Americas vs Melanesia: Yams — Yield
Yams — Yield over time
- Americas
- Melanesia
How they compare
Melanesia currently reports 15,303 kg/ha against 10,656 kg/ha in Americas, a difference of 4,647 kg/ha.
That makes Melanesia's figure about 1.4 times Americas's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Melanesia has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 10th and Melanesia ranks 13th of 23 groups.
Melanesia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,209 kg/ha | 12,843 kg/ha | 5,634 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 1970s | 7,458 kg/ha | 13,591 kg/ha | 6,133 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 1980s | 7,063 kg/ha | 14,127 kg/ha | 7,065 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 1990s | 7,477 kg/ha | 14,210 kg/ha | 6,733 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 2000s | 8,492 kg/ha | 14,206 kg/ha | 5,714 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 2010s | 9,183 kg/ha | 15,194 kg/ha | 6,011 kg/ha | Melanesia |
| 2020s | 10,050 kg/ha | 15,149 kg/ha | 5,098 kg/ha | Melanesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher yams — yield, Americas or Melanesia?
- Melanesia, at 15,303 kg/ha against 10,656 kg/ha in Americas as of 2024.
- What is the difference in yams — yield between Americas and Melanesia?
- 4,647 kg/ha, with Melanesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Melanesia?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
- How do Americas and Melanesia rank globally for yams — yield?
- Americas ranks 10th and Melanesia ranks 13th 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.