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.
That places Melanesia 128th out of 133 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 55 years of available data.
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
More agriculture & rural data for Melanesia
- Fat of pigs — Production 6,015 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Production 89,605 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 41 kg/An (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 532 ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 4,250 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 374.22 t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 2.18 million An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 2.18 million An (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 504 ha (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 128th out of 133 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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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.