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Cereal Yield

63 years, 1961–2023 · 179 countries

Cereal yield is how much grain a country harvests from each hectare it plants, in kilograms. It is the cleanest single measure of farm productivity there is — and it is how a growing population gets fed without clearing more forest.

This site holds every year from 1961 to 2023, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Cereal Yield · the file

Newest
Cereal Yield, 2023
Held
63 years · 10,264 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

0163 years

Every year

Every year comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

1961bar height: countries covered, up to 1802023
Every year of Cereal Yield held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Cereal Yield, 2023Newest179±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2022179±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2021179±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2020179±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2019179±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2018179−1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2017180±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2016180±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2015180+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2014179±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2013179±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2012179+1September 6, 2026CSV
Show all 63 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Cereal Yield, 2011178±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2010178±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2009178±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2008178±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2007178+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2006177+2 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2005176±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2004176±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2003176±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2002176±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2001176±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 2000176+2September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1999174±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1998174±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1997174+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1996173±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1995173±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1994173+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1993172+3September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1992169+19September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1991150+1 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1990150+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1989149±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1988149±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1987149−1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1986150±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1985150±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1984150±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1983150±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1982150±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1981150+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1980149−1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1979150±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1978150±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1977150+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1976149±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1975149±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1974149±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1973149±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1972149±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1971149+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1970148±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1969148±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1968148+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1967147±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1966147+1September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1965146±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1964146±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1963146±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1962146±0September 6, 2026CSV
Cereal Yield, 1961146—September 6, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: cereal-yield-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Cereal Yield: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2023DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1790
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1790
Cereal yield (kg per hectare)cereal_yieldHeadlineThe headline figure: Cereal yield (kg per hectare).Number · up to 1 decimal23.0Cabo Verde29,147.0Omanmiddle 3,071.71790

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03181 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Cereal Yield, by continent.
201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Africa525252525252525252525252
Americas343434343434343434343434
Asia474747474747474747474747
Europe383838393939383838383838
Oceania888888888888
All179179179180180180179179179179179179

The newest 12 of 63 years.

Who joined and who left

Not in this dataset · 44 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaArubaBahrainBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoEquatorial GuineaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMonacoMontserratNauruNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSamoaSan MarinoSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanTongaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

    fao.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Cereal Yield 2023

    AG.YLD.CREL.KG

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    63 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as cereal-yield-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/cereal-yieldA key for Food & Agriculture in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From FAOSTAT via the World Bank’s indicator API (AG.YLD.CREL.KG). 2024 is not imported: only 79 countries had reported, one short of the floor this site sets.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 6, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Cereal Yield, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Cereal Yield, 1961–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cereal-yield

The publisher’s own citation: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAOSTAT. Rome: FAO.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Cereal Yield: questions and answers

What is the Cereal Yield?

Cereal yield is how much grain a country harvests from each hectare it plants, in kilograms. It is the cleanest single measure of farm productivity there is — and it is how a growing population gets fed without clearing more forest.

Which years of the Cereal Yield can I download?

All 63, from 1961 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does FAO rank countries on it?

No. FAO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.

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