Wheat production in New Zealand

Wheat production in New Zealand was 464,602 tonnes in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. That is up 18.6% from 2023. That is the 63rd highest of 123 countries in 2024.

2024, tonnes464,602
Change on 2023+18.6%
Rank63rd of 123Countries ranked
Series high488,6142012
Series low134,9941989

Next release: Thursday, 31 December 2026, estimated by Invokely from past publication dates (low confidence), not announced by the publisher. Release calendar

Get an email when a new figure is out or this one is revised.
Keep it in a collection in your library.

Wheat production in New Zealand, 1961 to 2024

100K200K300K400K500K19611971198119912001201120241961: 253,349 tonnes1962: 213,233 tonnes1963: 249,188 tonnes1964: 273,990 tonnes1965: 250,320 tonnes1966: 291,778 tonnes1967: 347,760 tonnes1968: 442,334 tonnes1969: 458,642 tonnes1970: 287,212 tonnes1971: 325,646 tonnes1972: 388,663 tonnes1973: 376,111 tonnes1974: 214,582 tonnes1975: 179,874 tonnes1976: 388,178 tonnes1977: 354,035 tonnes1978: 328,756 tonnes1979: 295,028 tonnes1980: 305,768 tonnes1981: 325,723 tonnes1982: 292,052 tonnes1983: 300,825 tonnes1984: 314,556 tonnes1985: 309,591 tonnes1986: 379,700 tonnes1987: 336,823 tonnes1988: 205,984 tonnes1989: 134,994 tonnes1990: 188,042 tonnes1991: 180,690 tonnes1992: 191,039 tonnes1993: 219,414 tonnes1994: 241,853 tonnes1995: 245,173 tonnes1996: 277,014 tonnes1997: 317,000 tonnes1998: 302,100 tonnes1999: 320,000 tonnes2000: 326,000 tonnes2001: 364,000 tonnes2002: 301,499 tonnes2003: 318,916 tonnes2004: 255,860 tonnes2005: 318,947 tonnes2006: 261,798 tonnes2007: 344,434 tonnes2008: 343,350 tonnes2009: 403,463 tonnes2010: 444,890 tonnes2011: 383,262 tonnes2012: 488,614 tonnes2013: 447,799 tonnes2014: 413,497 tonnes2015: 413,533 tonnes2016: 459,349 tonnes2017: 405,182 tonnes2018: 371,027 tonnes2019: 398,092 tonnes2020: 453,749 tonnes2021: 422,831 tonnes2022: 402,557 tonnes2023: 391,615 tonnes2024: 464,602 tonnes100K200K300K400K500K19611983200520241961: 253,349 tonnes1962: 213,233 tonnes1963: 249,188 tonnes1964: 273,990 tonnes1965: 250,320 tonnes1966: 291,778 tonnes1967: 347,760 tonnes1968: 442,334 tonnes1969: 458,642 tonnes1970: 287,212 tonnes1971: 325,646 tonnes1972: 388,663 tonnes1973: 376,111 tonnes1974: 214,582 tonnes1975: 179,874 tonnes1976: 388,178 tonnes1977: 354,035 tonnes1978: 328,756 tonnes1979: 295,028 tonnes1980: 305,768 tonnes1981: 325,723 tonnes1982: 292,052 tonnes1983: 300,825 tonnes1984: 314,556 tonnes1985: 309,591 tonnes1986: 379,700 tonnes1987: 336,823 tonnes1988: 205,984 tonnes1989: 134,994 tonnes1990: 188,042 tonnes1991: 180,690 tonnes1992: 191,039 tonnes1993: 219,414 tonnes1994: 241,853 tonnes1995: 245,173 tonnes1996: 277,014 tonnes1997: 317,000 tonnes1998: 302,100 tonnes1999: 320,000 tonnes2000: 326,000 tonnes2001: 364,000 tonnes2002: 301,499 tonnes2003: 318,916 tonnes2004: 255,860 tonnes2005: 318,947 tonnes2006: 261,798 tonnes2007: 344,434 tonnes2008: 343,350 tonnes2009: 403,463 tonnes2010: 444,890 tonnes2011: 383,262 tonnes2012: 488,614 tonnes2013: 447,799 tonnes2014: 413,497 tonnes2015: 413,533 tonnes2016: 459,349 tonnes2017: 405,182 tonnes2018: 371,027 tonnes2019: 398,092 tonnes2020: 453,749 tonnes2021: 422,831 tonnes2022: 402,557 tonnes2023: 391,615 tonnes2024: 464,602 tonnes
tonnes. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510). Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2025-12-31.
All 64 values
Periodtonnes
2024464,602
2023391,615
2022402,557
2021422,831
2020453,749
2019398,092
2018371,027
2017405,182
2016459,349
2015413,533
2014413,497
2013447,799
2012488,614
2011383,262
2010444,890
2009403,463
2008343,350
2007344,434
2006261,798
2005318,947
2004255,860
2003318,916
2002301,499
2001364,000
2000326,000
1999320,000
1998302,100
1997317,000
1996277,014
1995245,173
1994241,853
1993219,414
1992191,039
1991180,690
1990188,042
1989134,994
1988205,984
1987336,823
1986379,700
1985309,591
1984314,556
1983300,825
1982292,052
1981325,723
1980305,768
1979295,028
1978328,756
1977354,035
1976388,178
1975179,874
1974214,582
1973376,111
1972388,663
1971325,646
1970287,212
1969458,642
1968442,334
1967347,760
1966291,778
1965250,320
1964273,990
1963249,188
1962213,233
1961253,349

