Watermelons — Yield in China, mainland
China, mainland: Watermelons — Yield was 43,741 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Watermelons — Yield in China, mainland, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2024, watermelons — yield in China, mainland stood at 43,741 kg/ha. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.9% on the previous year and up 10.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, watermelons — yield in China, mainland peaked at 43,741 kg/ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 12,264 kg/ha, in 1961.
China, mainland ranks 22nd of 119 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Watermelons — Yield in China, mainland, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 12,264 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 12,302 kg/ha | +0.3% |
| 1963 | 12,652 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1964 | 12,561 kg/ha | -0.7% |
| 1965 | 13,171 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 1966 | 13,722 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1967 | 13,924 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 1968 | 15,200 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1969 | 15,733 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1970 | 16,642 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1971 | 16,793 kg/ha | +0.9% |
| 1972 | 15,815 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1973 | 15,900 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1974 | 16,621 kg/ha | +4.5% |
| 1975 | 16,600 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1976 | 16,600 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 16,581 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1978 | 15,714 kg/ha | -5.2% |
| 1979 | 15,809 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1980 | 15,313 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1981 | 16,397 kg/ha | +7.1% |
| 1982 | 14,778 kg/ha | -9.9% |
| 1983 | 16,000 kg/ha | +8.3% |
| 1984 | 15,933 kg/ha | -0.4% |
| 1985 | 16,808 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1986 | 16,894 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1987 | 16,870 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1988 | 17,047 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1989 | 17,714 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 1990 | 19,279 kg/ha | +8.8% |
| 1991 | 19,048 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 1992 | 20,286 kg/ha | +6.5% |
| 1993 | 19,540 kg/ha | -3.7% |
| 1994 | 20,094 kg/ha | +2.8% |
| 1995 | 21,416 kg/ha | +6.6% |
| 1996 | 24,438 kg/ha | +14.1% |
| 1997 | 32,912 kg/ha | +34.7% |
| 1998 | 26,990 kg/ha | -18.0% |
| 1999 | 32,481 kg/ha | +20.3% |
| 2000 | 31,665 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2001 | 31,376 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 2002 | 33,358 kg/ha | +6.3% |
| 2003 | 31,587 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 2004 | 34,647 kg/ha | +9.7% |
| 2005 | 35,078 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2006 | 35,288 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 2007 | 33,741 kg/ha | -4.4% |
| 2008 | 36,001 kg/ha | +6.7% |
| 2009 | 36,640 kg/ha | +1.8% |
| 2010 | 36,880 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2011 | 37,362 kg/ha | +1.3% |
| 2012 | 38,617 kg/ha | +3.4% |
| 2013 | 38,897 kg/ha | +0.7% |
| 2014 | 39,496 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2015 | 40,479 kg/ha | +2.5% |
| 2016 | 41,059 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2017 | 41,552 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 2018 | 40,540 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 2019 | 39,536 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2020 | 40,797 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 2021 | 41,770 kg/ha | +2.4% |
| 2022 | 42,445 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 2023 | 42,904 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2024 | 43,741 kg/ha | +1.9% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Watermelons — Yield in China, mainland changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | +34.7% | 24,438 kg/ha | 32,912 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13,503 kg/ha | 12,264 kg/ha | 15,733 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 16,307 kg/ha | 15,714 kg/ha | 16,793 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 16,375 kg/ha | 14,778 kg/ha | 17,714 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 23,648 kg/ha | 19,048 kg/ha | 32,912 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 33,938 kg/ha | 31,376 kg/ha | 36,640 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 39,442 kg/ha | 36,880 kg/ha | 41,552 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 42,331 kg/ha | 40,797 kg/ha | 43,741 kg/ha | 5 |
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More environment data for China, mainland
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.279 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.92 °C (2025)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 32.82 % (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 27.68 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 108,466 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.09 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Area 128,608 1000 ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Share in Land area 41.74 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 13.7 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is watermelons — yield in China, mainland?
- Watermelons — yield in China, mainland was 43,741 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest watermelons — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The highest recorded value was 43,741 kg/ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest watermelons — yield recorded in China, mainland?
- The lowest recorded value was 12,264 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does China, mainland rank for watermelons — yield?
- China, mainland ranks 22nd out of 119 countries with data for 2024.
- Is watermelons — yield rising or falling in China, mainland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this China, mainland 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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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.