 8,444 kg/ha | 7,891 kg/ha | 9,465 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 8,728 kg/ha | 6,787 kg/ha | 10,015 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,168 kg/ha | 6,625 kg/ha | 9,057 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Belgium
- 8 Denmark 7,040 kg/ha compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,441 kg/ha compare
- 9 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 6,971 kg/ha compare
- 10 Egypt 6,778 kg/ha compare
- 10 United Republic of Tanzania 1,376 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
More agriculture & rural data for Belgium
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -0.3325 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0073 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 443.58 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2138 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1233 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.2% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Belgium?
- Wheat — yield in Belgium was 6,625 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 10,015 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 6,625 kg/ha in 2024.
- How does Belgium rank for wheat — yield?
- Belgium ranks 11th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is down 29.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Belgium 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.