New Zealand compared with nearby places

Afghanistan: 5,200,000 tonnesAlbania: 180,812 tonnesArmenia: 120,277 tonnesAngola: 37,301 tonnesArgentina: 18,510,280 tonnesAustria: 1,576,010 tonnesAustralia: 34,110,000 tonnesAzerbaijan: 1,901,046 tonnesBosnia and Herzegovina: 279,273 tonnesBangladesh: 1,172,242 tonnesBelgium: 1,090,040 tonnesBulgaria: 7,085,140 tonnesBurundi: 8,365 tonnesBolivia: 292,710 tonnesBrazil: 7,633,178 tonnesBhutan: 838 tonnesBotswana: 1,328 tonnesBelarus: 2,750,000 tonnesCanada: 35,938,839 tonnesDemocratic Republic of the Congo: 9,000 tonnesSwitzerland: 311,807 tonnesChile: 1,188,785 tonnesCameroon: 616 tonnesChina: 140,100,000 tonnesColombia: 4,636 tonnesCyprus: 21,050 tonnesCzechia: 4,625,370 tonnesGermany: 18,526,700 tonnesDenmark: 3,348,010 tonnesAlgeria: 3,000,000 tonnesEcuador: 7,323 tonnesEstonia: 744,750 tonnesEgypt: 9,400,000 tonnesEritrea: 25,000 tonnesSpain: 7,147,930 tonnesEthiopia: 6,185,341 tonnesFinland: 759,380 tonnesFrance: 26,606,940 tonnesUnited Kingdom: 11,146,000 tonnesGeorgia: 149,100 tonnesGreece: 1,209,310 tonnesGuatemala: 762 tonnesHonduras: 1,281 tonnesCroatia: 828,200 tonnesHungary: 5,272,960 tonnesIreland: 388,510 tonnesIsrael: 90,350 tonnesIndia: 113,292,368 tonnesIraq: 5,234,171 tonnesIran: 16,750,000 tonnesItaly: 6,213,210 tonnesJordan: 34,429 tonnesJapan: 1,029,000 tonnesKenya: 312,200 tonnesKyrgyzstan: 664,830 tonnesNorth Korea: 90,073 tonnesSouth Korea: 37,376 tonnesKuwait: 55 tonnesKazakhstan: 18,576,694 tonnesLebanon: 94,000 tonnesLesotho: 4,183 tonnesLithuania: 4,219,300 tonnesLuxembourg: 65,860 tonnesLatvia: 2,465,900 tonnesLibya: 90,000 tonnesMorocco: 2,441,670 tonnesMoldova: 1,194,779 tonnesMontenegro: 1,870 tonnesMadagascar: 1,000 tonnesNorth Macedonia: 229,309 tonnesMali: 40,788 tonnesMyanmar: 80,000 tonnesMongolia: 397,258 tonnesMauritania: 2,051 tonnesMalawi: 321 tonnesMexico: 2,648,378 tonnesMozambique: 5,000 tonnesNamibia: 18,328 tonnesNew Caledonia: 29 tonnesNiger: 6,803 tonnesNigeria: 43,927 tonnesNetherlands: 668,170 tonnesNorway: 230,000 tonnesNepal: 2,035,559 tonnesNew Zealand: 464,602 tonnesOman: 11,740 tonnesPeru: 203,522 tonnesPakistan: 31,814,444 tonnesPoland: 12,183,620 tonnesPortugal: 81,350 tonnesParaguay: 767,700 tonnesQatar: 21 tonnesRomania: 9,290,880 tonnesSerbia: 2,900,536 tonnesRussia: 82,588,000 tonnesRwanda: 16,417 tonnesSaudi Arabia: 820,393 tonnesSudan: 490,320 tonnesSweden: 2,930,600 tonnesSlovenia: 153,390 tonnesSlovakia: 1,907,940 tonnesSomalia: 1,063 tonnesSyria: 2,431,225 tonnesEswatini: 722 tonnesChad: 1,353 tonnesThailand: 1,320 tonnesTajikistan: 880,734 tonnesTurkmenistan: 1,330,000 tonnesTunisia: 1,150,000 tonnesTürkiye: 20,800,000 tonnesTaiwan: 5,000 tonnesTanzania: 119,000 tonnesUkraine: 22,441,110 tonnesUganda: 25,000 tonnesUnited States: 53,650,020 tonnesUruguay: 1,295,415 tonnesUzbekistan: 6,729,357 tonnesVenezuela: 1,015 tonnesYemen: 98,000 tonnesSouth Africa: 1,924,890 tonnesZambia: 198,886 tonnesZimbabwe: 540,000 tonnes
  • Under 1M
  • 1M to 2M
  • 2M to 7M
  • 7M and over
  • No data
Wheat production, 2024, tonnes. New Zealand is outlined. Same source and period for every area shown. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Rankings

