Wheat — Yield in Palestine
Palestine: Wheat — Yield was 2,571 kg/ha in 2022. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Palestine, 1994–2022
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Palestine recorded 2,571 kg/ha for wheat — yield in 2022.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 15.8% on the previous year and up 28.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Palestine peaked at 3,055 kg/ha in 2021 and was at its lowest, 777.9 kg/ha, in 1999.
That places Palestine 82nd out of 124 countries with data for 2022, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 29 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Palestine, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1,119 kg/ha | — |
| 1995 | 1,915 kg/ha | +71.1% |
| 1996 | 1,836 kg/ha | -4.1% |
| 1997 | 1,515 kg/ha | -17.5% |
| 1998 | 1,744 kg/ha | +15.1% |
| 1999 | 777.9 kg/ha | -55.4% |
| 2000 | 2,466 kg/ha | +217.0% |
| 2001 | 1,212 kg/ha | -50.8% |
| 2002 | 2,419 kg/ha | +99.6% |
| 2003 | 2,075 kg/ha | -14.2% |
| 2004 | 2,116 kg/ha | +2.0% |
| 2005 | 2,090 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2006 | 1,868 kg/ha | -10.6% |
| 2007 | 1,967 kg/ha | +5.3% |
| 2008 | 1,387 kg/ha | -29.5% |
| 2009 | 1,364 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 2010 | 1,789 kg/ha | +31.2% |
| 2011 | 1,622 kg/ha | -9.4% |
| 2012 | 1,999 kg/ha | +23.3% |
| 2013 | 2,403 kg/ha | +20.2% |
| 2014 | 2,403 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1,983 kg/ha | -17.5% |
| 2016 | 2,572 kg/ha | +29.7% |
| 2017 | 2,236 kg/ha | -13.1% |
| 2018 | 2,367 kg/ha | +5.9% |
| 2019 | 2,246 kg/ha | -5.1% |
| 2020 | 2,269 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 3,055 kg/ha | +34.7% |
| 2022 | 2,571 kg/ha | -15.8% |
Palestine compared with similar countries
- Palestine's 2,571 kg/ha is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 2,768 kg/ha, 93% of the median. (25 countries reporting)
- Palestine's 2,571 kg/ha is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 2,571 kg/ha, 1.0× the median. (19 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Wheat — Yield in Palestine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | +217.0% | 777.9 kg/ha | 2,466 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1,484 kg/ha | 777.9 kg/ha | 1,915 kg/ha | 6 |
| 2000s | 1,896 kg/ha | 1,212 kg/ha | 2,466 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,162 kg/ha | 1,622 kg/ha | 2,572 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,632 kg/ha | 2,269 kg/ha | 3,055 kg/ha | 3 |
Countries ranked near Palestine
More agriculture & rural data for Palestine
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual -2.7 % change on previous year (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0552 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 167.17 current US$ per person (2024)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.2685 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.1262 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 5.5% (2024)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 5.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.8% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.5% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Palestine?
- Wheat — yield in Palestine was 2,571 kg/ha in 2022, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Palestine?
- The highest recorded value was 3,055 kg/ha in 2021.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Palestine?
- The lowest recorded value was 777.9 kg/ha in 1999.
- How does Palestine rank for wheat — yield?
- Palestine ranks 82nd out of 124 countries with data for 2022.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Palestine?
- Over the last ten years it is up 28.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Palestine 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.