Countries by wheat yield

New Zealand had the highest wheat yield of 122 countries in 2023, at 9.67 tonnes per hectare. Malawi had the lowest, at 0.19 tonnes per hectare. The median was 2.98 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 3.63 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest9.67New Zealand

Lowest0.19Malawi

Median2.98122 countries

World3.63History

Map of countries, 2023

Under 1.3
1.3 to 2.2
2.2 to 3
3 to 4
4 to 5.6
5.6 and over
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tonnes per hectare, 2023. 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, 2023

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	2023 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2022
1	New Zealand	9.67	+3%
2	Ireland	8.66	-17%
3	Netherlands	8.47	-9.9%
4	Belgium	8.42	-7%
5	United Kingdom	8.13	-5.4%
6	Zambia	7.59	+8.5%
7	Germany	7.43	-1.9%
8	Denmark	7.27	-13.2%
9	France	7.2	+2.9%
10	Egypt	6.78	+1.2%
11	Czechia	6.44	+6%
12	Saudi Arabia	6.26	-8%
13	Mexico	6.2	+2.4%
14	Austria	6.19	+6.8%
15	Slovakia	6.12	+23.1%
16	Chile	5.95	+1%
17	Namibia	5.81	+7.3%
18	Luxembourg	5.8	-8.3%
19	China	5.78	-1.3%
20	Hungary	5.64	+26.8%
21	Mali	5.63	+22.4%
22	Bulgaria	5.61	+5.1%
23	Sweden	5.45	-22%
24	Poland	5.28	+0.8%
25	Uzbekistan	5.27	+5.6%
26	Switzerland	5.14	-6%
27	Slovenia	5.07	-7.4%
28	Serbia	5.05	+2.6%
29	Uruguay	5.04	+18.5%
30	Croatia	4.83	-19.6%
31	Lithuania	4.74	+0.1%
32	Japan	4.72	+8%
33	Ukraine	4.64	+18.3%
34	Zimbabwe Estimated	4.63	-10%
35	Kuwait Estimated	4.5	+12.5%
36	South Korea	4.47	+6.7%
37	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.31	-21.1%
38	Romania	4.15	+3.7%
39	Moldova	4.13	+60.2%
40	Latvia	4.07	-13.9%
41	Albania	4.05	-5.6%
42	Estonia	4	-15.3%
43	South Africa	3.81	+2.4%
44	Belarus Estimated	3.7	+1.5%
45	Italy	3.69	-0.8%
46	India	3.52	-0.5%
47	Bangladesh	3.49	+1.3%
48	Guatemala Estimated	3.45	-26.9%
49	Azerbaijan	3.3	+6.1%
50	United States	3.27	+4.6%
51	Finland	3.27	-15%
52	Russia Estimated	3.22	-9.2%
53	Türkiye	3.22	+7.6%
54	Niger	3.2	+9%
55	Tajikistan	3.13	-9.2%
56	Canada	3.12	-9.5%
57	Pakistan	3.12	+6.8%
58	Venezuela	3.11	+20.4%
59	North Macedonia	3.09	-3.4%
60	Nepal	3.01	+0.5%
61	Qatar	3	+66.7%
62	Kenya	2.96	-3.9%
63	Greece	2.92	+0.1%
64	Lebanon	2.87	+0.1%
65	Colombia	2.86	+1.4%
66	Argentina	2.84	+24.3%
67	Israel	2.84	-21%
68	Ethiopia Estimated	2.81	-5.6%
69	Montenegro	2.79	+1.8%
70	Norway	2.67	-47.7%
71	Australia	2.67	-16.3%
72	Georgia	2.64	-7.4%
73	Oman	2.63	+30.8%
74	Iraq	2.55	-8.1%
75	Iran Estimated	2.53	+4.1%
76	Armenia	2.53	+3.1%
77	Madagascar Estimated	2.4	+0.1%
78	Sudan	2.34	-7.3%
79	Brazil	2.32	-28.9%
80	Syria	2.31	+76%
81	Jordan	2.2	+16.5%
82	Mauritania Estimated	2.19	+0.5%
83	Paraguay	2.16	-3.7%
84	Afghanistan	2.15	+5.1%
85	Spain	2.07	-31%
86	Taiwan	2	-33.3%
87	Cyprus	2	-14.4%
88	Chad	1.93	+3.5%
89	Kyrgyzstan	1.91	-24.8%
90	Eswatini Estimated	1.86	-0.1%
91	Peru	1.74	-1.4%
92	Morocco	1.71	+53.7%
93	Uganda	1.67	0%
94	Turkmenistan Estimated	1.66	-3.5%
95	Nigeria Estimated	1.59	-27.3%
96	Yemen Estimated	1.54	-0.5%
97	Tanzania Estimated	1.44	+31.1%
98	Tunisia	1.43	-27.1%
99	Portugal	1.4	-29.7%
100	Algeria	1.39	-16.7%
101	Myanmar	1.38	-25.3%
102	Cameroon Estimated	1.34	-0%
103	Mongolia	1.32	+17.6%
104	Bolivia	1.27	-12.3%
105	Rwanda	1.26	+8.4%
106	North Korea Estimated	1.23	-0.1%
107	Angola	1.16	+96.9%
108	Bhutan	1.15	+6.5%
109	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.13	0%
110	Thailand Estimated	1.02	-0.3%
111	Botswana	1.01	-54.2%
112	Eritrea	1	0%
112	Mozambique	1	0%
114	Ecuador	0.99	-41.7%
115	Kazakhstan	0.92	-27.5%
116	Libya Estimated	0.76	-0.7%
117	Burundi Estimated	0.73	-0.2%
118	New Caledonia Estimated	0.67	+0.3%
119	Lesotho	0.59	-27.5%
120	Honduras Estimated	0.53	+0.9%
121	Somalia Estimated	0.4	+0.2%
122	Malawi Estimated	0.19	+16.6%

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About this ranking

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. 3 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2023 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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Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Wheat, yield, kg/ha (item 15, element 5412), Countries by wheat yield, 2023. 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/rankings/wheat-yield/countries?period=2023. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Malawi, with 0.19 tonnes per hectare in 2023.

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