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title: "Cereal yield: North Korea data | Save North Korea"
description: "Cereal yield: Tonnes of grain harvested per hectare of farmland. Interactive chart, table and CSV download, with source and date."
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# Cereal yield

### Cereal yield

Tonnes of grain harvested per hectare of farmland.

**Source:** [Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025), via Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cereal-yield) (CC BY 4.0)  ·  Data downloaded 2026-10-05, source updated 2026-02-25

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## About this data

Latest

North Korea: 3.61 tonnes per hectare (2024)

License

CC BY 4.0

How to cite

Save North Korea (2026). “Cereal yield”. Data from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025), via Our World in Data. https://savenorthkorea.org/data/cereal-yield

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