Wheat — Yield in Myanmar
Myanmar: Wheat — Yield was 1,454 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Myanmar, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — yield in Myanmar is 1,454 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 5.5% on the previous year and down 21.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Myanmar peaked at 1,883 kg/ha in 2017 and was at its lowest, 307.8 kg/ha, in 1961.
Myanmar ranks 106th of 124 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Myanmar, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 307.8 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 412.4 kg/ha | +34.0% |
| 1963 | 558.2 kg/ha | +35.4% |
| 1964 | 676.2 kg/ha | +21.1% |
| 1965 | 644.5 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1966 | 634.4 kg/ha | -1.6% |
| 1967 | 497.9 kg/ha | -21.5% |
| 1968 | 576.3 kg/ha | +15.7% |
| 1969 | 468.4 kg/ha | -18.7% |
| 1970 | 555 kg/ha | +18.5% |
| 1971 | 624.3 kg/ha | +12.5% |
| 1972 | 549.9 kg/ha | -11.9% |
| 1973 | 547.9 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1974 | 455.5 kg/ha | -16.9% |
| 1975 | 745.2 kg/ha | +63.6% |
| 1976 | 652.6 kg/ha | -12.4% |
| 1977 | 878.3 kg/ha | +34.6% |
| 1978 | 1,026 kg/ha | +16.8% |
| 1979 | 503.7 kg/ha | -50.9% |
| 1980 | 1,106 kg/ha | +119.7% |
| 1981 | 1,110 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1982 | 1,334 kg/ha | +20.2% |
| 1983 | 1,263 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1984 | 1,594 kg/ha | +26.2% |
| 1985 | 1,743 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1986 | 1,713 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1987 | 1,730 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1988 | 1,310 kg/ha | -24.3% |
| 1989 | 1,074 kg/ha | -18.0% |
| 1990 | 954.4 kg/ha | -11.1% |
| 1991 | 957.9 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1992 | 938.9 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1993 | 933.4 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1994 | 820.9 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1995 | 842.4 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1996 | 946.3 kg/ha | +12.3% |
| 1997 | 1,033 kg/ha | +9.1% |
| 1998 | 959.2 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1999 | 1,096 kg/ha | +14.3% |
| 2000 | 1,149 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2001 | 1,190 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2002 | 1,268 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2003 | 1,287 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2004 | 1,394 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2005 | 1,393 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2006 | 1,526 kg/ha | +9.5% |
| 2007 | 1,579 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2008 | 1,712 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2009 | 1,730 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2010 | 1,782 kg/ha | +3.0% |
| 2011 | 1,778 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2012 | 1,784 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 1,808 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2014 | 1,847 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 2015 | 1,862 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2016 | 1,186 kg/ha | -36.3% |
| 2017 | 1,883 kg/ha | +58.8% |
| 2018 | 1,873 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2019 | 1,880 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2020 | 1,863 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2021 | 1,862 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,846 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2023 | 1,379 kg/ha | -25.3% |
| 2024 | 1,454 kg/ha | +5.5% |
Myanmar compared with similar countries
- Myanmar's 1,454 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,768 kg/ha, 53% of the median. (25 countries reporting)
- Myanmar's 1,454 kg/ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 2,033 kg/ha, 72% of the median. (8 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Myanmar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | +119.7% | 503.7 kg/ha | 1,106 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 530.68 kg/ha | 307.8 kg/ha | 676.2 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 653.8 kg/ha | 455.5 kg/ha | 1,026 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,398 kg/ha | 1,074 kg/ha | 1,743 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 948.21 kg/ha | 820.9 kg/ha | 1,096 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,423 kg/ha | 1,149 kg/ha | 1,730 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,768 kg/ha | 1,186 kg/ha | 1,883 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,681 kg/ha | 1,379 kg/ha | 1,863 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Myanmar
More agriculture & rural data for Myanmar
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 10.26 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.253 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 376.69 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.4495 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0005 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6942 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 25.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 25.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 3.3% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Myanmar?
- Wheat — yield in Myanmar was 1,454 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Myanmar?
- The highest recorded value was 1,883 kg/ha in 2017.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Myanmar?
- The lowest recorded value was 307.8 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Myanmar rank for wheat — yield?
- Myanmar ranks 106th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Myanmar?
- Over the last ten years it is down 21.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Myanmar 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.