Papua New Guinea vs Portugal: Yams — Yield

Papua New Guinea
17,544 kg/ha
in 2024
Portugal
17,138 kg/ha
in 2017
Papua New Guinea rank
8th
Portugal rank
10th

Yams — Yield over time

  • Papua New Guinea
  • Portugal
5.0k7.5k10.0k12.5k15.0k17.5k196119922024

How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 17,544 kg/ha against 17,138 kg/ha in Portugal, a difference of 406 kg/ha.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 57 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.

Papua New Guinea ranks 8th and Portugal ranks 10th of 61 countries.

Papua New Guinea has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Papua New Guinea Portugal Difference Ahead
1960s 16,310 kg/ha 7,970 kg/ha 8,340 kg/ha Papua New Guinea
1970s 16,438 kg/ha 8,704 kg/ha 7,733 kg/ha Papua New Guinea
1980s 17,263 kg/ha 10,065 kg/ha 7,198 kg/ha Papua New Guinea
1990s 17,546 kg/ha 11,138 kg/ha 6,408 kg/ha Papua New Guinea
2000s 16,910 kg/ha 15,767 kg/ha 1,143 kg/ha Papua New Guinea
2010s 17,447 kg/ha 16,941 kg/ha 505.77 kg/ha Papua New Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher yams — yield, Papua New Guinea or Portugal?
Papua New Guinea, at 17,544 kg/ha against 17,138 kg/ha in Portugal as of 2024.
What is the difference in yams — yield between Papua New Guinea and Portugal?
406 kg/ha, with Papua New Guinea ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Papua New Guinea and Portugal?
57 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2017.
How do Papua New Guinea and Portugal rank globally for yams — yield?
Papua New Guinea ranks 8th and Portugal ranks 10th of 61 countries.
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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Papua New Guinea vs Portugal: Yams — Yield. Statizoid, drawing on Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 25 August 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/yams-yield/papua-new-guinea/portugal/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/yams-yield/papua-new-guinea/portugal/">Papua New Guinea vs Portugal: Yams — Yield</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Yams — Yield
Unit
kg/ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
90 places, 4,922 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

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.