Wheat — Yield in Japan
Japan: Wheat — Yield was 4,439 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Japan, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — yield in Japan is 4,439 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
The figure is down 6.0% on the previous year and up 10.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Japan peaked at 4,986 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 1,226 kg/ha, in 1963.
That places Japan 38th 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 Japan, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,746 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,540 kg/ha | -7.5% |
| 1963 | 1,226 kg/ha | -51.7% |
| 1964 | 2,448 kg/ha | +99.7% |
| 1965 | 2,704 kg/ha | +10.5% |
| 1966 | 2,431 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 1967 | 2,719 kg/ha | +11.9% |
| 1968 | 3,139 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 1969 | 2,645 kg/ha | -15.7% |
| 1970 | 2,066 kg/ha | -21.9% |
| 1971 | 2,648 kg/ha | +28.1% |
| 1972 | 2,497 kg/ha | -5.7% |
| 1973 | 2,701 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1974 | 2,798 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1975 | 2,686 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1976 | 2,496 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1977 | 2,749 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 1978 | 3,274 kg/ha | +19.1% |
| 1979 | 3,633 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1980 | 3,050 kg/ha | -16.1% |
| 1981 | 2,618 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 1982 | 3,256 kg/ha | +24.4% |
| 1983 | 3,031 kg/ha | -6.9% |
| 1984 | 3,193 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1985 | 3,736 kg/ha | +17.0% |
| 1986 | 3,567 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 1987 | 3,186 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 1988 | 3,621 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1989 | 3,469 kg/ha | -4.2% |
| 1990 | 3,654 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1991 | 3,180 kg/ha | -13.0% |
| 1992 | 3,537 kg/ha | +11.2% |
| 1993 | 3,474 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 1994 | 3,718 kg/ha | +7.0% |
| 1995 | 2,932 kg/ha | -21.1% |
| 1996 | 3,016 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1997 | 3,639 kg/ha | +20.6% |
| 1998 | 3,511 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1999 | 3,454 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2000 | 3,761 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 2001 | 3,555 kg/ha | -5.5% |
| 2002 | 4,001 kg/ha | +12.6% |
| 2003 | 4,034 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 4,047 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 4,097 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2006 | 3,835 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 2007 | 4,340 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 2008 | 4,220 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2009 | 3,237 kg/ha | -23.3% |
| 2010 | 2,761 kg/ha | -14.7% |
| 2011 | 3,529 kg/ha | +27.8% |
| 2012 | 4,100 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 2013 | 3,862 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 2014 | 4,009 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2015 | 4,711 kg/ha | +17.5% |
| 2016 | 3,688 kg/ha | -21.7% |
| 2017 | 4,271 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 2018 | 3,610 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 2019 | 4,901 kg/ha | +35.8% |
| 2020 | 4,465 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 2021 | 4,986 kg/ha | +11.7% |
| 2022 | 4,371 kg/ha | -12.3% |
| 2023 | 4,722 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2024 | 4,439 kg/ha | -6.0% |
Japan compared with similar countries
- Japan's 4,439 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 4,807 kg/ha, 92% of the median. (41 countries reporting)
- Japan's 4,439 kg/ha is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 2,033 kg/ha, 2.2× the median. (8 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Japan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | +99.7% | 1,226 kg/ha | 2,448 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,511 kg/ha | 1,226 kg/ha | 3,139 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,755 kg/ha | 2,066 kg/ha | 3,633 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,273 kg/ha | 2,618 kg/ha | 3,736 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,412 kg/ha | 2,932 kg/ha | 3,718 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,913 kg/ha | 3,237 kg/ha | 4,340 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,944 kg/ha | 2,761 kg/ha | 4,901 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,597 kg/ha | 4,371 kg/ha | 4,986 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Japan
More agriculture & rural data for Japan
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.95 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0096 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 323.87 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.89 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.077 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.0% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.0% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.6% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Japan?
- Wheat — yield in Japan was 4,439 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Japan?
- The highest recorded value was 4,986 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Japan?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,226 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Japan rank for wheat — yield?
- Japan ranks 38th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Japan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Japan 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 64 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO).
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.