Wheat — Yield in China, mainland
China, mainland: Wheat — Yield was 5,940 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in China, mainland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
China, mainland recorded 5,940 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.7% on the previous year and up 13.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in China, mainland peaked at 5,940 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 557.8 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places China, mainland 17th out of 124 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in China, mainland, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 557.8 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 692.9 kg/ha | +24.2% |
| 1963 | 778 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1964 | 821.1 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1965 | 1,022 kg/ha | +24.4% |
| 1966 | 1,058 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1967 | 1,127 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1968 | 1,115 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1969 | 1,086 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1970 | 1,148 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1971 | 1,272 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1972 | 1,370 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1973 | 1,334 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1974 | 1,512 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 1975 | 1,640 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1976 | 1,775 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1977 | 1,465 kg/ha | -17.5% |
| 1978 | 1,845 kg/ha | +25.9% |
| 1979 | 2,140 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 1980 | 1,891 kg/ha | -11.6% |
| 1981 | 2,109 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1982 | 2,452 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 1983 | 2,802 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 1984 | 2,969 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1985 | 2,937 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1986 | 3,040 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1987 | 2,983 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1988 | 2,968 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1989 | 3,043 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1990 | 3,194 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1991 | 3,100 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1992 | 3,331 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1993 | 3,519 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1994 | 3,426 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1995 | 3,542 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1996 | 3,734 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1997 | 4,102 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1998 | 3,685 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 1999 | 3,947 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2000 | 3,738 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2001 | 3,806 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2002 | 3,777 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2003 | 3,932 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2004 | 4,252 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 2005 | 4,275 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 4,594 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2007 | 4,608 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 4,762 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2009 | 4,739 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2010 | 4,749 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 4,838 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2012 | 4,987 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2013 | 5,056 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 5,244 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2015 | 5,393 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2016 | 5,396 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 5,484 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2018 | 5,417 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2019 | 5,630 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2020 | 5,742 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2021 | 5,811 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2022 | 5,855 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2023 | 5,781 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2024 | 5,940 kg/ha | +2.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 917.4 kg/ha | 557.8 kg/ha | 1,127 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,550 kg/ha | 1,148 kg/ha | 2,140 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,719 kg/ha | 1,891 kg/ha | 3,043 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,558 kg/ha | 3,100 kg/ha | 4,102 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,248 kg/ha | 3,738 kg/ha | 4,762 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,219 kg/ha | 4,749 kg/ha | 5,630 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,826 kg/ha | 5,742 kg/ha | 5,940 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in China, mainland?
- Wheat — yield in China, mainland was 5,940 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The highest recorded value was 5,940 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The lowest recorded value was 557.8 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does China, mainland rank for wheat — yield?
- China, mainland ranks 17th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in China, mainland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China, mainland 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.