Wheat — Yield in Malta
Malta: Wheat — Yield was 5,031 kg/ha in 2017. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Malta, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Malta recorded 5,031 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2017. That is the highest value across all 57 years on record.
The figure is up 1.0% on the previous year and up 17.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Malta peaked at 5,031 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 1,006 kg/ha, in 1968.
That places Malta 31st out of 124 countries with data for 2017, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 57 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Malta, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,375 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,375 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 1,600 kg/ha | +16.4% |
| 1964 | 1,479 kg/ha | -7.6% |
| 1965 | 1,602 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1966 | 1,503 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1967 | 1,432 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1968 | 1,006 kg/ha | -29.8% |
| 1969 | 1,380 kg/ha | +37.2% |
| 1970 | 1,486 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1971 | 2,109 kg/ha | +41.9% |
| 1972 | 2,289 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1973 | 2,300 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1974 | 1,839 kg/ha | -20.1% |
| 1975 | 2,203 kg/ha | +19.8% |
| 1976 | 2,778 kg/ha | +26.1% |
| 1977 | 3,444 kg/ha | +24.0% |
| 1978 | 2,806 kg/ha | -18.5% |
| 1979 | 2,726 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1980 | 3,487 kg/ha | +27.9% |
| 1981 | 3,910 kg/ha | +12.1% |
| 1982 | 4,332 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1983 | 3,970 kg/ha | -8.3% |
| 1984 | 3,650 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1985 | 3,771 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 1986 | 3,846 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 1987 | 3,692 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1988 | 3,615 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1989 | 3,750 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1990 | 3,834 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1991 | 3,643 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1992 | 3,438 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1993 | 2,900 kg/ha | -15.6% |
| 1994 | 2,727 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1995 | 2,625 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1996 | 3,818 kg/ha | +45.5% |
| 1997 | 4,107 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1998 | 3,916 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1999 | 3,958 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2000 | 4,013 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2001 | 4,000 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2002 | 5,000 kg/ha | +25.0% |
| 2003 | 4,000 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 2004 | 4,105 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2005 | 4,158 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2006 | 4,038 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2007 | 4,286 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 2008 | 4,833 kg/ha | +12.8% |
| 2009 | 4,929 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2010 | 4,801 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2011 | 4,769 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2012 | 4,744 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2013 | 4,778 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2014 | 4,878 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2015 | 4,992 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2016 | 4,983 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 5,031 kg/ha | +1.0% |
Malta compared with similar countries
- Malta's 5,031 kg/ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 4,807 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (41 countries reporting)
- Malta's 5,031 kg/ha is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 2,571 kg/ha, 2.0× the median. (19 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,417 kg/ha | 1,006 kg/ha | 1,602 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,398 kg/ha | 1,486 kg/ha | 3,444 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,802 kg/ha | 3,487 kg/ha | 4,332 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 3,497 kg/ha | 2,625 kg/ha | 4,107 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,336 kg/ha | 4,000 kg/ha | 5,000 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,872 kg/ha | 4,744 kg/ha | 5,031 kg/ha | 8 |
Countries ranked near Malta
More agriculture & rural data for Malta
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 6.05 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0047 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 224.75 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.3 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.0432 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 0.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 0.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Malta?
- Wheat — yield in Malta was 5,031 kg/ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Malta?
- The highest recorded value was 5,031 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Malta?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,006 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Malta rank for wheat — yield?
- Malta ranks 31st out of 124 countries with data for 2017.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Malta?
- Over the last ten years it is up 17.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malta 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.