Wheat — Yield in Eastern Asia
Eastern Asia: Wheat — Yield was 5,848 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Eastern Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Eastern Asia stood at 5,848 kg/ha. 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 12.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Eastern Asia peaked at 5,848 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 614.7 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Eastern Asia 3rd out of 26 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Eastern Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 614.7 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 746.7 kg/ha | +21.5% |
| 1963 | 791.1 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1964 | 857.4 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 1965 | 1,050 kg/ha | +22.5% |
| 1966 | 1,077 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1967 | 1,146 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1968 | 1,133 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1969 | 1,094 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1970 | 1,151 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1971 | 1,277 kg/ha | +10.9% |
| 1972 | 1,364 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 1973 | 1,334 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1974 | 1,506 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 1975 | 1,637 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1976 | 1,766 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1977 | 1,462 kg/ha | -17.2% |
| 1978 | 1,833 kg/ha | +25.4% |
| 1979 | 2,123 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 1980 | 1,880 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1981 | 2,092 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1982 | 2,434 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 1983 | 2,781 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 1984 | 2,937 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1985 | 2,915 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 1986 | 3,015 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1987 | 2,951 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1988 | 2,943 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1989 | 3,013 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1990 | 3,158 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1991 | 3,060 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1992 | 3,285 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1993 | 3,470 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1994 | 3,383 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1995 | 3,499 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1996 | 3,691 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1997 | 4,059 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 1998 | 3,651 kg/ha | -10.0% |
| 1999 | 3,910 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 2000 | 3,712 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2001 | 3,777 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2002 | 3,747 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2003 | 3,899 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2004 | 4,218 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 2005 | 4,243 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 4,562 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2007 | 4,580 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 4,729 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2009 | 4,687 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2010 | 4,690 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 4,779 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2012 | 4,931 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2013 | 4,996 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2014 | 5,186 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2015 | 5,310 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2016 | 5,318 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 5,417 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2018 | 5,344 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2019 | 5,553 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2020 | 5,655 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2021 | 5,718 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2022 | 5,757 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2023 | 5,695 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 2024 | 5,848 kg/ha | +2.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 945.69 kg/ha | 614.7 kg/ha | 1,146 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,545 kg/ha | 1,151 kg/ha | 2,123 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,696 kg/ha | 1,880 kg/ha | 3,015 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,517 kg/ha | 3,060 kg/ha | 4,059 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,216 kg/ha | 3,712 kg/ha | 4,729 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 5,152 kg/ha | 4,690 kg/ha | 5,553 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 5,734 kg/ha | 5,655 kg/ha | 5,848 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Asia
- 1 New Zealand 10,014 kg/ha compare
- 2 Ireland 8,140 kg/ha compare
- 2 Republic of Moldova 3,244 kg/ha compare
- 3 Belgium-Luxembourg 8,096 kg/ha compare
- 3 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 3,078 kg/ha compare
- 4 Türkiye 3,004 kg/ha compare
- 4 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 7,281 kg/ha compare
- 5 Zambia 7,090 kg/ha compare
- 6 Germany 7,084 kg/ha compare
- 6 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2,592 kg/ha compare
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- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -1.46 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.9519 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.7992 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.8516 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.8101 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cereals, primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.33 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.4424 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Eastern Asia?
- Wheat — yield in Eastern Asia was 5,848 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Eastern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 5,848 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Eastern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 614.7 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Eastern Asia rank for wheat — yield?
- Eastern Asia ranks 3rd out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Eastern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Asia 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.