Wheat — Yield in Brazil
Brazil: Wheat — Yield was 2,613 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Brazil, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Brazil recorded 2,613 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 12.6% on the previous year and up 18.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Brazil peaked at 3,266 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 423.7 kg/ha, in 1972.
That places Brazil 79th 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 Brazil, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 533 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 949.1 kg/ha | +78.1% |
| 1963 | 494.5 kg/ha | -47.9% |
| 1964 | 876.5 kg/ha | +77.2% |
| 1965 | 763.6 kg/ha | -12.9% |
| 1966 | 857.3 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1967 | 757.4 kg/ha | -11.7% |
| 1968 | 882.5 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 1969 | 976.2 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 1970 | 973.1 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1971 | 886.5 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1972 | 423.7 kg/ha | -52.2% |
| 1973 | 1,104 kg/ha | +160.7% |
| 1974 | 1,157 kg/ha | +4.7% |
| 1975 | 610 kg/ha | -47.3% |
| 1976 | 908.4 kg/ha | +48.9% |
| 1977 | 655.2 kg/ha | -27.9% |
| 1978 | 957.2 kg/ha | +46.1% |
| 1979 | 764.1 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 1980 | 865.3 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 1981 | 1,151 kg/ha | +33.0% |
| 1982 | 646 kg/ha | -43.9% |
| 1983 | 1,190 kg/ha | +84.3% |
| 1984 | 1,139 kg/ha | -4.3% |
| 1985 | 1,614 kg/ha | +41.7% |
| 1986 | 1,447 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 1987 | 1,765 kg/ha | +22.0% |
| 1988 | 1,653 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1989 | 1,692 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1990 | 1,154 kg/ha | -31.8% |
| 1991 | 1,423 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 1992 | 1,430 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1993 | 1,482 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1994 | 1,554 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1995 | 1,542 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1996 | 1,833 kg/ha | +18.9% |
| 1997 | 1,636 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1998 | 1,611 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1999 | 1,970 kg/ha | +22.3% |
| 2000 | 1,516 kg/ha | -23.1% |
| 2001 | 1,949 kg/ha | +28.6% |
| 2002 | 1,475 kg/ha | -24.3% |
| 2003 | 2,404 kg/ha | +62.9% |
| 2004 | 2,073 kg/ha | -13.8% |
| 2005 | 1,974 kg/ha | -4.8% |
| 2006 | 1,593 kg/ha | -19.3% |
| 2007 | 2,220 kg/ha | +39.4% |
| 2008 | 2,550 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 2009 | 2,080 kg/ha | -18.4% |
| 2010 | 2,829 kg/ha | +36.0% |
| 2011 | 2,660 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2012 | 2,310 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 2013 | 2,749 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 2014 | 2,209 kg/ha | -19.7% |
| 2015 | 2,228 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 2016 | 3,155 kg/ha | +41.6% |
| 2017 | 2,279 kg/ha | -27.8% |
| 2018 | 2,629 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 2019 | 2,658 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 2,608 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2021 | 2,862 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 2022 | 3,266 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 2023 | 2,321 kg/ha | -28.9% |
| 2024 | 2,613 kg/ha | +12.6% |
Brazil compared with similar countries
- Brazil's 2,613 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 2,753 kg/ha, 95% of the median. (29 countries reporting)
- Brazil's 2,613 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 2,753 kg/ha, 95% of the median. (11 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Brazil 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | +160.7% | 423.7 kg/ha | 1,104 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 787.79 kg/ha | 494.5 kg/ha | 976.2 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 843.94 kg/ha | 423.7 kg/ha | 1,157 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,316 kg/ha | 646 kg/ha | 1,765 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,564 kg/ha | 1,154 kg/ha | 1,970 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,983 kg/ha | 1,475 kg/ha | 2,550 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,571 kg/ha | 2,209 kg/ha | 3,155 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,734 kg/ha | 2,321 kg/ha | 3,266 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Brazil
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.36 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0609 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 652.04 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.95 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1182 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 6.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 6.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 5.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Brazil?
- Wheat — yield in Brazil was 2,613 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 3,266 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 423.7 kg/ha in 1972.
- How does Brazil rank for wheat — yield?
- Brazil ranks 79th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Brazil 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.