Wheat — Yield in Northern Europe
Northern Europe: Wheat — Yield was 6,026 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Northern Europe, 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 Europe is 6,026 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.2% on the previous year and down 12.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Northern Europe peaked at 7,215 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 3,257 kg/ha, in 1961.
That places Northern Europe 2nd out of 31 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,585 kg/ha | 3,257 kg/ha | 3,894 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 4,370 kg/ha | 3,916 kg/ha | 4,919 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 6,052 kg/ha | 5,342 kg/ha | 7,166 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 6,494 kg/ha | 5,957 kg/ha | 6,934 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 6,569 kg/ha | 6,156 kg/ha | 6,969 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 6,412 kg/ha | 5,649 kg/ha | 7,215 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 6,318 kg/ha | 6,026 kg/ha | 6,828 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Northern Europe
- 1 New Zealand 10,014 kg/ha compare
- 2 Ireland 8,140 kg/ha compare
- 3 Belgium-Luxembourg 8,096 kg/ha compare
- 4 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 7,281 kg/ha compare
- 5 Zambia 7,090 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Northern Europe
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 0 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Production 179,846 t (2024)
- Tomatoes — Yield 105,418 kg/ha (2024)
- Tomatoes — Area harvested 1,706 ha (2024)
- Swine / pigs — Stocks 21.92 million An (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 0 ha (2024)
- Bananas — Production 0 t (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 0 ha (2024)
- Sheep and Goat Meat — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 17.74 million An (2024)
- Vegetables Primary — Area harvested 182,642 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Northern Europe?
- Wheat — yield in Northern Europe was 6,026 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Northern Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 7,215 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Northern Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,257 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Northern Europe rank for wheat — yield?
- Northern Europe ranks 2nd out of 31 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Northern Europe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Northern Europe 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.