Wheat — Yield in Portugal
Portugal: Wheat — Yield was 3,374 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Portugal, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Portugal recorded 3,374 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 140.8% on the previous year and up 63.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Portugal peaked at 3,374 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 608.7 kg/ha, in 1966.
Portugal ranks 56th 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 Portugal, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 651.5 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 885.7 kg/ha | +35.9% |
| 1963 | 800.2 kg/ha | -9.7% |
| 1964 | 688.7 kg/ha | -13.9% |
| 1965 | 975 kg/ha | +41.6% |
| 1966 | 608.7 kg/ha | -37.6% |
| 1967 | 1,111 kg/ha | +82.6% |
| 1968 | 1,242 kg/ha | +11.8% |
| 1969 | 828.1 kg/ha | -33.4% |
| 1970 | 937.5 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 1971 | 1,570 kg/ha | +67.5% |
| 1972 | 1,214 kg/ha | -22.7% |
| 1973 | 1,206 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1974 | 1,176 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 1975 | 1,304 kg/ha | +10.8% |
| 1976 | 1,292 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1977 | 873.5 kg/ha | -32.4% |
| 1978 | 708.4 kg/ha | -18.9% |
| 1979 | 882.9 kg/ha | +24.6% |
| 1980 | 1,220 kg/ha | +38.2% |
| 1981 | 927.6 kg/ha | -24.0% |
| 1982 | 1,200 kg/ha | +29.4% |
| 1983 | 986.8 kg/ha | -17.8% |
| 1984 | 1,595 kg/ha | +61.7% |
| 1985 | 1,395 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 1986 | 1,581 kg/ha | +13.3% |
| 1987 | 1,647 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1988 | 1,377 kg/ha | -16.4% |
| 1989 | 1,913 kg/ha | +39.0% |
| 1990 | 1,427 kg/ha | -25.4% |
| 1991 | 2,098 kg/ha | +47.0% |
| 1992 | 1,291 kg/ha | -38.5% |
| 1993 | 1,686 kg/ha | +30.6% |
| 1994 | 1,967 kg/ha | +16.6% |
| 1995 | 1,387 kg/ha | -29.5% |
| 1996 | 1,714 kg/ha | +23.6% |
| 1997 | 1,190 kg/ha | -30.5% |
| 1998 | 1,015 kg/ha | -14.7% |
| 1999 | 1,599 kg/ha | +57.5% |
| 2000 | 1,568 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 2001 | 837.1 kg/ha | -46.6% |
| 2002 | 1,790 kg/ha | +113.9% |
| 2003 | 858.1 kg/ha | -52.1% |
| 2004 | 1,562 kg/ha | +82.1% |
| 2005 | 664.4 kg/ha | -57.5% |
| 2006 | 2,385 kg/ha | +258.9% |
| 2007 | 1,863 kg/ha | -21.9% |
| 2008 | 2,303 kg/ha | +23.6% |
| 2009 | 1,701 kg/ha | -26.1% |
| 2010 | 1,430 kg/ha | -15.9% |
| 2011 | 1,200 kg/ha | -16.1% |
| 2012 | 1,077 kg/ha | -10.3% |
| 2013 | 1,764 kg/ha | +63.8% |
| 2014 | 2,066 kg/ha | +17.1% |
| 2015 | 2,023 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 2016 | 2,356 kg/ha | +16.5% |
| 2017 | 2,054 kg/ha | -12.8% |
| 2018 | 2,594 kg/ha | +26.3% |
| 2019 | 2,701 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 2020 | 2,770 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2021 | 2,423 kg/ha | -12.5% |
| 2022 | 1,994 kg/ha | -17.7% |
| 2023 | 1,401 kg/ha | -29.7% |
| 2024 | 3,374 kg/ha | +140.8% |
Portugal compared with similar countries
- Portugal's 3,374 kg/ha is below the median for high income countries, which is 4,807 kg/ha, 70% of the median. (41 countries reporting)
- Portugal's 3,374 kg/ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 4,432 kg/ha, 76% of the median. (42 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Portugal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | +258.9% | 664.4 kg/ha | 2,385 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 865.73 kg/ha | 608.7 kg/ha | 1,242 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,117 kg/ha | 708.4 kg/ha | 1,570 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,384 kg/ha | 927.6 kg/ha | 1,913 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 1,537 kg/ha | 1,015 kg/ha | 2,098 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 1,553 kg/ha | 664.4 kg/ha | 2,385 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 1,927 kg/ha | 1,077 kg/ha | 2,701 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,393 kg/ha | 1,401 kg/ha | 3,374 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Portugal
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 7.28 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0196 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 628.85 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.5936 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.385 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 2.0% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 2.0% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Portugal?
- Wheat — yield in Portugal was 3,374 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The highest recorded value was 3,374 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The lowest recorded value was 608.7 kg/ha in 1966.
- How does Portugal rank for wheat — yield?
- Portugal ranks 56th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Portugal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 63.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Portugal 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.