Wheat — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Wheat — Yield was 2,649 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) stood at 2,649 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.7% on the previous year and up 15.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 2,649 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 815 kg/ha, in 1963.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 935.1 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 907.4 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1963 | 815 kg/ha | -10.2% |
| 1964 | 891.1 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1965 | 901.3 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 1966 | 843.9 kg/ha | -6.4% |
| 1967 | 982.9 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 1968 | 998.5 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1969 | 1,019 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1970 | 898.9 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1971 | 819.3 kg/ha | -8.9% |
| 1972 | 831.9 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1973 | 1,074 kg/ha | +29.1% |
| 1974 | 1,099 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1975 | 1,120 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1976 | 1,169 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 1977 | 1,137 kg/ha | -2.7% |
| 1978 | 1,173 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1979 | 1,178 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1980 | 1,275 kg/ha | +8.2% |
| 1981 | 1,303 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1982 | 1,272 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1983 | 1,386 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1984 | 1,363 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1985 | 1,365 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1986 | 1,289 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1987 | 1,374 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1988 | 1,297 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1989 | 1,318 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 1990 | 1,280 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1991 | 1,282 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1992 | 1,370 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 1993 | 1,290 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1994 | 1,241 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1995 | 1,342 kg/ha | +8.1% |
| 1996 | 1,364 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1997 | 1,479 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1998 | 1,541 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1999 | 1,441 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2000 | 1,269 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 2001 | 1,419 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 2002 | 1,678 kg/ha | +18.2% |
| 2003 | 1,637 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2004 | 1,569 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 2005 | 1,798 kg/ha | +14.5% |
| 2006 | 1,602 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 2007 | 1,848 kg/ha | +15.4% |
| 2008 | 1,599 kg/ha | -13.5% |
| 2009 | 1,878 kg/ha | +17.4% |
| 2010 | 1,938 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2011 | 1,813 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 2012 | 2,117 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 2013 | 2,228 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2014 | 2,292 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 2015 | 2,521 kg/ha | +10.0% |
| 2016 | 2,257 kg/ha | -10.5% |
| 2017 | 2,410 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2018 | 2,512 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2019 | 2,486 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2020 | 2,453 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2021 | 2,529 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2022 | 2,614 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2023 | 2,580 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2024 | 2,649 kg/ha | +2.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 921.6 kg/ha | 815 kg/ha | 1,019 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,050 kg/ha | 819.3 kg/ha | 1,178 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,324 kg/ha | 1,272 kg/ha | 1,386 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,363 kg/ha | 1,241 kg/ha | 1,541 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,630 kg/ha | 1,269 kg/ha | 1,878 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,257 kg/ha | 1,813 kg/ha | 2,521 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,565 kg/ha | 2,453 kg/ha | 2,649 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
- 2 Ireland 8,140 kg/ha compare
- 2 Republic of Moldova 3,244 kg/ha compare
- 3 Belgium-Luxembourg 8,096 kg/ha compare
- 3 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 3,078 kg/ha compare
- 4 Türkiye 3,004 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
- 6 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2,592 kg/ha compare
- 7 Namibia 7,066 kg/ha compare
- 7 Syrian Arab Republic 1,905 kg/ha compare
- 8 Denmark 7,040 kg/ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Wheat — yield in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 2,649 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 2,649 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 815 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for wheat — yield?
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 5th out of 14 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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.