Wheat — Yield in Cameroon
Cameroon: Wheat — Yield was 1,337 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Cameroon, 1976–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Cameroon recorded 1,337 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of up 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Cameroon peaked at 1,778 kg/ha in 1983 and was at its lowest, 314 kg/ha, in 1977.
That places Cameroon 116th out of 133 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 49 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 543.5 kg/ha | 314 kg/ha | 866.7 kg/ha | 4 |
| 1980s | 1,259 kg/ha | 793.1 kg/ha | 1,778 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,338 kg/ha | 1,304 kg/ha | 1,500 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,341 kg/ha | 1,336 kg/ha | 1,347 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,330 kg/ha | 1,231 kg/ha | 1,397 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,337 kg/ha | 1,337 kg/ha | 1,337 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
- 113 Morocco 1,388 kg/ha compare
- 114 United Republic of Tanzania 1,376 kg/ha compare
- 115 Ethiopia PDR 1,350 kg/ha compare
- 117 Rwanda 1,272 kg/ha compare
- 118 Mongolia 1,250 kg/ha compare
- 119 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,201 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Cameroon
- Agriculture share gdp 16.85 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 16.85 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 14.9% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
- Rural population 44.3% (2025)
- Rural population growth 2.0% (2025)
- Rural population 13.25 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 16.8% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 805,353 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Cameroon?
- Wheat — yield in Cameroon was 1,337 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 1,778 kg/ha in 1983.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 314 kg/ha in 1977.
- How does Cameroon rank for wheat — yield?
- Cameroon ranks 116th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon 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.