Wheat — Yield in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Wheat — Yield was 4,863 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Zimbabwe, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, wheat — yield in Zimbabwe stood at 4,863 kg/ha.
The figure is up 5.0% on the previous year and up 119.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Zimbabwe peaked at 5,913 kg/ha in 1986 and was at its lowest, 1,467 kg/ha, in 1961.
Zimbabwe ranks 32nd of 133 countries on this measure, in the top 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 | 2,396 kg/ha | 1,467 kg/ha | 3,580 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,958 kg/ha | 3,533 kg/ha | 4,499 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 5,527 kg/ha | 4,972 kg/ha | 5,913 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 5,517 kg/ha | 5,036 kg/ha | 5,891 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,831 kg/ha | 3,000 kg/ha | 5,400 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,482 kg/ha | 1,754 kg/ha | 3,915 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,899 kg/ha | 4,633 kg/ha | 5,146 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Zimbabwe
- Agriculture share gdp 9.47 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 9.47 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.9% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.3% (2024)
- Rural population 59.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 10.09 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 9.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 4.85 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 325,400 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Zimbabwe?
- Wheat — yield in Zimbabwe was 4,863 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 5,913 kg/ha in 1986.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,467 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for wheat — yield?
- Zimbabwe ranks 32nd out of 133 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 119.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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.