Americas vs Benin: Yams — Yield
Yams — Yield over time
- Americas
- Benin
How they compare
Benin currently reports 16,021 kg/ha against 10,656 kg/ha in Americas, a difference of 5,365 kg/ha.
That makes Benin's figure about 1.5 times Americas's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Benin has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 10th and Benin ranks 11th of 23 groups.
Benin has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Benin | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,209 kg/ha | 9,146 kg/ha | 1,937 kg/ha | Benin |
| 1970s | 7,458 kg/ha | 9,943 kg/ha | 2,486 kg/ha | Benin |
| 1980s | 7,063 kg/ha | 9,723 kg/ha | 2,660 kg/ha | Benin |
| 1990s | 7,477 kg/ha | 10,909 kg/ha | 3,432 kg/ha | Benin |
| 2000s | 8,492 kg/ha | 12,123 kg/ha | 3,631 kg/ha | Benin |
| 2010s | 9,183 kg/ha | 14,173 kg/ha | 4,991 kg/ha | Benin |
| 2020s | 10,050 kg/ha | 13,230 kg/ha | 3,180 kg/ha | Benin |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher yams — yield, Americas or Benin?
- Benin, at 16,021 kg/ha against 10,656 kg/ha in Americas as of 2024.
- What is the difference in yams — yield between Americas and Benin?
- 5,365 kg/ha, with Benin ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Benin?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Benin rank globally for yams — yield?
- Americas ranks 10th and Benin ranks 11th of 23 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Yams — Yield. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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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.