Countries by wheat yield

Ireland had the highest wheat yield of 123 countries in 2017, at 10.17 tonnes per hectare. Somalia had the lowest, at 0.4 tonnes per hectare. The median was 2.81 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 3.52 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest10.17Ireland

Lowest0.4Somalia

Median2.81123 countries

World3.52History

Map of countries, 2017

Under 1.3
1.3 to 2.1
2.1 to 2.8
2.8 to 4
4 to 5.3
5.3 and over
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tonnes per hectare, 2017. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, yield, kg/ha (item 15, element 5412). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2017

tonnes per hectare. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, yield, kg/ha (item 15, element 5412). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2017 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2016
1	Ireland	10.17	+6.6%
2	New Zealand	9.86	+7.3%
3	Netherlands	9.09	+13.9%
4	Belgium	8.62	+27%
5	United Kingdom	8.28	+4.9%
6	Denmark	8.24	+14.4%
7	Germany	7.64	0%
8	France	7.25	+37.1%
9	Zambia	7.24	+9.7%
10	Sweden	6.99	+10.6%
11	Egypt	6.86	+3.4%
12	Saudi Arabia	6.43	+8.6%
13	Mali	6.23	-30.2%
14	Switzerland	6.09	+39.4%
15	Chile	6	-1.2%
16	Croatia	5.81	+2.7%
17	Czechia	5.67	-12.7%
18	China	5.48	+1.6%
19	Luxembourg	5.48	+8.1%
20	Hungary	5.43	+1.2%
21	Bulgaria	5.36	+12.8%
22	Namibia	5.31	+12.2%
23	Mexico	5.3	-0.8%
24	Norway	5.29	+14.1%
25	Slovenia	5.03	-3%
26	Malta Estimated	5.03	+1%
27	Romania	4.89	+23.9%
28	Poland	4.88	+6.5%
29	Austria	4.87	-22.1%
30	Lithuania	4.82	+10.5%
31	Latvia	4.79	+11.2%
32	Slovakia	4.74	-18.9%
33	Uzbekistan	4.32	-10.1%
34	Oman	4.28	0%
35	Japan	4.27	+15.8%
36	Estonia	4.2	+51.8%
37	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.17	-2.8%
38	Finland	4.13	+7.8%
39	Ukraine	4.11	-2.3%
40	Serbia	4.09	-15.6%
41	Albania	4.04	+3.5%
42	South Korea	4.03	+8.7%
43	Italy	3.86	-8.3%
44	Moldova	3.73	+7%
45	Belarus	3.65	+10.9%
46	Uruguay	3.52	-2.4%
47	Canada	3.38	-5.6%
48	Montenegro	3.21	+2%
49	India	3.2	+5.5%
50	Argentina	3.18	-3.8%
51	Bangladesh	3.16	+4.2%
52	Tajikistan	3.15	+2.1%
53	Kuwait	3.14	+4.8%
54	Russia	3.13	+16.4%
55	South Africa	3.12	-16.9%
56	United States	3.12	-12%
57	Lebanon	3.02	-4.2%
58	Pakistan	2.97	+7%
59	Azerbaijan	2.97	-2.6%
60	Greece	2.93	+1.2%
61	Iraq	2.84	-14.4%
62	Türkiye	2.81	+3.7%
63	Venezuela	2.8	-6.7%
64	Niger	2.75	+37.1%
65	North Macedonia	2.75	-28.5%
66	Sudan	2.69	+12.9%
67	Ethiopia	2.67	+6.8%
68	Nepal	2.55	+9.7%
69	Kyrgyzstan	2.41	-1.7%
70	Madagascar Estimated	2.4	+0.2%
71	Spain	2.33	-33.3%
72	Qatar	2.29	-0.5%
73	Iran	2.28	-7.4%
74	Brazil	2.28	-27.8%
75	Taiwan	2.25	+44.9%
76	Palestine Estimated	2.24	-13.1%
77	Georgia	2.21	-13.9%
78	Armenia	2.18	-32.8%
79	Mauritania Estimated	2.13	-1%
80	Guatemala Estimated	2.13	-0.1%
81	Morocco	2.1	+85.2%
82	Colombia	2.09	+31.4%
83	Portugal	2.05	-12.8%
84	Afghanistan	2.03	+2.7%
85	Paraguay	2	-9.1%
86	Chad	1.97	-1.6%
87	Australia	1.92	-26.5%
88	Cyprus	1.91	+132.3%
89	Myanmar	1.88	+58.8%
90	Eswatini Estimated	1.86	+1.2%
91	Bhutan	1.82	+8.9%
92	Turkmenistan	1.8	-2.1%
93	Zimbabwe	1.75	-7.7%
94	Nigeria	1.68	+67.8%
95	Tunisia	1.64	-10.2%
96	Israel	1.61	-58.1%
97	Syria	1.58	+10.6%
98	Uganda Estimated	1.56	-1.2%
99	Yemen	1.56	0%
100	Peru	1.51	-3.7%
101	Jordan	1.48	+14.7%
102	Cameroon Estimated	1.34	+0.3%
103	Lesotho	1.29	+117.9%
104	Ecuador	1.29	-15.3%
105	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	1.26	-2.3%
106	Kenya	1.26	-10.3%
107	Kazakhstan	1.24	+2.6%
108	Malawi	1.23	+10.4%
109	North Korea Estimated	1.2	-2.8%
110	Tanzania	1.18	+6.7%
111	Algeria	1.15	-2.8%
112	Mozambique	1.1	+0.9%
113	Thailand Estimated	1.07	+3.4%
114	Rwanda	1.02	+3.4%
115	Eritrea	1	0%
116	Angola Estimated	0.93	-1.6%
117	Bolivia	0.88	-38.3%
118	Mongolia	0.85	-35.1%
119	Libya Estimated	0.75	-0.8%
120	New Caledonia Estimated	0.6	-8%
121	Honduras Estimated	0.54	-0.2%
122	Burundi	0.4	+3.1%
123	Somalia Estimated	0.4	+0.2%

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Harvested production of wheat per hectare of area harvested, in tonnes per hectare. FAOSTAT publishes it in kilograms per hectare; Invokely divides by 1,000.

Area harvested, not area sown, so crop failures lower the area as well as the output. 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.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 2 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2017 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, yield, kg/ha (item 15, element 5412). 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.

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Ireland, with 10.17 tonnes per hectare in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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