Wheat — Yield in Israel
Israel: Wheat — Yield was 1,676 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Israel, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Israel stood at 1,676 kg/ha.
The figure is down 41.1% on the previous year and down 26.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Israel peaked at 3,844 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 456.4 kg/ha, in 1999.
Israel ranks 97th of 124 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Israel, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,048 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,086 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1963 | 1,045 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1964 | 2,266 kg/ha | +116.8% |
| 1965 | 2,084 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1966 | 1,316 kg/ha | -36.8% |
| 1967 | 2,366 kg/ha | +79.7% |
| 1968 | 1,715 kg/ha | -27.5% |
| 1969 | 1,382 kg/ha | -19.4% |
| 1970 | 1,164 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 1971 | 1,766 kg/ha | +51.8% |
| 1972 | 2,773 kg/ha | +57.0% |
| 1973 | 2,400 kg/ha | -13.4% |
| 1974 | 2,454 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1975 | 2,328 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 1976 | 1,899 kg/ha | -18.4% |
| 1977 | 2,118 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 1978 | 1,921 kg/ha | -9.3% |
| 1979 | 1,556 kg/ha | -19.0% |
| 1980 | 2,594 kg/ha | +66.6% |
| 1981 | 2,070 kg/ha | -20.2% |
| 1982 | 1,641 kg/ha | -20.7% |
| 1983 | 3,265 kg/ha | +99.0% |
| 1984 | 1,505 kg/ha | -53.9% |
| 1985 | 1,552 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1986 | 1,866 kg/ha | +20.2% |
| 1987 | 3,140 kg/ha | +68.3% |
| 1988 | 2,393 kg/ha | -23.8% |
| 1989 | 2,197 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1990 | 3,203 kg/ha | +45.8% |
| 1991 | 2,133 kg/ha | -33.4% |
| 1992 | 2,892 kg/ha | +35.6% |
| 1993 | 2,718 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1994 | 1,316 kg/ha | -51.6% |
| 1995 | 3,037 kg/ha | +130.8% |
| 1996 | 2,285 kg/ha | -24.8% |
| 1997 | 1,406 kg/ha | -38.5% |
| 1998 | 1,808 kg/ha | +28.6% |
| 1999 | 456.4 kg/ha | -74.8% |
| 2000 | 1,465 kg/ha | +221.1% |
| 2001 | 1,943 kg/ha | +32.6% |
| 2002 | 2,116 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2003 | 2,531 kg/ha | +19.6% |
| 2004 | 2,188 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 2005 | 2,346 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 2006 | 1,545 kg/ha | -34.1% |
| 2007 | 1,850 kg/ha | +19.7% |
| 2008 | 1,146 kg/ha | -38.1% |
| 2009 | 2,065 kg/ha | +80.2% |
| 2010 | 1,751 kg/ha | -15.2% |
| 2011 | 2,340 kg/ha | +33.7% |
| 2012 | 3,267 kg/ha | +39.6% |
| 2013 | 2,784 kg/ha | -14.8% |
| 2014 | 2,270 kg/ha | -18.5% |
| 2015 | 3,406 kg/ha | +50.1% |
| 2016 | 3,844 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 2017 | 1,612 kg/ha | -58.1% |
| 2018 | 1,333 kg/ha | -17.3% |
| 2019 | 2,052 kg/ha | +54.0% |
| 2020 | 2,301 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 2021 | 1,335 kg/ha | -42.0% |
| 2022 | 3,600 kg/ha | +169.8% |
| 2023 | 2,843 kg/ha | -21.0% |
| 2024 | 1,676 kg/ha | -41.1% |
Israel compared with similar countries
- Israel's 1,676 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 4,807 kg/ha, 35% of the median. (41 countries reporting)
- Israel's 1,676 kg/ha is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 2,571 kg/ha, 65% of the median. (19 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Israel changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | +221.1% | 456.4 kg/ha | 1,465 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,590 kg/ha | 1,045 kg/ha | 2,366 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,038 kg/ha | 1,164 kg/ha | 2,773 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,222 kg/ha | 1,505 kg/ha | 3,265 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,125 kg/ha | 456.4 kg/ha | 3,203 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,920 kg/ha | 1,146 kg/ha | 2,531 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,466 kg/ha | 1,333 kg/ha | 3,844 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,351 kg/ha | 1,335 kg/ha | 3,600 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Israel
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.5 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0129 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 696.75 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.7021 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.0842 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.3% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Israel?
- Wheat — yield in Israel was 1,676 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Israel?
- The highest recorded value was 3,844 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Israel?
- The lowest recorded value was 456.4 kg/ha in 1999.
- How does Israel rank for wheat — yield?
- Israel ranks 97th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Israel?
- Over the last ten years it is down 26.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Israel 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.