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 15th of 31 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.
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
More agriculture & rural data for Southern Asia
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Area harvested 522,889 ha (2024)
- Unmanufactured tobacco — Production 1.04 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Production 39.26 million t (2024)
- Bananas — Area harvested 1.07 million ha (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Producing Animals/Slaughtered 8.11 million 1000 An (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Area harvested 9.90 million ha (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Yield 15,262 kg/ha (2024)
- Fruit Primary — Production 151.12 million t (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Yield/Carcass Weight 1,293 g/An (2024)
- Meat, Poultry — Production 10.48 million t (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 15th out of 31 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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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.