Wheat — Yield in Bulgaria
Bulgaria: Wheat — Yield was 5,931 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Bulgaria, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — yield in Bulgaria is 5,931 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is up 5.6% on the previous year and up 40.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Bulgaria peaked at 6,088 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 1,542 kg/ha, in 1961.
Bulgaria ranks 19th of 133 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,206 kg/ha | 1,542 kg/ha | 3,058 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,466 kg/ha | 2,990 kg/ha | 3,824 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,973 kg/ha | 2,875 kg/ha | 4,766 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,039 kg/ha | 1,882 kg/ha | 4,551 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,117 kg/ha | 2,197 kg/ha | 4,167 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,453 kg/ha | 3,618 kg/ha | 5,358 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,403 kg/ha | 4,039 kg/ha | 6,088 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Bulgaria
- Agriculture share gdp 2.47 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 2.47 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.7% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
- Rural population 25.8% (2025)
- Rural population growth -1.0% (2025)
- Rural population 1.66 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.24 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Bulgaria?
- Wheat — yield in Bulgaria was 5,931 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Bulgaria?
- The highest recorded value was 6,088 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Bulgaria?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,542 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Bulgaria rank for wheat — yield?
- Bulgaria ranks 19th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Bulgaria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 40.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Bulgaria 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.