Wheat — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs): Wheat — Yield was 2,928 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) stood at 2,928 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.2% on the previous year and up 15.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) peaked at 2,928 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 802.8 kg/ha, in 1963.
Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 17th of 26 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 835.3 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 917.9 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1963 | 802.8 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 1964 | 855 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1965 | 901.5 kg/ha | +5.4% |
| 1966 | 818.8 kg/ha | -9.2% |
| 1967 | 967.6 kg/ha | +18.2% |
| 1968 | 954.9 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1969 | 995.4 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1970 | 814.6 kg/ha | -18.2% |
| 1971 | 815.5 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1972 | 959.3 kg/ha | +17.6% |
| 1973 | 915 kg/ha | -4.6% |
| 1974 | 1,118 kg/ha | +22.2% |
| 1975 | 1,092 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1976 | 1,186 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1977 | 1,064 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 1978 | 1,158 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1979 | 1,120 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1980 | 1,344 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1981 | 1,380 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1982 | 1,263 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1983 | 1,313 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1984 | 1,169 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 1985 | 1,285 kg/ha | +9.9% |
| 1986 | 1,388 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1987 | 1,348 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1988 | 1,427 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1989 | 1,189 kg/ha | -16.6% |
| 1990 | 1,390 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 1991 | 1,393 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1992 | 1,613 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 1993 | 1,606 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1994 | 1,540 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1995 | 1,710 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1996 | 1,717 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1997 | 1,670 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 1998 | 1,896 kg/ha | +13.6% |
| 1999 | 1,687 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 2000 | 1,605 kg/ha | -4.9% |
| 2001 | 1,999 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 2002 | 2,344 kg/ha | +17.3% |
| 2003 | 2,241 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2004 | 2,213 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2005 | 2,360 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2006 | 2,294 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2007 | 2,386 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2008 | 2,043 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 2009 | 2,464 kg/ha | +20.6% |
| 2010 | 2,392 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2011 | 2,354 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 2012 | 2,505 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2013 | 2,625 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2014 | 2,526 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 2015 | 2,851 kg/ha | +12.9% |
| 2016 | 2,546 kg/ha | -10.7% |
| 2017 | 2,567 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2018 | 2,566 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 2,765 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 2020 | 2,707 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2021 | 2,588 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2022 | 2,782 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2023 | 2,893 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2024 | 2,928 kg/ha | +1.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 894.36 kg/ha | 802.8 kg/ha | 995.4 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,024 kg/ha | 814.6 kg/ha | 1,186 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,311 kg/ha | 1,169 kg/ha | 1,427 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,622 kg/ha | 1,390 kg/ha | 1,896 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,195 kg/ha | 1,605 kg/ha | 2,464 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,570 kg/ha | 2,354 kg/ha | 2,851 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,779 kg/ha | 2,588 kg/ha | 2,928 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Wheat — yield in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) was 2,928 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 2,928 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 802.8 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) rank for wheat — yield?
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) ranks 17th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 15.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 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.