Wheat — Yield in Northern America
Northern America: Wheat — Yield was 3,417 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Northern America, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — yield in Northern America is 3,417 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
That represents a change of up 6.5% on the previous year and up 14.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Northern America peaked at 3,554 kg/ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 1,326 kg/ha, in 1961.
Northern America ranks 14th of 31 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,673 kg/ha | 1,326 kg/ha | 1,972 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,021 kg/ha | 1,746 kg/ha | 2,153 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,213 kg/ha | 1,892 kg/ha | 2,396 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,492 kg/ha | 2,286 kg/ha | 2,784 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,677 kg/ha | 2,189 kg/ha | 2,968 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 3,167 kg/ha | 2,917 kg/ha | 3,554 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,216 kg/ha | 2,774 kg/ha | 3,420 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern America
More agriculture & rural data for Northern America
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 175,300 t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 3,561 t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 334 ha (2024)
- Cabbages — Production 1.12 million t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Yield/Carcass Weight 98 kg/An (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Production 3.56 million t (2024)
- Fat of pigs — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 151.17 million An (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 88.89 million An (2024)
- Edible offal of pigs, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production 968,025 t (2024)
- Meat of pig with the bone, fresh or chilled — Producing 151.17 million An (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Northern America?
- Wheat — yield in Northern America was 3,417 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The highest recorded value was 3,554 kg/ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Northern America?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,326 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Northern America rank for wheat — yield?
- Northern America ranks 14th out of 31 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Northern America?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Northern America 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.