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 31 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.
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
- 3 Belgium-Luxembourg 8,096 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
More agriculture & rural data for Eastern Asia
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 454.78 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 2.38 million t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 1.10 million ha (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 325,506 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 12.10 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 62.75 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 56,071 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 1.12 million ha (2024)
- Sheep fat, unrendered — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 207.44 million An (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Production 283.96 million t (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 31 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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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.