Wheat — Yield in Southern Asia
Southern Asia: Wheat — Yield was 3,318 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Southern Asia, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Southern Asia recorded 3,318 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.9% on the previous year and up 16.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Southern Asia peaked at 3,318 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 769.9 kg/ha, in 1964.
Southern Asia ranks 13th of 26 groups 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 Southern Asia, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 854.2 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 867.9 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1963 | 796.5 kg/ha | -8.2% |
| 1964 | 769.9 kg/ha | -3.3% |
| 1965 | 884.3 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 1966 | 812.8 kg/ha | -8.1% |
| 1967 | 875.4 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1968 | 1,041 kg/ha | +19.0% |
| 1969 | 1,085 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1970 | 1,111 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 1971 | 1,131 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 1972 | 1,207 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 1973 | 1,180 kg/ha | -2.3% |
| 1974 | 1,121 kg/ha | -5.0% |
| 1975 | 1,246 kg/ha | +11.1% |
| 1976 | 1,340 kg/ha | +7.6% |
| 1977 | 1,318 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1978 | 1,365 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1979 | 1,470 kg/ha | +7.7% |
| 1980 | 1,382 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1981 | 1,492 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1982 | 1,543 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 1983 | 1,637 kg/ha | +6.1% |
| 1984 | 1,643 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 1985 | 1,668 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1986 | 1,832 kg/ha | +9.8% |
| 1987 | 1,686 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 1988 | 1,756 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1989 | 1,913 kg/ha | +8.9% |
| 1990 | 1,871 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1991 | 1,994 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1992 | 2,098 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 1993 | 2,053 kg/ha | -2.1% |
| 1994 | 2,084 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1995 | 2,251 kg/ha | +8.0% |
| 1996 | 2,173 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1997 | 2,312 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 1998 | 2,287 kg/ha | -1.1% |
| 1999 | 2,346 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2000 | 2,468 kg/ha | +5.2% |
| 2001 | 2,405 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 2002 | 2,489 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2003 | 2,416 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 2004 | 2,494 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2005 | 2,457 kg/ha | -1.5% |
| 2006 | 2,440 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 2007 | 2,570 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2008 | 2,476 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 2009 | 2,633 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2010 | 2,585 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2011 | 2,659 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 2012 | 2,774 kg/ha | +4.3% |
| 2013 | 2,791 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 2,844 kg/ha | +1.9% |
| 2015 | 2,638 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 2016 | 2,857 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 2017 | 2,994 kg/ha | +4.8% |
| 2018 | 3,114 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2019 | 3,167 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2020 | 3,109 kg/ha | -1.8% |
| 2021 | 3,218 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2022 | 3,228 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 3,255 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2024 | 3,318 kg/ha | +1.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 887.44 kg/ha | 769.9 kg/ha | 1,085 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 1,249 kg/ha | 1,111 kg/ha | 1,470 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 1,655 kg/ha | 1,382 kg/ha | 1,913 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,147 kg/ha | 1,871 kg/ha | 2,346 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,485 kg/ha | 2,405 kg/ha | 2,633 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,842 kg/ha | 2,585 kg/ha | 3,167 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 3,225 kg/ha | 3,109 kg/ha | 3,318 kg/ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Southern Asia
- 10 Egypt 6,778 kg/ha compare
- 10 United Republic of Tanzania 1,376 kg/ha compare
- 11 Belgium 6,625 kg/ha compare
- 11 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1,201 kg/ha compare
- 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,125 kg/ha compare
- 12 Saudi Arabia 6,350 kg/ha compare
- 13 Sweden 6,169 kg/ha compare
- 13 Melanesia 673.2 kg/ha compare
- 14 Chile 6,002 kg/ha compare
- 15 France 5,974 kg/ha compare
- 16 Czechia 5,957 kg/ha compare
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- Edible offal of goat, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 7.03 % change on previous year (2024)
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- Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen — Producing 4.02 % change on previous year (2024)
- Edible offal of cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen — Production, annual 7.52 % change on previous year (2024)
- Chickens — Stocks, annual growth rate 4.81 % change on previous year (2024)
- Cattle fat, unrendered — Producing Animals/Slaughtered, annual growth 4.02 % change on previous year (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand) 2.18 % change on previous year (2024)
- Livestock — Gross Production Value (constant 2014-2016 thousand US$) 3.89 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Southern Asia?
- Wheat — yield in Southern Asia was 3,318 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Southern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 3,318 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Southern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 769.9 kg/ha in 1964.
- How does Southern Asia rank for wheat — yield?
- Southern Asia ranks 13th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Southern Asia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Southern Asia 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.