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World Vitals / Agricultural productivity

Crop Yields

Track crop yield indicators by country, crop, and year from agricultural statistics sources.

What this page shows

Crop yield pages should connect food supply, fertilizer use, climate impacts, and land pressure.

The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.

Database charts

Crop Yields over time and in context

These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.

World Bank

Cereal yields show farming productivity

Yield per hectare separates production gains from simply using more land.

4,243.52023

Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.

1,1962,8334,46919612023
20234,243.53 kg per hectareWorld Bank

World Bank

Cereal production shows staple-food scale

Production volume is useful beside yields because total supply depends on both productivity and area.

1.6B2024

Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.

551M2B3B19612024
20241.64B metric tonsWorld Bank

World Bank WDI

Fertilizer intensity and cereal yield move together

This paired view helps separate productivity gains from land expansion.

Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.

1,4642,9264,38734.4154Fertilizer consumption, kg per hectareCereal yield, kg per hectare19662022
2022Fertilizer consumption, kg per hectare: 134.222Cereal yield, kg per hectare: 4,185.51

World Bank WDI

Aquaculture rose while capture fisheries flattened

The paired path shows the structural shift inside global seafood supply.

Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.

068M137M26M102MCapture fisheries production, metric tonsAquaculture production, metric tons19602022
2022Capture fisheries production, metric tons: 87.99MAquaculture production, metric tons: 126.94M

Metric snapshots

Crop Yields latest values

Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.

Foodlatest snapshot

People facing hunger

673.00M
people2024latest snapshot

Approximate latest UN estimate of people affected by chronic undernourishment.

FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO / 2024

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