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Report year 1966Data year 1966
Cereal yield (kg per hectare)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
63 reference years (1961–2023), covering 146 to 180 countries, from FAOSTAT via the World Bank’s indicator API (AG.YLD.CREL.KG). Kilograms of grain harvested per hectare. Unlike the land and sector shares beside it this one really is directional: getting more grain from the same ground is the definition of agricultural productivity, and it is how a growing population gets fed without clearing more forest. ⚠ The very top of the table is small territories farming a tiny, intensively worked area — not the world’s great grain producers, who sit lower and grow vastly more. ⚠ 2024 is not imported: only 79 countries had reported, one short of the floor. ⚠ These are not separate published reports — `restatedByReport` names the World Development Indicators release they were pulled from. ⚠ A statistic, not an index: no rank is published, so none is stored, and it is not in the Country Index; the POSITION shown on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score, and labelled as ours.
Cereal Yield 1966 — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Cite as: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAOSTAT. Rome: FAO.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Kilograms of cereal harvested per hectare, from FAOSTAT and served through the World Bank's indicator API (AG.YLD.CREL.KG). Unlike the sector shares beside it this one really is directional — getting more grain from the same land is the definition of agricultural productivity, and it is what feeds a growing population without clearing more forest. ⚠ The extreme top of the table is small territories farming a tiny intensively worked area, not the world's great grain producers. The FAO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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| Country | ISO Code | Cereal yield (kg per hectare) |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | JPN | 4,509.3 |
| Denmark | DNK | 3,714.4 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | EGY | 3,565.5 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 3,544.7 |
| Korea, Rep. | KOR | 3,537.0 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 3,521.3 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 3,513.6 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 3,500.0 |
| Suriname | SUR | 3,330.9 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 3,305.7 |
| Ireland | IRL | 3,270.0 |
| United States | USA | 3,016.7 |
| Austria | AUT | 2,940.6 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 2,930.6 |
| France | FRA | 2,908.1 |
| Germany | DEU | 2,878.0 |
| Korea, Dem. People's Rep. | PRK | 2,744.8 |
| Sweden | SWE | 2,543.8 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 2,524.9 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 2,500.0 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 2,424.2 |
| Hungary | HUN | 2,401.7 |
| Italy | ITA | 2,399.8 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 2,210.1 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 2,196.3 |
| Norway | NOR | 2,169.2 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 2,129.0 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 2,103.6 |
| Barbados | BRB | 2,075.0 |
| Romania | ROU | 2,037.9 |
| Guyana | GUY | 2,030.8 |
| New Caledonia | NCL | 1,973.3 |
| Canada | CAN | 1,972.7 |
| Chile | CHL | 1,897.4 |
| Poland | POL | 1,884.7 |
| China | CHN | 1,879.1 |
| Thailand | THA | 1,842.8 |
| Greece | GRC | 1,823.8 |
| Finland | FIN | 1,780.6 |
| Viet Nam | VNM | 1,762.0 |
| Hong Kong SAR, China | HKG | 1,756.3 |
| Nepal | NPL | 1,742.0 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 1,732.9 |
| Fiji | FJI | 1,726.3 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1,585.5 |
| Peru | PER | 1,574.9 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 1,570.8 |
| Argentina | ARG | 1,557.0 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 1,514.3 |
| Gabon | GAB | 1,512.8 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 1,500.0 |
| Puerto Rico (US) | PRI | 1,476.1 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | STP | 1,448.3 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 1,442.5 |
| Australia | AUS | 1,441.6 |
| Malta | MLT | 1,438.5 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 1,437.7 |
| Guinea | GIN | 1,392.6 |
| Brunei Darussalam | BRN | 1,392.2 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 1,380.2 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 1,362.6 |
| Spain | ESP | 1,327.6 |
| Brazil | BRA | 1,321.3 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 1,319.9 |
| Albania | ALB | 1,318.6 |
| Venezuela, RB | VEN | 1,308.3 |
| Colombia | COL | 1,301.4 |
| Mexico | MEX | 1,290.0 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 1,286.8 |
| Turkiye | TUR | 1,272.7 |
| Dominica | DMA | 1,250.0 |
| Timor-Leste | TLS | 1,240.7 |
| Honduras | HND | 1,211.6 |
| Cuba | CUB | 1,178.6 |
| Kenya | KEN | 1,139.9 |
| Oman | OMN | 1,133.3 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 1,130.9 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 1,106.1 |
| Ghana | GHA | 1,088.7 |
| Comoros | COM | 1,086.7 |
| Haiti | HTI | 1,075.8 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 1,070.0 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 1,067.2 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 1,065.8 |
| Philippines | PHL | 1,062.8 |
| Liberia | LBR | 1,060.2 |
| Israel | ISR | 1,052.7 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 1,050.3 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 1,013.1 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 1,012.3 |
| Gambia, The | GMB | 1,011.1 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 1,010.4 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 1,007.2 |
| Congo, Rep. | COG | 1,000.0 |
| Burundi | BDI | 975.8 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 937.8 |
| Panama | PAN | 935.7 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 923.5 |
| Maldives | MDV | 916.1 |
| Bahamas, The | BHS | 914.9 |
| Uganda | UGA | 908.9 |
| Malawi | MWI | 905.2 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 901.6 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | IRN | 883.6 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 878.0 |
| Uruguay | URY | 872.5 |
| Grenada | GRD | 871.0 |
| India | IND | 864.2 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | 840.7 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 840.0 |
| Angola | AGO | 824.3 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 821.0 |
| Lao PDR | LAO | 820.8 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 806.6 |
| Portugal | PRT | 804.4 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 799.3 |
| Mali | MLI | 787.3 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 780.2 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 778.9 |
| Yemen, Rep. | YEM | 777.0 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 760.2 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 752.4 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 741.0 |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | COD | 695.1 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 693.1 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 662.5 |
| Chad | TCD | 658.7 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | SYR | 618.4 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 607.8 |
| Sudan | SDN | 605.3 |
| Belize | BLZ | 550.9 |
| Benin | BEN | 531.8 |
| Senegal | SEN | 530.8 |
| Niger | NER | 496.2 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 495.4 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 487.2 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 471.4 |
| Morocco | MAR | 468.5 |
| Somalia, Fed. Rep. | SOM | 468.1 |
| Togo | TGO | 467.7 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 453.4 |
| Jordan | JOR | 446.3 |
| Botswana | BWA | 439.9 |
| Algeria | DZA | 403.9 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 369.3 |
| Namibia | NAM | 366.8 |
| Libya | LBY | 319.9 |