Wheat — Yield in Melanesia
Melanesia: Wheat — Yield was 673.2 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Wheat — Yield in Melanesia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Melanesia recorded 673.2 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.5% on the previous year and down 64.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Melanesia peaked at 3,350 kg/ha in 1973 and was at its lowest, 522.4 kg/ha, in 2018.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 55 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Melanesia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,500 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 2,500 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 3,000 kg/ha | +20.0% |
| 1968 | 2,688 kg/ha | -10.4% |
| 1969 | 2,900 kg/ha | +7.9% |
| 1970 | 2,857 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 1971 | 1,333 kg/ha | -53.3% |
| 1972 | 2,500 kg/ha | +87.5% |
| 1973 | 3,350 kg/ha | +34.0% |
| 1974 | 3,250 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 1975 | 3,000 kg/ha | -7.7% |
| 1976 | 2,000 kg/ha | -33.3% |
| 1977 | 2,000 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 2,222 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1979 | 1,207 kg/ha | -45.7% |
| 1980 | 1,064 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 1981 | 1,398 kg/ha | +31.4% |
| 1982 | 1,625 kg/ha | +16.2% |
| 1983 | 824.7 kg/ha | -49.2% |
| 1984 | 732.7 kg/ha | -11.2% |
| 1985 | 1,835 kg/ha | +150.4% |
| 1986 | 1,839 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 1987 | 1,500 kg/ha | -18.4% |
| 1988 | 1,320 kg/ha | -12.0% |
| 1989 | 1,130 kg/ha | -14.4% |
| 1990 | 731.7 kg/ha | -35.2% |
| 1991 | 1,381 kg/ha | +88.8% |
| 1992 | 2,027 kg/ha | +46.8% |
| 1993 | 1,852 kg/ha | -8.7% |
| 1994 | 1,957 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1995 | 1,940 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1996 | 1,873 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1997 | 1,889 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1998 | 1,975 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1999 | 1,750 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 2001 | 1,850 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 2003 | 1,900 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 2004 | 1,894 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 2005 | 1,893 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 1,915 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2013 | 1,919 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 702.2 kg/ha | -63.4% |
| 2016 | 654.3 kg/ha | -6.8% |
| 2017 | 601.7 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2018 | 522.4 kg/ha | -13.2% |
| 2019 | 592.8 kg/ha | +13.5% |
| 2020 | 557.3 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2021 | 584.6 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2022 | 667.8 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 2023 | 670.1 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 673.2 kg/ha | +0.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Melanesia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | +150.4% | 732.7 kg/ha | 1,835 kg/ha |
| 1991 | +88.8% | 731.7 kg/ha | 1,381 kg/ha |
| 1972 | +87.5% | 1,333 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,621 kg/ha | 2,500 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,372 kg/ha | 1,207 kg/ha | 3,350 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,327 kg/ha | 732.7 kg/ha | 1,839 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,738 kg/ha | 731.7 kg/ha | 2,027 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,884 kg/ha | 1,850 kg/ha | 1,900 kg/ha | 4 |
| 2010s | 986.83 kg/ha | 522.4 kg/ha | 1,919 kg/ha | 7 |
| 2020s | 630.6 kg/ha | 557.3 kg/ha | 673.2 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Melanesia
- 10 Egypt 6,778 kg/ha compare
- 10 United Republic of Tanzania 1,376 kg/ha compare
- 11 Belgium 6,625 kg/ha compare
- 11 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,201 kg/ha compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,125 kg/ha compare
- 12 Saudi Arabia 6,350 kg/ha compare
- 13 Sweden 6,169 kg/ha compare
- 14 Chile 6,002 kg/ha compare
- 15 France 5,974 kg/ha compare
- 16 Czechia 5,957 kg/ha compare
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- Raw milk of cattle — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -1.73 % change on previous year (2024)
- Potatoes — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand I$) -19.47 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant) 0.4201 % change on previous year (2024)
- Other fruits, n.e.c. — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 0.2146 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of sheep, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross Production Value 11.86 % change on previous year (2024)
- Meat of cattle with the bone, fresh or chilled (indigenous) — Gross -5.09 % change on previous year (2024)
- Hen eggs in shell, fresh — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) 1.11 % change on previous year (2024)
- Maize (corn) — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 21.3 % change on previous year (2024)
- Sugar Crops Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016) -12.17 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Melanesia?
- Wheat — yield in Melanesia was 673.2 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,350 kg/ha in 1973.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Melanesia?
- The lowest recorded value was 522.4 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does Melanesia rank for wheat — yield?
- Melanesia ranks 13th out of 14 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Melanesia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 64.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Melanesia 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.