Europe vs Japan: Yams — Yield
Yams — Yield over time
- Europe
- Japan
How they compare
Japan currently reports 25,231 kg/ha against 17,138 kg/ha in Europe, a difference of 8,093 kg/ha.
That makes Japan's figure about 1.5 times Europe's.
Across all 57 years both countries report, Japan has been ahead every year.
Europe ranks 4th and Japan ranks 2nd of 23 groups.
Japan has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Europe | Japan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,970 kg/ha | 17,678 kg/ha | 9,708 kg/ha | Japan |
| 1970s | 8,704 kg/ha | 18,204 kg/ha | 9,500 kg/ha | Japan |
| 1980s | 10,065 kg/ha | 18,221 kg/ha | 8,156 kg/ha | Japan |
| 1990s | 11,138 kg/ha | 19,780 kg/ha | 8,642 kg/ha | Japan |
| 2000s | 15,767 kg/ha | 21,955 kg/ha | 6,187 kg/ha | Japan |
| 2010s | 16,941 kg/ha | 22,078 kg/ha | 5,137 kg/ha | Japan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher yams — yield, Europe or Japan?
- Japan, at 25,231 kg/ha against 17,138 kg/ha in Europe as of 2024.
- What is the difference in yams — yield between Europe and Japan?
- 8,093 kg/ha, with Japan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Europe and Japan?
- 57 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2017.
- How do Europe and Japan rank globally for yams — yield?
- Europe ranks 4th and Japan ranks 2nd 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.