Wheat — Yield in Europe
Europe: Wheat — Yield was 4,213 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Europe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — yield in Europe is 4,213 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of down 4.4% on the previous year and down 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Europe peaked at 4,514 kg/ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 1,100 kg/ha, in 1963.
Europe ranks 6th of 31 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,406 kg/ha | 1,100 kg/ha | 1,674 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,950 kg/ha | 1,595 kg/ha | 2,335 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,438 kg/ha | 2,000 kg/ha | 2,856 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,184 kg/ha | 2,801 kg/ha | 3,407 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,550 kg/ha | 3,240 kg/ha | 4,025 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,997 kg/ha | 3,553 kg/ha | 4,402 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,311 kg/ha | 4,141 kg/ha | 4,514 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Europe
- 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
- 7 Namibia 7,066 kg/ha compare
- 8 Denmark 7,040 kg/ha compare
- 9 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 6,971 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Europe
- Bananas — Area harvested 21,030 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 63,355 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 22.48 million t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 56,412 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 398,589 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 137,267 t (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 177.78 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Production 663,560 t (2024)
- Milk, Total — Milk Animals 69.42 million An (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Production 77.67 million t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Europe?
- Wheat — yield in Europe was 4,213 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 4,514 kg/ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,100 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Europe rank for wheat — yield?
- Europe ranks 6th out of 31 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this 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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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.