Watermelons — Yield in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand: Watermelons — Yield was 47,355 kg/ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Watermelons — Yield in Australia and New Zealand, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, watermelons — yield in Australia and New Zealand stood at 47,355 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
That represents a change of up 2.7% on the previous year and up 22.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — yield in Australia and New Zealand peaked at 47,355 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 8,957 kg/ha, in 1971.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 17th of 131 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,011 kg/ha | 9,767 kg/ha | 10,269 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 10,844 kg/ha | 8,957 kg/ha | 11,808 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,424 kg/ha | 12,069 kg/ha | 15,847 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 16,982 kg/ha | 14,544 kg/ha | 19,688 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 26,420 kg/ha | 17,200 kg/ha | 33,036 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 38,088 kg/ha | 31,783 kg/ha | 42,984 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 45,557 kg/ha | 43,304 kg/ha | 47,355 kg/ha | 5 |
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More environment data for Australia and New Zealand
- Temperature change 1.39 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.335 °C (2025)
- Total fibre furnish — Production 4.99 million t (2024)
- Recovered paper — Production 2.98 million t (2024)
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 187.5 USD_PPP/ha (2024)
- Arable land — Area 31,787 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 1.01 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 4.06 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 8.64 % (2024)
- Cropland — Area 32,246 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — yield in Australia and New Zealand?
- Watermelons — yield in Australia and New Zealand was 47,355 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The highest recorded value was 47,355 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest watermelons — yield recorded in Australia and New Zealand?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,957 kg/ha in 1971.
- How does Australia and New Zealand rank for watermelons — yield?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 17th out of 131 countries with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — yield rising or falling in Australia and New Zealand?
- Over the last ten years it is up 22.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Australia and New Zealand data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Watermelons — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.