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 117th out of 133 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.
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 |
Countries ranked near Rwanda
- 114 United Republic of Tanzania 1,376 kg/ha compare
- 115 Ethiopia PDR 1,350 kg/ha compare
- 116 Cameroon 1,337 kg/ha compare
- 118 Mongolia 1,250 kg/ha compare
- 119 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,201 kg/ha compare
- 120 Botswana 1,144 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Rwanda
- Agriculture share gdp 20.3 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 20.3 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2022)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.9% (2022)
- Rural population 69.1% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.7% (2025)
- Rural population 10.07 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 20.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.32 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 2.44 million t (2024)
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 117th out of 133 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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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.