Wheat — Yield in New Caledonia
New Caledonia: Wheat — Yield was 673.2 kg/ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Wheat — Yield in New Caledonia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
New Caledonia 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 New Caledonia peaked at 3,350 kg/ha in 1973 and was at its lowest, 522.4 kg/ha, in 2018.
New Caledonia ranks 120th of 124 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 55 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in New Caledonia, 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% |
New Caledonia compared with similar countries
- New Caledonia's 673.2 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 4,807 kg/ha, 14% of the median. (41 countries reporting)
- New Caledonia's 673.2 kg/ha is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 2,033 kg/ha, 33% of the median. (8 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in New Caledonia 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 |
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More agriculture & rural data for New Caledonia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 9.8 % change on previous year (2017)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0179 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2019)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 596.77 current US$ per person (2019)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2271 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3183 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 1.8% (2019)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 1.8% (2019)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.4% (2015)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2015)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in New Caledonia?
- Wheat — yield in New Caledonia 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 New Caledonia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,350 kg/ha in 1973.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in New Caledonia?
- The lowest recorded value was 522.4 kg/ha in 2018.
- How does New Caledonia rank for wheat — yield?
- New Caledonia ranks 120th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in New Caledonia?
- Over the last ten years it is down 64.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this New Caledonia 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.