Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Congo
Congo: Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. was 8,381 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Congo, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
In 2024, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Congo stood at 8,381 ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 4.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Congo peaked at 8,463 ha in 2016 and was at its lowest, 2,900 ha, in 1961.
Congo ranks 16th of 74 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Congo, year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 2,900 ha | — |
| 1962 | 2,900 ha | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 3,000 ha | +3.4% |
| 1964 | 3,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 3,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 3,100 ha | +3.3% |
| 1967 | 3,100 ha | +0.0% |
| 1968 | 3,200 ha | +3.2% |
| 1969 | 3,200 ha | +0.0% |
| 1970 | 3,300 ha | +3.1% |
| 1971 | 3,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 3,400 ha | +3.0% |
| 1973 | 3,500 ha | +2.9% |
| 1974 | 3,600 ha | +2.9% |
| 1975 | 3,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 3,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 3,600 ha | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 3,300 ha | -8.3% |
| 1979 | 3,300 ha | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 3,400 ha | +3.0% |
| 1981 | 3,400 ha | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 3,500 ha | +2.9% |
| 1983 | 3,600 ha | +2.9% |
| 1984 | 3,700 ha | +2.8% |
| 1985 | 3,800 ha | +2.7% |
| 1986 | 3,900 ha | +2.6% |
| 1987 | 4,000 ha | +2.6% |
| 1988 | 4,100 ha | +2.5% |
| 1989 | 4,300 ha | +4.9% |
| 1990 | 4,400 ha | +2.3% |
| 1991 | 4,300 ha | -2.3% |
| 1992 | 4,500 ha | +4.7% |
| 1993 | 4,600 ha | +2.2% |
| 1994 | 4,800 ha | +4.3% |
| 1995 | 5,000 ha | +4.2% |
| 1996 | 5,200 ha | +4.0% |
| 1997 | 5,000 ha | -3.8% |
| 1998 | 4,690 ha | -6.2% |
| 1999 | 4,400 ha | -6.2% |
| 2000 | 4,451 ha | +1.2% |
| 2001 | 4,563 ha | +2.5% |
| 2002 | 4,700 ha | +3.0% |
| 2003 | 4,860 ha | +3.4% |
| 2004 | 4,961 ha | +2.1% |
| 2005 | 5,000 ha | +0.8% |
| 2006 | 4,897 ha | -2.1% |
| 2007 | 4,700 ha | -4.0% |
| 2008 | 5,000 ha | +6.4% |
| 2009 | 5,995 ha | +19.9% |
| 2010 | 7,000 ha | +16.8% |
| 2011 | 7,430 ha | +6.1% |
| 2012 | 8,000 ha | +7.7% |
| 2013 | 8,000 ha | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 7,992 ha | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 8,227 ha | +2.9% |
| 2016 | 8,463 ha | +2.9% |
| 2017 | 8,227 ha | -2.8% |
| 2018 | 8,131 ha | -1.2% |
| 2019 | 8,071 ha | -0.7% |
| 2020 | 8,029 ha | -0.5% |
| 2021 | 8,236 ha | +2.6% |
| 2022 | 8,280 ha | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 8,331 ha | +0.6% |
| 2024 | 8,381 ha | +0.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 3,044 ha | 2,900 ha | 3,200 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 3,450 ha | 3,300 ha | 3,600 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 3,770 ha | 3,400 ha | 4,300 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 4,689 ha | 4,300 ha | 5,200 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 4,913 ha | 4,451 ha | 5,995 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 7,954 ha | 7,000 ha | 8,463 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 8,251 ha | 8,029 ha | 8,381 ha | 5 |
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- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 11.08 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1011 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 254.21 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 1.72 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.3588 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 10.1% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 10.1% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 2.4% (2023)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Congo?
- Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. in Congo was 8,381 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Congo?
- The highest recorded value was 8,463 ha in 2016.
- What is the lowest edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. recorded in Congo?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,900 ha in 1961.
- How does Congo rank for edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c.?
- Congo ranks 16th out of 74 countries with data for 2024.
- Is edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c. rising or falling in Congo?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Congo data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Edible roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, n.e.c., fresh — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.