Wheat — Yield in Rwanda
Rwanda: Wheat — Yield was 1,272 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Rwanda, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Rwanda recorded 1,272 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
The figure is up 1.3% on the previous year and up 35.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Rwanda peaked at 1,272 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 395.3 kg/ha, in 1964.
That places Rwanda 111th out of 124 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Rwanda, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 786.9 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 799.7 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1963 | 802.6 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1964 | 395.3 kg/ha | -50.7% |
| 1965 | 849.6 kg/ha | +114.9% |
| 1966 | 800 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1967 | 800 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 849.5 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1969 | 849.9 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 900 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 1971 | 900.1 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 899.8 kg/ha | -0.0% |
| 1973 | 721.2 kg/ha | -19.8% |
| 1974 | 820 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 1975 | 842.4 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1976 | 835.1 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1977 | 856 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 1978 | 691.6 kg/ha | -19.2% |
| 1979 | 753.2 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1980 | 705.9 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 1981 | 771.3 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1982 | 910.8 kg/ha | +18.1% |
| 1983 | 846.2 kg/ha | -7.1% |
| 1984 | 837 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1985 | 998.8 kg/ha | +19.3% |
| 1986 | 1,035 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1987 | 922 kg/ha | -10.9% |
| 1988 | 1,067 kg/ha | +15.8% |
| 1989 | 1,156 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1990 | 1,181 kg/ha | +2.2% |
| 1991 | 892.9 kg/ha | -24.4% |
| 1992 | 893.6 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1993 | 880.8 kg/ha | -1.4% |
| 1994 | 914.7 kg/ha | +3.8% |
| 1995 | 1,044 kg/ha | +14.2% |
| 1996 | 1,136 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1997 | 955.7 kg/ha | -15.8% |
| 1998 | 726.3 kg/ha | -24.0% |
| 1999 | 697.4 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 2000 | 641.6 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2001 | 769.4 kg/ha | +19.9% |
| 2002 | 617.1 kg/ha | -19.8% |
| 2003 | 735.1 kg/ha | +19.1% |
| 2004 | 798.7 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 2005 | 908.3 kg/ha | +13.7% |
| 2006 | 851 kg/ha | -6.3% |
| 2007 | 894.8 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2008 | 908.4 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2009 | 925.5 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2010 | 939.2 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2011 | 965.9 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2012 | 956 kg/ha | -1.0% |
| 2013 | 921.5 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 2014 | 940.7 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2015 | 960.7 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 2016 | 982.7 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 2017 | 1,016 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2018 | 1,102 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 2019 | 1,185 kg/ha | +7.5% |
| 2020 | 1,041 kg/ha | -12.2% |
| 2021 | 1,039 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2022 | 1,159 kg/ha | +11.5% |
| 2023 | 1,256 kg/ha | +8.4% |
| 2024 | 1,272 kg/ha | +1.3% |
Rwanda compared with similar countries
- Rwanda's 1,272 kg/ha is below the median for low income countries, which is 1,628 kg/ha, 78% of the median. (15 countries reporting)
- Rwanda's 1,272 kg/ha is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 1,725 kg/ha, 74% of the median. (25 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Rwanda 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | +114.9% | 395.3 kg/ha | 849.6 kg/ha |
| 1964 | -50.7% | 802.6 kg/ha | 395.3 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 770.39 kg/ha | 395.3 kg/ha | 849.9 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 821.94 kg/ha | 691.6 kg/ha | 900.1 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 924.97 kg/ha | 705.9 kg/ha | 1,156 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 932.24 kg/ha | 697.4 kg/ha | 1,181 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 804.99 kg/ha | 617.1 kg/ha | 925.5 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 996.99 kg/ha | 921.5 kg/ha | 1,185 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 1,153 kg/ha | 1,039 kg/ha | 1,272 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Rwanda
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 5.79 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.203 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 228.16 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.6953 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0006 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.6909 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 20.3% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 20.3% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Rwanda?
- Wheat — yield in Rwanda was 1,272 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Rwanda?
- The highest recorded value was 1,272 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Rwanda?
- The lowest recorded value was 395.3 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does Rwanda rank for wheat — yield?
- Rwanda ranks 111th out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Rwanda?
- Over the last ten years it is up 35.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Rwanda 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.