Wheat — Yield in Ecuador
Ecuador: Wheat — Yield was 2,396 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Ecuador, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Ecuador recorded 2,396 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 143.1% on the previous year and up 113.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Ecuador peaked at 2,396 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 569.6 kg/ha, in 1991.
Ecuador ranks 88th of 133 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 896.1 kg/ha | 668.1 kg/ha | 1,044 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 966.48 kg/ha | 850 kg/ha | 1,075 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 947.37 kg/ha | 666.5 kg/ha | 1,166 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 650.35 kg/ha | 569.6 kg/ha | 796.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 733 kg/ha | 569.6 kg/ha | 861.7 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,134 kg/ha | 706.4 kg/ha | 1,714 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,813 kg/ha | 985.4 kg/ha | 2,396 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Ecuador
- 85 Palestine 2,571 kg/ha compare
- 86 China, Taiwan Province of 2,500 kg/ha compare
- 87 Madagascar 2,407 kg/ha compare
- 89 Qatar 2,369 kg/ha compare
- 90 Afghanistan 2,261 kg/ha compare
- 91 Jordan 2,204 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Ecuador
- Agriculture share gdp 9.7 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.7 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.7% (2024)
- Rural population 36.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.4% (2025)
- Rural population 6.70 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.7% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 12.64 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 7.59 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Ecuador?
- Wheat — yield in Ecuador was 2,396 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 2,396 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 569.6 kg/ha in 1991.
- How does Ecuador rank for wheat — yield?
- Ecuador ranks 88th out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 113.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.