Wheat — Yield in Nepal
Nepal: Wheat — Yield was 2,985 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Nepal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Nepal stood at 2,985 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.7% on the previous year and up 19.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Nepal peaked at 3,089 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 846.6 kg/ha, in 1971.
That places Nepal 69th out of 124 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Nepal, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,227 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,232 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1963 | 1,228 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1964 | 1,226 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 1965 | 1,260 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1966 | 1,246 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1967 | 1,262 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 1968 | 1,066 kg/ha | -15.5% |
| 1969 | 1,120 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1970 | 1,173 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 1971 | 846.6 kg/ha | -27.8% |
| 1972 | 933.2 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 1973 | 1,204 kg/ha | +29.1% |
| 1974 | 1,126 kg/ha | -6.5% |
| 1975 | 1,138 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1976 | 1,178 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1977 | 1,039 kg/ha | -11.8% |
| 1978 | 1,120 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1979 | 1,166 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1980 | 1,199 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1981 | 1,218 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1982 | 1,315 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1983 | 1,357 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1984 | 1,343 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 1985 | 1,181 kg/ha | -12.1% |
| 1986 | 1,239 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1987 | 1,309 kg/ha | +5.7% |
| 1988 | 1,248 kg/ha | -4.7% |
| 1989 | 1,385 kg/ha | +11.0% |
| 1990 | 1,415 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1991 | 1,410 kg/ha | -0.3% |
| 1992 | 1,334 kg/ha | -5.4% |
| 1993 | 1,246 kg/ha | -6.6% |
| 1994 | 1,470 kg/ha | +18.0% |
| 1995 | 1,442 kg/ha | -2.0% |
| 1996 | 1,550 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 1997 | 1,607 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1998 | 1,546 kg/ha | -3.8% |
| 1999 | 1,696 kg/ha | +9.6% |
| 2000 | 1,793 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 2001 | 1,806 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 1,886 kg/ha | +4.4% |
| 2003 | 2,009 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 2004 | 2,087 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2005 | 2,134 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2006 | 2,074 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2007 | 2,156 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2008 | 2,225 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2009 | 1,934 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 2010 | 2,129 kg/ha | +10.1% |
| 2011 | 2,275 kg/ha | +6.8% |
| 2012 | 2,412 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2013 | 2,290 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2014 | 2,496 kg/ha | +9.0% |
| 2015 | 2,591 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 2016 | 2,329 kg/ha | -10.1% |
| 2017 | 2,554 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 2018 | 2,757 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2019 | 2,849 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2020 | 3,089 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2021 | 2,992 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2022 | 2,991 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 2023 | 3,007 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 2,985 kg/ha | -0.7% |
Nepal compared with similar countries
- Nepal's 2,985 kg/ha is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,768 kg/ha, 1.1× the median. (25 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,207 kg/ha | 1,066 kg/ha | 1,262 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,092 kg/ha | 846.6 kg/ha | 1,204 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,279 kg/ha | 1,181 kg/ha | 1,385 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,472 kg/ha | 1,246 kg/ha | 1,696 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,011 kg/ha | 1,793 kg/ha | 2,225 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,468 kg/ha | 2,129 kg/ha | 2,849 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,013 kg/ha | 2,985 kg/ha | 3,089 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Nepal
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.5 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.2156 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 331.1 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -0.7937 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0002 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.33 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 21.6% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 21.6% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.6% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Nepal?
- Wheat — yield in Nepal was 2,985 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Nepal?
- The highest recorded value was 3,089 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Nepal?
- The lowest recorded value was 846.6 kg/ha in 1971.
- How does Nepal rank for wheat — yield?
- Nepal ranks 69th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Nepal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nepal 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.