Wheat — Yield in Bhutan
Bhutan: Wheat — Yield was 1,124 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Bhutan, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — yield in Bhutan is 1,124 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.9% on the previous year and down 49.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Bhutan peaked at 2,669 kg/ha in 2011 and was at its lowest, 638.6 kg/ha, in 1989.
That places Bhutan 114th out of 124 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.
Wheat — Yield in Bhutan, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,020 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,020 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,020 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1964 | 1,019 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1965 | 1,019 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1966 | 1,018 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1967 | 1,018 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1968 | 1,017 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1969 | 1,016 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1970 | 1,016 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1971 | 1,015 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1972 | 1,015 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1973 | 1,014 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1974 | 1,014 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1975 | 1,014 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1976 | 1,013 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1977 | 1,000 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1978 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 1,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 1,094 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1982 | 1,053 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1983 | 1,100 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1984 | 1,137 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1985 | 1,000 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 1986 | 916.7 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1987 | 800 kg/ha | -12.7% |
| 1988 | 639.6 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1989 | 638.6 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1990 | 769.2 kg/ha | +20.5% |
| 1991 | 833.3 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1992 | 909.1 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1993 | 1,167 kg/ha | +28.3% |
| 1994 | 1,250 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1995 | 1,300 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 1996 | 1,417 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 1997 | 1,538 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1998 | 1,538 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 1,538 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 945.7 kg/ha | -38.5% |
| 2001 | 1,000 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2002 | 1,127 kg/ha | +12.7% |
| 2003 | 1,424 kg/ha | +26.4% |
| 2004 | 1,366 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 2005 | 1,275 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 2006 | 1,348 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2007 | 1,292 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 2008 | 1,766 kg/ha | +36.6% |
| 2009 | 1,437 kg/ha | -18.6% |
| 2010 | 2,164 kg/ha | +50.6% |
| 2011 | 2,669 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 2012 | 2,247 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 2013 | 2,339 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2014 | 2,234 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2015 | 1,902 kg/ha | -14.9% |
| 2016 | 1,675 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 2017 | 1,824 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2018 | 1,268 kg/ha | -30.5% |
| 2019 | 1,313 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 2020 | 1,632 kg/ha | +24.3% |
| 2021 | 1,262 kg/ha | -22.7% |
| 2022 | 1,075 kg/ha | -14.8% |
| 2023 | 1,146 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2024 | 1,124 kg/ha | -1.9% |
Bhutan compared with similar countries
- Bhutan's 1,124 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,768 kg/ha, 41% of the median. (25 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Bhutan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | +50.6% | 1,437 kg/ha | 2,164 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,019 kg/ha | 1,016 kg/ha | 1,020 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,010 kg/ha | 1,000 kg/ha | 1,016 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 937.82 kg/ha | 638.6 kg/ha | 1,137 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,226 kg/ha | 769.2 kg/ha | 1,538 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,298 kg/ha | 945.7 kg/ha | 1,766 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,963 kg/ha | 1,268 kg/ha | 2,669 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,248 kg/ha | 1,075 kg/ha | 1,632 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Bhutan
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 3.41 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1368 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 614.64 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.8653 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.5657 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 13.7% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 13.7% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Bhutan?
- Wheat — yield in Bhutan was 1,124 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The highest recorded value was 2,669 kg/ha in 2011.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Bhutan?
- The lowest recorded value was 638.6 kg/ha in 1989.
- How does Bhutan rank for wheat — yield?
- Bhutan ranks 114th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Bhutan?
- Over the last ten years it is down 49.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Bhutan 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.