Wheat — Yield in Peru
Peru: Wheat — Yield was 1,778 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Peru, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — yield in Peru is 1,778 kg/ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.0% on the previous year and up 14.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Peru peaked at 1,778 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 830 kg/ha, in 1968.
Peru ranks 93rd of 124 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Peru, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1,001 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 992.6 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1963 | 1,016 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1964 | 958.8 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1965 | 958 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1966 | 925.3 kg/ha | -3.4% |
| 1967 | 952 kg/ha | +2.9% |
| 1968 | 830 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 1969 | 932.7 kg/ha | +12.4% |
| 1970 | 920.3 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 1971 | 882.3 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1972 | 890.1 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1973 | 901.1 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1974 | 924.1 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1975 | 945.3 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1976 | 952 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 1977 | 1,002 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1978 | 1,008 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1979 | 1,061 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 1980 | 939.4 kg/ha | -11.4% |
| 1981 | 1,022 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1982 | 1,060 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1983 | 947.4 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 1984 | 1,030 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 1985 | 1,139 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 1986 | 1,236 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 1987 | 1,276 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1988 | 1,323 kg/ha | +3.7% |
| 1989 | 1,355 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1990 | 1,085 kg/ha | -20.0% |
| 1991 | 855.3 kg/ha | -21.1% |
| 1992 | 1,330 kg/ha | +55.5% |
| 1993 | 1,481 kg/ha | +11.3% |
| 1994 | 1,242 kg/ha | -16.1% |
| 1995 | 1,264 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 1996 | 1,250 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1997 | 1,115 kg/ha | -10.8% |
| 1998 | 1,165 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1999 | 1,288 kg/ha | +10.6% |
| 2000 | 1,280 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2001 | 1,246 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2002 | 1,346 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 2003 | 1,378 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2004 | 1,387 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2005 | 1,344 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2006 | 1,336 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2007 | 1,256 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 2008 | 1,384 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2009 | 1,432 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2010 | 1,422 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 2011 | 1,472 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2012 | 1,489 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2013 | 1,498 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 1,555 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2015 | 1,553 kg/ha | -0.2% |
| 2016 | 1,562 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2017 | 1,505 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2018 | 1,540 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2019 | 1,562 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2020 | 1,633 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 2021 | 1,713 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2022 | 1,767 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2023 | 1,743 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 2024 | 1,778 kg/ha | +2.0% |
Peru compared with similar countries
- Peru's 1,778 kg/ha is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 2,753 kg/ha, 65% of the median. (29 countries reporting)
- Peru's 1,778 kg/ha is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 2,753 kg/ha, 65% of the median. (11 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Peru 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | +55.5% | 855.3 kg/ha | 1,330 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 951.81 kg/ha | 830 kg/ha | 1,016 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 948.57 kg/ha | 882.3 kg/ha | 1,061 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,133 kg/ha | 939.4 kg/ha | 1,355 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,208 kg/ha | 855.3 kg/ha | 1,481 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,339 kg/ha | 1,246 kg/ha | 1,432 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,516 kg/ha | 1,422 kg/ha | 1,562 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,727 kg/ha | 1,633 kg/ha | 1,778 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Peru
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 12.59 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0747 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 637.02 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.72 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.144 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 7.5% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 7.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.2% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Peru?
- Wheat — yield in Peru was 1,778 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Peru?
- The highest recorded value was 1,778 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Peru?
- The lowest recorded value was 830 kg/ha in 1968.
- How does Peru rank for wheat — yield?
- Peru ranks 93rd out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Peru?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Peru 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.