Definition

Quantity of wheat grain (all wheat species, including spelt and durum) produced in the calendar year, in tonnes, as published in FAOSTAT's crops and livestock products domain. Countries report to FAO through its annual production questionnaire; FAO fills gaps with official publications and its own estimates.

FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.

Report a problem with this figure

How to cite

FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

Citation styles

The publisher is the author. Invokely is named only as the place the figures were read, where a style asks for it.

APA 7

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2025). Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510) (Wheat production, New Zealand, 1961 to 2024) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip

MLA 9

Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510), Wheat production, New Zealand, 1961 to 2024. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 31 Dec. 2025, https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/wheat-production/new-zealand. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2025. Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510). Wheat production, New Zealand, 1961 to 2024. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/wheat-production/new-zealand.

Harvard

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510), Wheat production, New Zealand, 1961 to 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/wheat-production/new-zealand (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{food_wheat_production_new_zealand_2024,
  author = {{Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations}},
  title = {{Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510): Wheat production, New Zealand, 1961 to 2024}},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/wheat-production/new-zealand. Publisher attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production\_Crops\_Livestock\_E\_All\_Data\_\%28Normalized\%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.},
}
RIS
TY  - DATA
AU  - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
TI  - Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510): Wheat production, New Zealand, 1961 to 2024
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/12/31
PB  - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
DB  - Invokely
UR  - https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip
L2  - https://invokely.ai/en/wheat-production/new-zealand
Y2  - 2026/10/12
N1  - Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/wheat-production/new-zealand.
N1  - Publisher attribution: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.
ER  - 
Embed this chart

Paste this code into a web page or a blog post. The chart shows the latest figures as they are published, with the source and a link back to this page.

Sites that read oEmbed links, such as WordPress, can show the chart when you paste the link to this page.

Use this data in your AI agent

Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:

What is the latest wheat production in New Zealand? Cite the source.
get_value {"indicator":"wheat_production","place":"nz"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/value?indicator=wheat_production&place=nz

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor in one step. The trial answers 25 calls a day without an account.

Questions

What is the wheat production in New Zealand?

Wheat production in New Zealand was 464,602 tonnes in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. That is up 18.6% from 2023. That is the 63rd highest of 123 countries in 2024.

Where does this figure come from?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, production, t (item 15, element 5510). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

What was the highest wheat production in New Zealand?

488,614 tonnes in 2012, the highest value since 1961 in this series.

Wheat production in other countries

Related statistics for New Zealand

All statistics for New Zealand | New Zealand in figures