Wheat — Yield in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe: Wheat — Yield was 3,658 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Eastern Europe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Eastern Europe recorded 3,658 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.2% on the previous year and up 14.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Eastern Europe peaked at 3,841 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 817.5 kg/ha, in 1963.
Eastern Europe ranks 9th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Eastern Europe, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,065 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,055 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1963 | 817.5 kg/ha | -22.5% |
| 1964 | 1,096 kg/ha | +34.0% |
| 1965 | 933.8 kg/ha | -14.8% |
| 1966 | 1,426 kg/ha | +52.7% |
| 1967 | 1,220 kg/ha | -14.5% |
| 1968 | 1,412 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 1969 | 1,276 kg/ha | -9.6% |
| 1970 | 1,518 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 1971 | 1,595 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 1972 | 1,559 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1973 | 1,789 kg/ha | +14.8% |
| 1974 | 1,530 kg/ha | -14.5% |
| 1975 | 1,202 kg/ha | -21.4% |
| 1976 | 1,740 kg/ha | +44.8% |
| 1977 | 1,613 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 1978 | 1,990 kg/ha | +23.4% |
| 1979 | 1,619 kg/ha | -18.6% |
| 1980 | 1,720 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 1981 | 1,508 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 1982 | 1,642 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1983 | 1,704 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1984 | 1,645 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1985 | 1,734 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1986 | 2,034 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 1987 | 1,971 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1988 | 2,011 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1989 | 2,182 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1990 | 2,421 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1991 | 1,915 kg/ha | -20.9% |
| 1992 | 2,362 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 1993 | 2,358 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1994 | 2,116 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1995 | 2,168 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1996 | 1,978 kg/ha | -8.8% |
| 1997 | 2,369 kg/ha | +19.8% |
| 1998 | 2,090 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1999 | 2,096 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2000 | 2,016 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2001 | 2,596 kg/ha | +28.8% |
| 2002 | 2,491 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 2003 | 2,115 kg/ha | -15.1% |
| 2004 | 2,679 kg/ha | +26.7% |
| 2005 | 2,468 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 2006 | 2,344 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 2007 | 2,347 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 3,015 kg/ha | +28.5% |
| 2009 | 2,704 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 2010 | 2,449 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 2011 | 2,828 kg/ha | +15.5% |
| 2012 | 2,360 kg/ha | -16.5% |
| 2013 | 2,864 kg/ha | +21.4% |
| 2014 | 3,206 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 2015 | 3,093 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 2016 | 3,322 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 2017 | 3,645 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 2018 | 3,255 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 2019 | 3,347 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2020 | 3,388 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2021 | 3,513 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2022 | 3,841 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 2023 | 3,779 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2024 | 3,658 kg/ha | -3.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,144 kg/ha | 817.5 kg/ha | 1,426 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,615 kg/ha | 1,202 kg/ha | 1,990 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,815 kg/ha | 1,508 kg/ha | 2,182 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,187 kg/ha | 1,915 kg/ha | 2,421 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,477 kg/ha | 2,016 kg/ha | 3,015 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,037 kg/ha | 2,360 kg/ha | 3,645 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,636 kg/ha | 3,388 kg/ha | 3,841 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Eastern Europe
- 6 Germany 7,084 kg/ha compare
- 6 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2,592 kg/ha compare
- 7 Namibia 7,066 kg/ha compare
- 7 Syrian Arab Republic 1,905 kg/ha compare
- 8 Denmark 7,040 kg/ha compare
- 9 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 1,441 kg/ha compare
- 9 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 6,971 kg/ha compare
- 10 Egypt 6,778 kg/ha compare
- 10 United Republic of Tanzania 1,376 kg/ha compare
- 11 Belgium 6,625 kg/ha compare
- 11 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,201 kg/ha compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,125 kg/ha compare
- 12 Saudi Arabia 6,350 kg/ha compare
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- Tomatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) 2.06 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross 4.41 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 2.02 % change on previous year (2024)
- Vegetables and Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant) -5.08 % change on previous year (2024)
- Roots and Tubers, Total — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -3.11 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -0.646 % change on previous year (2024)
- Crops — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) -5.97 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Eastern Europe?
- Wheat — yield in Eastern Europe was 3,658 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Eastern Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 3,841 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Eastern Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 817.5 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Eastern Europe rank for wheat — yield?
- Eastern Europe ranks 9th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Eastern Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eastern Europe 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.