Wheat — Yield in India
India: Wheat — Yield was 3,559 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in India, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — yield in India is 3,559 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.1% on the previous year and up 13.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in India peaked at 3,559 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 729.9 kg/ha, in 1964.
That places India 53rd out of 124 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in India, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 850.7 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 889.6 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1963 | 792.9 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1964 | 729.9 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1965 | 913.2 kg/ha | +25.1% |
| 1966 | 826.8 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 1967 | 887.4 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 1968 | 1,103 kg/ha | +24.3% |
| 1969 | 1,169 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1970 | 1,209 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1971 | 1,307 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1972 | 1,380 kg/ha | +5.6% |
| 1973 | 1,271 kg/ha | -7.9% |
| 1974 | 1,172 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1975 | 1,338 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 1976 | 1,410 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1977 | 1,387 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1978 | 1,480 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1979 | 1,568 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 1980 | 1,436 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1981 | 1,630 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 1982 | 1,691 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1983 | 1,816 kg/ha | +7.4% |
| 1984 | 1,843 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1985 | 1,870 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1986 | 2,046 kg/ha | +9.4% |
| 1987 | 1,916 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1988 | 2,002 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1989 | 2,244 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 1990 | 2,121 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 1991 | 2,281 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1992 | 2,394 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1993 | 2,327 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1994 | 2,380 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1995 | 2,559 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1996 | 2,483 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1997 | 2,679 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1998 | 2,485 kg/ha | -7.2% |
| 1999 | 2,590 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 2000 | 2,778 kg/ha | +7.3% |
| 2001 | 2,708 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2002 | 2,762 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2003 | 2,610 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2004 | 2,713 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2005 | 2,602 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 2006 | 2,619 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 2,708 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2008 | 2,802 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2009 | 2,907 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 2010 | 2,840 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 2011 | 2,989 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2012 | 3,178 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2013 | 3,154 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2014 | 3,146 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2015 | 2,750 kg/ha | -12.6% |
| 2016 | 3,034 kg/ha | +10.3% |
| 2017 | 3,200 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 2018 | 3,368 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2019 | 3,533 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2020 | 3,440 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2021 | 3,521 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2022 | 3,537 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 3,521 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2024 | 3,559 kg/ha | +1.1% |
India compared with similar countries
- India's 3,559 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,768 kg/ha, 1.3× the median. (25 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 906.9 kg/ha | 729.9 kg/ha | 1,169 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,352 kg/ha | 1,172 kg/ha | 1,568 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,849 kg/ha | 1,436 kg/ha | 2,244 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,430 kg/ha | 2,121 kg/ha | 2,679 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,721 kg/ha | 2,602 kg/ha | 2,907 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,119 kg/ha | 2,750 kg/ha | 3,533 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,516 kg/ha | 3,440 kg/ha | 3,559 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near India
More agriculture & rural data for India
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.83 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1623 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 438.73 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4067 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6431 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 16.2% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 16.2% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in India?
- Wheat — yield in India was 3,559 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in India?
- The highest recorded value was 3,559 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in India?
- The lowest recorded value was 729.9 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does India rank for wheat — yield?
- India ranks 53rd out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in India?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this India 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.